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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
12 CFR Part 225
[Regulation Y; Docket No. R-1091]
Bank Holding Companies and Change in Bank Control
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of the Under Secretary for Domestic Finance
12 CFR 1501
RIN 1505-AA84
Financial Subsidiaries
AGENCIES: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Department
of the Treasury.
ACTION: Joint proposed rule; extension of comment period.
SUMMARY: On January 3, 2001, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System and the Department of the Treasury (collectively, the “Agencies”) published
for public comment a joint proposal that would permit financial holding companies
and financial subsidiaries of national banks to engage in real estate brokerage and
real estate management. The Agencies are extending the comment period on the
proposal.
DATES: Comments must be received by May 1, 2001.
ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to docket number R-1091 and should be
mailed to Ms. Jennifer J. Johnson, Secretary, Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System, 20th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
20551 (or mailed electronically to regs.comments@federalreserve.gov) and to Real
Estate Brokerage and Management Regulation, Office of Financial Institution
Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Room
SC 37, Washington, D.C. 20220 (or mailed electronically to
financial.institutions@do.treas.gov). Comments addressed to Ms. Johnson also

-2may be delivered to the Board’s mailroom between 8:45 a.m. and 5:15 p.m. and,
outside those hours, to the Board’s security control room. Both the mailroom and
the security control room are accessible from the Eccles Building courtyard
entrance, located on 20th Street between Constitution Avenue and C Street, N.W.
Members of the public may inspect comments in room MP-500 of the Martin
Building between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays. Comments addressed to the
Treasury Department may also be delivered to the Treasury Department mail room
between the hours of 8:45 a.m. and 5:15 p.m. at the 15th Street entrance to the
Treasury Building.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Board of Governors: Scott G. Alvarez, Associate General Counsel (202/4523583), or Mark E. Van Der Weide, Counsel (202/452-2263), Legal Division, Board
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 20th Street and Constitution Avenue,
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20551.
Department of the Treasury: Gerry Hughes, Senior Financial Analyst
(202/622-2740); Roberta K. McInerney, Assistant General Counsel (Banking and
Finance) (202/622-0480); or Gary W. Sutton, Senior Banking Counsel (202/6220480).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
On January 3, 2001, the Agencies published a joint proposal to seek
comment on whether to permit financial holding companies and financial
subsidiaries of national banks to engage in real estate brokerage and real estate
management (66 FR 307). The proposal stated that any comments on the proposal
must be received by the Agencies by March 2, 2001.
In response to the solicitation of comments, the Agencies have received a
substantial number of comments, including requests to extend the comment period.
Given the wide public interest in the proposal and the desire of the Agencies to give
the public sufficient time to consider the proposal, the Agencies have decided to
extend the comment period on the proposal through May 1, 2001.
By order of the Board of Governors, February 21, 2001.

-3(Signed) Jennifer J. Johnson
________________________________
Jennifer J. Johnson,
Secretary of the Board.

Dated: February 20, 2001
(Signed) Donald V. Hammond
________________________________
Donald V. Hammond
Acting Under Secretary for Domestic Finance
Department of the Treasury.