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June 8, 2011 the Honorable Mary L. Schapiro Chairman Securities And June 8, 2011 The Honorable Mary L. Schapiro Chairman Securities and Exchange Commission 100 F Street NE Washington, DC 20549 Dear Chairman Schapiro: We the undersigned bankers, representing banks of all charter types, sizes, and geographies, and from every State in the Union, write to express our deep and continuing concern about the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposal for the registration of municipal advisors. We believe the proposal goes well beyond what is required either by the statute or the problems that the statute was written to solve. In doing so not only would it subject banks to yet one more layer of regulation for the same activities, but it would increase the cost and reduce the availability of financial services for local municipal governments and other municipal operations, including municipal hospitals, housing authorities, and school districts, among others. As proposed, the rule would label as “municipal advisors” banks and many bank employees providing essential and traditional bank services to their local municipalities, including day-to-day deposit, cash management, custody, trustee and lending services – a result we do not believe furthers any legitimate policy goal and, as a recent letter from House Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus explained, is not what Congress intended. If finalized in its proposed form, the rule would result in tens of thousands of bank and banker registrations, major new compliance costs, along with additional, redundant layers of multiple rules by the SEC and Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) for the very same products and services for which we are already comprehensively supervised by the prudential banking regulators. We draw your attention particularly to the impact on our local municipalities. While we are all deeply involved in the life and activities of our communities, the unavoidable effects of the proposal would interfere with our ability to offer the services that we are accustomed to providing and upon which our municipalities rely. One example is symptomatic of others: the MSRB has proposed as part of its accompanying rule that an advisor could not provide products as a principal to a municipality it is advising. This blanket prohibition would prevent a bank from offering any deposit products to a municipality that it, or an affiliate, advises. It is hard to overestimate the hardship this one provision may cause for our local municipalities. We renew our recommendation that the rule state clearly that banks and bankers providing traditional banking products and services are not required to register as municipal advisors. Further, banks should be granted the same exemption from municipal advisor registration as registered investment advisers are for comparable advisory activities. No supervisory gap would be created by this approach: the prudential banking regulators today comprehensively supervise and examine banks with respect to all of their activities to all types of customers, including municipalities. Thank you for your attention to this important matter. Respectfully, Leslie R. Andersen Gary D. Hemmer Bank of Bennington First National Bank of Waterloo Bennington, NE Waterloo, IL Stephen P. Wilson Albert C. Kelly, Jr. Bernard H. Wright, Jr. Kelley Sanders LCNB National Bank SpiritBank Lebanon, OH Bristow, OK Steven C. 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