Exceptions granted by appropriate Federal banking agency
Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the appropriate Federal banking agency may grant such temporary and limited exceptions from the minimum actual thrift investment percentage requirement contained in such paragraph as the appropriate Federal banking agency deems necessary if—
(A) the appropriate Federal banking agency determines that extraordinary circumstances exist, such as when the effects of high interest rates reduce mortgage demand to such a degree that an insufficient opportunity exists for a savings association to meet such investment requirements; or
(B) the appropriate Federal banking agency determines that— (i) the grant of any such exception will significantly facilitate an acquisition under section 1823(c) or 1823(k) of this title; (ii) the acquired association will comply with the transition requirements of paragraph (7)(B), as if the date of the exemption were the starting date for the transition period described in that paragraph; and (iii) the appropriate Federal banking agency determines that 7 7 So in original. The words “the appropriate Federal banking agency determines that” probably should not appear. the exemption will not have an undue adverse effect on competing savings associations in the relevant market and will further the purposes of this subsection.