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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Contact: Dean DeBuck |
June 28, 2006
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(202) 874-5770
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WASHINGTON -- The
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency today issued a proclamation allowing
national bank offices affected by severe weather in the northeast to close at
their discretion.
In issuing the
proclamation, Timothy Long, Senior Deputy Comptroller for Mid-Size/Community
Bank Supervision, said he expects that only those bank offices directly
affected by the severe weather will close.
Those offices should make every effort to reopen as quickly as possible
to address the banking needs of their customers, he added.
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The Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency was created by Congress to charter national banks,
to oversee a nationwide system of banking institutions, and to assure that
national banks are safe and sound, competitive and profitable, and capable of
serving in the best possible manner the banking needs of their customers.
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