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COMMUNITY BANK AND TRUST

From: DHoward000@aol.com [mailto:DHoward000@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 3:03 PM
To: Comments; psmith@aba.com
Subject: RIN No. 3064-AC50

Rye: RIN Number 3064-AC50: FDIC Proposed Increase in Threshold
for the Small Bank CRA Streamlined Examination

I am Duncan Howard, a director of the Community Bank and Trust in Waco, Texas, which has assets of $270,000,000. I strongly support the FDIC’s proposal to raise the threshold for the streamlined small bank CRA examination to $1 billion without regard to the size of the bank’s holding company. This would ease the current regulatory requirement placed on small banks that are required to meet the standards imposed on the nation’s largest $1 trillion banks. Community banks would, of course, remain required to assist the credit needs of their entire communities and would be so evaluated by their regulator.

In addition, I support including of a community development criterion in the small bank examination for larger community banks. I feel the FDIC should adopt its original $500 million threshold without a Community Development criterion and that the new Community Development criterion should be applied only to banks greater than $500 million up to $1 billion. As FDIC examiners realize, it is difficult for small banks in rural communities, to locate regional or statewide investments that will benefit the bank’s own community, as intended by Congress

I and certainly, I oppose making the CD criterion a separate test from the banks overall CRA evaluation. This would create an undesirable impression that CD lending is a different lending in the community. A combination of CD lending and services to assist community lending would enhance the small bank CRA streamlined examination,

I appreciate and support the FDIC’s proposal to change the definition of Community Development from only low level and moderate income residents to include rural residents. This will discourage small rural banks from investing in regional housing bonds for an urban area separate from the bank’s community.

Sincerely,
Duncan Howard

Last Updated 10/14/2004 regs@fdic.gov

Last Updated: August 4, 2024