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The Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has approved the assumption of insured deposits of Western Community Bank, Corona, California, by Bank of San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California. Western Community, with total assets of $60.6 million and total deposits of $54.8 million in about 5,500 accounts as of May 31, was closed today by James E. Gilleran, California Banking Superintendent, and the FDIC was named receiver. The failed bank's money-desk deposits, which totaled about $10 million, will be paid out up to the $100,000 federal insurance limit. Of the failed bank's three offices, only the Corona office on 321 E. 6th. St. will reopen as a branch of Bank of San Bernardino. Customers of the remaining two offices in Norco and Ontario will have access to their accounts at the reopened Corona office beginning Monday, August 1, 1994, during regular business hours. The failed bank's depositors will automatically become depositors of the assuming bank. Customers of the failed bank's money desk will have their deposits, up to the federal $100,000 insurance limit, mailed to them beginning Saturday, July 30, 1994. Bank of San Bernardino will assume approximately $38.6 million in about 5,500 deposit accounts. At the time the bank failed, roughly $6.2 million in 54 accounts exceeded the $100,000 federal insurance limit and will not be assumed by Bank of San Bernardino. The FDIC Board of Directors also voted to make a prompt advance payment to uninsured depositors equal to 50 percent of uninsured claims. Uninsured depositors can call an FDIC claims agent at (909) 734-4110 beginning Saturday, July 30, 1994, to arrange payment. The assuming bank will pay a premium of $673,000 for the right to receive the failed bank's deposits and will purchase $16.0 million of the failed bank's assets. The Board of Directors approved the deposit assumption under its authority to do so whenever it determines that such a transaction will reduce the potential loss to the FDIC. The FDIC notes that its claim on recoveries from the sale of the failed bank's assets will have priority over non-depositor creditors of the failed bank.