SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.
FORM U-57
NOTIFICATION OF FOREIGN UTILITY COMPANY STATUS
Filed under section 33(a) of the
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended
(Names and addresses of foreign utility companies)
Companhia Energetica de Minas Gerais Companhia de Gas de Minas Gerais
Avenida Barbacena, No. 1200 Avenida Barbacena, No. 1200
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, 30161-970 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, 30161-970
Brazil Brazil
(Name and address of filing company)
SEI Holdings, Inc.
900 Ashwood Parkway - Suite 500
Atlanta, Georgia 30338
The Commission is requested to address communications to:
Thomas Boren, President John D. McLanahan, Esq.
SEI Holdings, Inc. Troutman Sanders LLP
900 Ashwood Parkway - Suite 500 600 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30338 Suite 5200
Atlanta, Georgia 30308-2216
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1. Name of the entity(ies) on whose behalf foreign utility company status is
claimed, its (their) business address(es), and a description of the facilities
used for the generation, transmission and distribution of electric energy for
sale or for the distribution at retail of natural or manufactured gas. Identity
of each person that holds five percent (5%) or more of any class of voting
securities of the foreign utility company(ies) and description of the amount and
nature of the interest.
Companhia Energetica de Minas Gerais Companhia de Gas de Minas Gerais
Avenida Barbacena, No. 1200 Avenida Barbacena, No. 1200
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, 30161-970 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, 30161-970
Brazil Brazil
SEI Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("SEI Holdings"), is filing
this Notification of Foreign Utility Company Status pursuant to Section 33(a) of
the Act and Rule 57 thereunder on behalf of the two companies, which are
organized under the trust laws of the Federative Republic of Brazil, listed
above (collectively, the "Project Companies"). SEI Holdings is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of The Southern Company ("Southern"), a registered holding company.1
SEI Holdings intends to acquire, indirectly through one or more
"Intermediate Subsidiaries,"2 interests in each of the two Project Companies.
AES CEMIG Empreendimentos, Inc., a Cayman corporation ("AES CEMIG") also intends
to acquire, indirectly through one or more intermediate subsidiaries, interests
in each of the two Project Companies. AES CEMIG is a wholly-owned, indirect
subsidiary of The AES Corporation.
Companhia Energetica de Minas Gerais ("CEMIG") is an integrated energy
company which is involved in the generation, transmission, and distribution of
electricity in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. CEMIG operates thirty-three
hydroelectric plants, two small thermal power plants and one wind farm, with six
of its hydroelectric plants accounting for approximately ninety percent of
CEMIG's installed capacity. As of June 30, 1996, CEMIG had circa 172,201 miles
of power transmission and distribution lines.
CEMIG is engaged in gas distribution through its unconsolidated
majority-owned subsidiary, Companhia de Gas de Minas Gerais ("GASMIG"). GASMIG
supplies approximately 400,000 cubic meters of gas per day to ten industrial
customers in Minas Gerais. In addition, about fifty companies in the cities of
Belo Horizonte, Betim, Contagem, Santa Luzia, and Vespasiano have executed
contracts with GASMIG for the supply of gas.
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1 See The Southern Company, et al., Holding Co. Act Rel. No. 26468
(February 2, 1996).
2 "Intermediate Subsidiaries" is defined in the February 2, 1996 release
identified supra n. 1.
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2. Name of any domestic associate public-utility company and, if applicable, its
holding company, and a description of the relationship between the foreign
utility company and such company, and the purchase price paid by any such
domestic associate public-utility company for its interest in the foreign
utility company.
The following domestic public-utility companies, each of which is a
direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Southern, are associate companies
of the Project Companies:
Alabama Power Company
Georgia Power Company
Gulf Power Company
Mississippi Power Company
Mobile Energy Services Company, L.L.C.
Savannah Electric and Power Company
Southern Electric Generating Company
None of the foregoing domestic public utility companies has made an
investment in or has any contractual relationship with any of the Project
Companies, and no such investment or contractual relationship is contemplated.
EXHIBIT A
If applicable, the state certification(s) required under section
33(a)(2) of the Act. Certification(s) previously filed with the Commission may
be incorporated by reference. If the certification(s) is not available at the
time of filed the From U-57, so state, and undertake to file such certification
as an amendment when available; however, foreign utility status will not be
deemed obtained until all required certification(s) have been filed.
NOT APPLICABLE
SIGNATURE
The undersigned company has duly caused this statement to be signed on
its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
SEI HOLDINGS, INC.
By: /s/Tommy Chisholm
Tommy Chisholm, Secretary
Date: June 6, 1997
