-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, OjFTojjLE/Jx8X4KdH0NzYDker9FPwEselWV1FA4j65hYwWNrqrBzUJl5Es7dj3s zwsizbJk32nedYybYN5EYw== 0000908834-09-000357.txt : 20100125 0000908834-09-000357.hdr.sgml : 20100125 20091029094014 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000908834-09-000357 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20091029 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: NORTHWEST INDIANA BANCORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000919864 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SAVINGS INSTITUTION, FEDERALLY CHARTERED [6035] IRS NUMBER: 351927981 STATE OF INCORPORATION: IN FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 9204 COLUMBIA AVE CITY: MUNSTER STATE: IN ZIP: 46321 BUSINESS PHONE: 2198369690 CORRESP 1 filename1.htm nib_cor1029.htm
 
 
NorthWest
Indiana
    
BANCORP   9204 Columbia Avenue, Munster, Indiana 46321 / (219) 836-9690
 

 
October 29, 2009


Via EDGAR and Federal Express

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
Attn: Benjamin Phippen
100 F Street, N.E., Mail Stop 4720
Washington, D.C.  20549-4720

 

 
Re:
NorthWest Indiana Bancorp (the “Bancorp”)
   
Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008
   
Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2009
   
Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2009
   
File No. 000-26128

Dear Mr. Phippen:
 
We have received your office’s comment letter dated October 20, 2009 concerning the above-referenced filings.  The comment letter asks for our written response within 10 business days or to tell you when we will provide you with our response.
 
Per our legal counsel’s telephone conversation with you this week, we are respectfully requesting an extension of time to complete our response and allow for the appropriate amount of time and resources, including the coordination of a review process with the Bancorp’s senior management and board of directors, to consider the staff’s comments.  As a result, we intend to provide our responses to the comment letter no later than November 16, 2009.
 
On behalf of the Bancorp, I hereby acknowledge that:
 
·  
the Bancorp is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filings;
 
·  
staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filings; and
 
·  
the Bancorp may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.
 

 
 
 

Benjamin Phippen
Securities and Exchange Commission
October 29, 2009
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We appreciate the staff’s consideration of this request and look forward to working with you.  Should you have additional comments or questions, please contact me at (219) 853-7610, or our outside counsel, David P. Hooper, at (317) 231-7333.
 
 
Sincerely,
   
 
/s/ Robert T. Lowry
   
 
Robert T. Lowry
 
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

 
cc:
David A. Bochnowski
 
Claudia V. Swhier, Esq.
 
David P. Hooper, Esq.

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