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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August
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                                         Registration No. 33-____
                                                                  
                                                                  

               SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                    WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549        

                            FORM S-8
                     REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                              UNDER
                   THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                                
                         USBANCORP, Inc.                        
     (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

           Pennsylvania                         25-1424278        
     (State of Incorporation)      (I.R.S. Employer
                                   Identification No.)
                                
      Main & Franklin Streets, Johnstown, PA      15901       
       (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
                                
     U S National Bank Collectively Bargained Employees 
                           401(k) Plan
                    (Full title of the Plan)
                                
Terry K. Dunkle, President         Jeffrey P. Waldron, Esquire
and Chief Executive Officer        Stevens & Lee
United States National Bank        607 Washington Street
Main & Franklin Streets            Reading, Pennsylvania  19601
Johnstown, Pennsylvania 15901                
(814) 533-5300                     (610) 478-2000                 
 (Names, addresses and telephone numbers of agents for service)

                 CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE                  
                                      
                                     
                           Proposed   Proposed    
 Title of                  Maximum     Maximum
 Securities     Amount     Offering   Aggregate   Amount of
   to be        to be       Price      Offering  Registration
Registered   Registered1   Per Unit2    Price       Fee    
Common Stock   12,000       $25.25     $303,000     $104.48 
 $2.50 par     shares
  value
per share                                                        
1    Based upon the maximum number of shares of the Registrant's
     common stock issuable under the U S National Bank
     Collectively Bargained Employees 401(k) Plan.
2    Estimated solely for purposes of calculating the
     registration fee.  Calculated in accordance with Rule 457(c)
     and (h)(1), on the basis of the average of the closing high
     and low prices of the Registrant's common stock as reported
     on the NASDAQ National Market System as of August 17, 1994.
3    In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities
     Act of 1993, this registration statement also covers an
     indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold
     pursuant to the employee benefit plan described herein.
PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.   Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

          The following documents are incorporated by reference
in this Registration Statement:  

     (a)  The Annual Report on Form 10-K of USBANCORP for the
          year ended December 31, 1993 and the Annual Report on
          Form 11-K of the Plan for the year ended December 31,
          1993, filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the
          Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
          "Exchange Act").

     (b)  All other reports filed by USBANCORP and the Plan
          pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act
          since December 31, 1993.

     (c)  The description of USBANCORP's common stock contained
          in its registration statement on Form 8-A filed with
          the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 13,
          1985.

     All documents subsequently filed by USBANCORP and the Plan
pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange
Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which
indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which
deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed
to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement
and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such
documents.

Item 4.   Description of Securities.

          Not applicable.

Item 5.   Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

          Not applicable.

Item 6.   Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

          Sections 1741, 1742 and 1743 of the Pennsylvania
Business Corporation Law of 1988, as amended, set forth
circumstances under which directors and officers may be
indemnified against liability.  USBANCORP's Bylaws specifically
provide that the directors, officers, agents and employees of
USBANCORP may be indemnified against liability to the fullest
extent permitted by law.

          USBANCORP has purchased a liability insurance policy
which insures USBANCORP, under certain circumstances, in the
event it indemnifies a director or officer of USBANCORP or a
subsidiary pursuant to the provisions of the Bylaws of USBANCORP
or otherwise or advances costs (including the cost of defending
any action) incurred by directors or officers in their capacity
as such.

Item 7.   Exemption from Registration Claimed.

          Not applicable.


Item 8.   Exhibits.

          4.1  Articles of Incorporation of USBANCORP, Inc.
               (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.1
               to Form S-2, 33-56684).

          4.2  Bylaws of USBANCORP, Inc. (incorporated herein by
               reference to Exhibit 4.2 to Form S-2, 33-56684).

          4.3  Shareholder Protection Rights Agreement, dated as
               of November 10, 1989, between USBANCORP, Inc. and
               United States National Bank in Johnstown, as
               Rights Agent (incorporated by reference to
               Exhibit 4.2 to Form S-2, 33-56684).

          5.1  Opinion of Stevens & Lee re:  legality of common
               stock being registered.

          5.2  Internal Revenue Service determination letter with
               respect to U S National Bank Collectively
               Bargained Employees 401(k) Plan.

          23.1 Consent of Arthur Andersen & Co. 

          23.2 Consent of Price Waterhouse, LLP.

          23.3 Consent of Barnes, Saly & Company.

          23.4 Consent of Stevens & Lee is contained in its
               opinion at Exhibit 5 of this Registration
               Statement.

          24.  Power of Attorney of Directors and Officers
               (included on signature page).

          99.  U S National Bank Collectively Bargained Employees
               401(k) Plan.

Item 9.   Undertakings.

          (a)  USBANCORP hereby undertakes:

               (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or
sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this
registration statement:

                    (i)  To include any prospectus required by
     Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933; unless the
     information required to be included in such post-effective
     amendment is contained in a periodic report filed by
     USBANCORP or the Plan pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
     Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated herein
     by reference;

                    (ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts
     or events arising after the effective date of the
     registration statement (or the most recent post-effective
     amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate,
     represent a fundamental change in the information set forth
     in the registration statement, unless the information
     required to be included in such post-effective amendment is
     contained in  a periodic report filed by USBANCORP or the
     Plan pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities
     Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated herein by
     reference; and

                    (iii)  To include any material information
     with respect to the plan of distribution not previously
     disclosed in the registration statement or any material
     change to such information in the registration statement.

               (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any
liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such
post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration
statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial bona fide offering thereof.

               (3)  To remove from registration by means of a
post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered
which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

          (b)  USBANCORP hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each
filing of USBANCORP's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or
Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where
applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual
report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration
statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of
such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide offering thereof.

          (c)  Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising
under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors,
officers and controlling persons of USBANCORP pursuant to the
provisions described in Item 6 above, or otherwise, USBANCORP has
been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as
expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the
event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities
(other than the payment by USBANCORP of expenses incurred or paid
by a director, officer or controlling person of USBANCORP in the
successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted
by such director, officer or controlling person in connection
with the securities being registered, USBANCORP will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by
controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is
against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be
governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

                           SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,
USBANCORP certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe
that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and
has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City
of Johnstown, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on this 27th day of
May, 1994.

                              USBANCORP, INC. 


                              By:  /s/ Terry K. Dunkle           
                                   
                                   Terry K. Dunkle, President and
                                   Chief Executive Officer


                        POWER OF ATTORNEY

     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose
signature appears below constitutes and appoints Terry K. Dunkle
and Orlando B. Hanselman, and each of them, his true and lawful
attorney-in-fact, as agent with full power of substitution and
resubstitution for him and in his name, place and stead, in any
and all capacity, to sign any or all amendments to this
Registration Statement and to file the same, with all exhibits
thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said
attorney-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and
perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to
be done in and about the premises, as fully and to all intents
and purposes as they might or could do in person, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue hereof.

          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of
1933, this registration statement has been signed by the
following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Signature                     Title                         Date

 /s/ Terry K. Dunkle     Chairman of the Board,        May 27, 1994
Terry K. Dunkle          President, Chief Executive
                         Officer (Principal Executive
                         Officer)

/s/Orlando B. Hanselman  Executive Vice President,     May 27, 1994
Orlando B. Hanselman     Chief Financial Officer &
                         Manager of Corporate Services
                         (Principal Financial and
                         Accounting Officer)

 /s/ Jerome M. Adams          Director                 May 27, 1994
Jerome M. Adams

 /s/ Robert A. Allen          Director                 May 27, 1994
Robert A. Allen               

/s/ Clifford A. Barton        Director                 May 27, 1994
Clifford A. Barton

/s/ Michael F. Butler         Director                 May 27, 1994
Michael F. Butler

 /s/ Louis Cynkar             Director                 May 27, 1994
Louis Cynkar

/s/Dennis J. Fantaski         Director                 May 27, 1994
Dennis J. Fantaski

/s/ Richard W. Kappel         Director                 May 27, 1994
Richard W. Kappel

/s/ John H. Kunkle, Jr.       Director                 May 27, 1994
John H. Kunkle, Jr.

/s/ James F. O'Malley         Director                 May 27, 1994
James F. O'Malley

/s/ Frank J. Pasquerilla      Director                 May 27, 1994
Frank J. Pasquerilla

 /s/ Jack Sevy                Director                 May 27, 1994
Jack Sevy

 /s/ Thomas C. Slater         Director                 May 27, 1994
Thomas C. Slater

 /s/ James C. Spangler        Director                 May 27, 1994
James C. Spangler

 /s/ Harrison Vail            Director                 May 27, 1994.
Harrison Vail

 /s/ Robert L. Wise           Director                 May 27, 1994
Robert L. Wise



     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Trustees of the Plan have duly caused this Registration Statement to
be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

August 9, 1994

                              U S National Bank Collectively Bargained
                              Employees 401(K) Plan

                              USBANCORP TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee


                              By   /s/ Anne G. Bump                  
                                       Anne G. Bump 

                          EXHIBIT INDEX
          



Exhibits                                          Page Number in
                                                  Manually Signed
                                                     Original    


5.1       Opinion of Stevens & Lee 
          re:  legality of common stock 
          being registered.   

5.2       Internal Revenue Service 
          determination letter with 
          respect to U S National Bank 
          Collectively Bargained 
          Employees 401(k) Plan.

23.1      Consent of Arthur Andersen & Co.   

23.2      Consent of Price Waterhouse, LLP.

23.3      Consent of Barnes, Saly & Company. 

99.       U S National Bank Collectively 
          Bargained Employees 401(k) Plan.