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)
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Dutch Gas Lease Trust A Dutch Gas 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 Administration Attention: Corporate Trust Administration
Dutch Gas 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)
Southern Energy, Inc.
900 Ashwood Parkway - Suite 500
Atlanta, Georgia 30338
The Commission is requested to address
communications to:
Thomas Boren, President John D. McLanahan, Esq.
Southern Energy, 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.
Dutch Gas Lease Trust A Dutch Gas 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 Administration Attention: Corporate Trust Administration
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Dutch Gas Lease Trust C
c/o Wilmington Trust Company
Rodney Square North
1100 North Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19890-0001
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration
Southern Energy, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Southern Energy"), 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 enitities named
above, which are organized under the trust laws of the State of Delaware
(collectively, the "Project Trusts"). Southern Energy is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of The Southern Company ("Southern"), a registered holding company.1
Southern Energy intends to acquire, indirectly through one or more
intermediate subsidiaries, the beneficial interests in each of the three Project
Trusts. The Project Trusts will be formed to acquire a portion of a retail
natural gas distribution and transportation system owned by N.V. Energie
Distributiemaatschappig voor Oost en Noord Nederland ("EDON"), which supplies
the provinces of Drenthe and Ovweijessel, and the Noordoostpolder in the
Netherlands (the portion being acquired referred to herein as the "EDON Gas
Network"). The EDON Gas Network has a residential customer base of approximately
510,000 and a large/special customer base of approximately 2200. The EDON Gas
Network has four regional energy groups which are responsible for supplying
natural gas and managing the gas transmission/distribution infrastructure which
consist of 12 distinct gas networks. The EDON Gas Network is comprised of the
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1 See The Southern Company, et al., Holding Co. Act Rel. No. 26468
(February 2, 1996).
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connection between the end users (residential and business customers) and the
national gas supply grid operated by Gasunie, the government controlled national
supplier of natural gas for The Netherlands. The transportation assets are
primarily comprised of approximately 2100 kilometers of iron and steel piping
and 12,000 kilometers of synthetic piping.
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.
Southern Energy, Inc.
By: /S/ Samuel H. Dabbs, Jr.
Samuel H. Dabbs, Jr.
Assistant Secretary
Date: December 8, 1998