File No. 73-00049
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)
ESKOM Lease Trust A ESKOM Lease Trust B
c/o Wilmington Trust Company c/o Wilmington Trust Company
Rodney Square North Rodney Square North
1100 North Market Street 1100 North Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19890-0001 Wilmington, Delaware 19890-0001
Attention: Corporate Trust Attention: Corporate Trust
Administration Administration
ESKOM Lease Trust C
c/o Wilmington Trust Company
Rodney Square North
1100 North Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19890-0001
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration
(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 See The Southern Company, et al., Holding Co. Act Rel. No. 26468 (February 2,
1996).
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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.
ESKOM Lease Trust A ESKOM Lease Trust B
c/o Wilmington Trust Company c/o Wilmington Trust Company
Rodney Square North Rodney Square North
1100 North Market Street 1100 North Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19890-0001 Wilmington, Delaware 19890-0001
Attention: Corporate Trust Attention: Corporate Trust
Administration Administration
ESKOM Lease Trust C
c/o Wilmington Trust Company
Rodney Square North
1100 North Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19890-0001
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration
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 three companies named above,
which are organized under the trust laws of the State of Delaware (collectively,
the "Project Trusts"). 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, the beneficial interests in each of the three Project
Trusts. The Project Trusts have been formed to acquire undivided interests in
Units 1 and 2 of the Majuba Power Station, a 657 megawatt coal-fired generating
station, and related common facilities owned and operated by ESKOM (the
"Facility"). ESKOM is an integrated electric generation, transmission, and
distribution utility operating in the Republic of South Africa and established
under the Electricity Act of 1922 (Act No. 42 of 1922), the Electricity Act of
1958 (Act. No. 40 of 1958), and the ESKOM Act of 1987 (Act No. 40 of 1987). The
three Project Trusts will each acquire undivided interests in the Facility
which, in the aggregate, will equal 100% of the acquired interest.
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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 Trusts:
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
Trusts, and no such investment or contractual relationship is contemplated.
EXHIBIT A
Inapplicable
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/Samuel H. Dabbs, Jr.
Samuel H. Dabbs, Jr.
Assistant Secretary
Date: December 17, 1997
