EMBARGOED UNTIL 11:00 A.M. Contact: Office of Financing
July 2, 2007 202/504-3550
TREASURY OFFERS 4-WEEK BILLS
The Treasury will auction 4-week Treasury bills totaling $13,000 million to
refund an estimated $10,000 million of publicly held 4-week Treasury bills maturing
July 5, 2007, and to raise new cash of approximately $3,000 million.
Tenders for 4-week Treasury bills to be held on the book-entry records of Legacy
Treasury Direct will not be accepted. However, tenders for 4-week Treasury bills to be
held on the book-entry records of TreasuryDirect will be accepted.
The Federal Reserve System holds $19,136 million of the Treasury bills maturing
on July 5, 2007, in the System Open Market Account (SOMA). This amount may be refunded
at the highest discount rate of accepted competitive tenders in this auction up to the
balance of the amount not awarded in today’s 13-week and 26-week Treasury bill
auctions. Amounts awarded to SOMA will be in addition to the offering amount.
Up to $1,000 million in noncompetitive bids from Foreign and International
Monetary Authority (FIMA) accounts bidding through the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
will be included within the offering amount of the auction. These noncompetitive bids
will have a limit of $100 million per account and will be accepted in the order of
smallest to largest, up to the aggregate award limit of $1,000 million.
Note: The closing times for receipt of noncompetitive and competitive tenders
will be 11:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. eastern daylight saving time, respectively.
The allocation percentage applied to bids awarded at the highest discount rate
will be rounded up to the next hundredth of a whole percentage point, e.g., 17.13%.
This offering of Treasury securities is governed by the terms and conditions
set forth in the Uniform Offering Circular for the Sale and Issue of Marketable Book-
Entry Treasury Bills, Notes, and Bonds (31 CFR Part 356, as amended).
Details about the new security are given in the attached offering highlights.
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Attachment
HIGHLIGHTS OF TREASURY OFFERING
OF 4-WEEK BILLS TO BE ISSUED JULY 5, 2007
July 2, 2007
Offering Amount .......................... $13,000 million
Maximum Award (35% of Offering Amount) ... $ 4,550 million
Maximum Recognized Bid at a Single Rate .. $ 4,550 million
NLP Reporting Threshold .................. $ 4,550 million
NLP Exclusion Amount ..................... $ 9,500 million
Description of Offering:
Term and type of security .......... 28-day bill
CUSIP number ....................... 912795 ZT 1
Auction date ....................... July 3, 2007
Issue date ......................... July 5, 2007
Maturity date ...................... August 2, 2007
Original issue date ................ February 1, 2007
Currently outstanding .............. $39,089 million
Minimum bid amount and multiples ... $1,000
Submission of Bids:
Noncompetitive bids:
Accepted in full up to $5 million at the highest discount rate of accepted
competitive bids.
Foreign and International Monetary Authority (FIMA) bids:
Noncompetitive bids submitted through the Federal Reserve Banks as agents for
FIMA accounts. Accepted in order of size from smallest to largest with no more
than $100 million awarded per account. The total noncompetitive amount awarded
to Federal Reserve Banks as agents for FIMA accounts will not exceed $1,000
million. A single bid that would cause the limit to be exceeded will be
partially accepted in the amount that brings the aggregate award total to the
$1,000 million limit. However, if there are two or more bids of equal amounts
that would cause the limit to be exceeded, each will be prorated to avoid
exceeding the limit.
Competitive bids:
(1) Must be expressed as a discount rate with three decimals in increments of
.005%, e.g., 4.215%.
(2) Net long position (NLP) for each bidder must be reported when the sum of
the total bid amount, at all discount rates, and the net long position
equals or exceeds the NLP reporting threshold stated above.
(3) Net long position must be determined as of one-half hour prior to the
closing time for receipt of competitive tenders.
(4) Competitive bids from Treasury Direct customers are not allowed.
Receipt of Tenders:
Noncompetitive tenders:
Prior to 11:00 a.m. eastern daylight saving time on auction day
Competitive tenders:
Prior to 11:30 a.m. eastern daylight saving time on auction day