2019-00777. Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies

The companies listed in this notice have applied to the Board for approval, pursuant to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) (BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR part 225), and all other applicable statutes and regulations to become a bank holding company and/or to acquire the assets or the ownership of, control of, or the power to vote shares of a bank or bank holding company and all of the banks and nonbanking companies owned by the bank holding company, including the companies listed below.

The applications listed below, as well as other related filings required by the Board, are available for immediate inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank indicated. The applications will also be available for inspection at the offices of the Board of Governors. Interested persons may express their views in writing on the standards enumerated in the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the proposal also involves the acquisition of a nonbanking company, the review also includes whether the acquisition of the nonbanking company complies with the standards in section 4 of the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise noted, nonbanking activities will be conducted throughout the United States.

Unless otherwise noted, comments regarding each of these applications must be received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the offices of the Board of Governors not later than March 4, 2019.

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (William Spaniel, Senior Vice President) 100 North 6th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19105-1521. Comments can also be sent electronically to [e-mail]:

1. Dime Community Bancshares, Inc., Brooklyn, NY; to become a bank holding company upon the conversion of Dime Community Bank, Brooklyn, NY, from a state-charted savings bank to a state chartered commercial bank.

B. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Kathryn Haney, Assistant Vice President) 1000 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30309. Comments can also be sent electronically to [e-mail]:

1. NB Holdings, LLC, Huntsville, Alabama; to acquire voting shares of Citizens Bancorporation, Inc., Valley Head, Alabama, and thereby indirectly acquire shares of Citizens Bank of Valley Head, Valley Head, Alabama.

C. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (Robert L. Triplett III, Senior Vice President) 2200 North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201-2272:

1. Spirit of Texas Bancshares, Inc., Conroe, Texas; to acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of First Beeville Financial Corporation, and thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of The First National Bank of Beeville, both of Beeville, Texas.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, January 29, 2019.

Yao-Chin Chao,

Assistant Secretary of the Board.