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FED ER AL RESERVE BANK
OF NEW YORK
Fiscal Agent of the United States
r C ircular No. 6943 1

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M ay 22, 1972

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TREASURY TAX AND LOAN D EPO SITA RIES
— Groups A, B, and C Reclassified as of Ju n e 20, 1972
— New Basis for F u tu re A nnual Reclassification
To A ll Treasury T a x and Loan Depositaries
in the Second Federal Reserve D istrict:

The Treasury Department has authorized and requested this Bank to reclassify the Treasury Tax
and Loan Depositaries in this District into Groups A, B, and C as of June 20, 1972, upon the basis of
the total deposits credited to tax and loan accounts during the period April 1 through December 31,
1971, exclusive of payments for subscriptions to Government securities and redeposits with Group
C banks. Accordingly, depositaries that made a total of such deposits in this period in the amounts
indicated below will be grouped as follows:
Group A— Less than $5,000,000.
Group B— (1) $5,000,000 or more, but less than $50,000,000, and
(2) $50,000,000 or more, but less than $100,000,000, in the
case of depositaries whose total deposit liability (demand and
time) was less than $100,000,000 as of December 31, 1971.
Group C— (1) $100,000,000 or more, and
(2) $50,000,000 or more, but less than $100,000,000, in the
case of depositaries whose total deposit liability (demand and
time) was $100,000,000 or more as of December 31, 1971.
The new groupings will be continued until further notice, regardless of any subsequent increase or
decrease in tax and loan deposit levels of any depositary. Any depositary whose group classification
will change on June 20, 1972 will be so notified in a letter accompanying this circular.
The Treasury Department has informed us that in this reclassification it sought to establish a
line of demarcation for the Group C category that would capture an optimum in money flow while at
the same time holding the number of such banks to a practical minimum. These objectives will result
in an increase in the total number of Group C banks in all Federal Reserve Districts from 102 to 274,
from which about 70 percent of the total Treasury Tax and Loan money flow could be called with the
minimum advance notice. In this District, the number of Group C banks will increase from 19 to 47.
The changes made by the Treasury Department in the Groups A and B categories are largely the result
of the updating of account activity and achieve, to some extent, the practical objective of transferring
the smallest Group B banks into the Group A category.
The Treasury Department has also informed us that in the future it proposes to reclassify the
depositaries annually on the basis of all credits to tax and loan accounts, exclusive of redeposits
with Group C banks. In 1973, however, the Treasury plans to reclassify depositaries on the basis
of total credits, exclusive of payments for subscriptions to Government securities and redeposits
with Group C banks, for the first six months of 1972, plus total credits, exclusive of redeposits
with Group C banks, for the last six months of 1972. Reclassifications in 1974 and subsequent
years will be based on total credits, exclusive of redeposits with Group C banks, for the previous
calendar year.




A l f r e d H ay es,

President.