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FORM 3 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 OMB APPROVAL
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INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES OMB Number: 3235-0104
Expires: December 31, 2001
Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Estimated average burden
Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or hours per response .... 0.5
(Print or Type Responses) Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 -----------------------------
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* 2. Date of Event Re- 4. Issuer Name AND Ticker or Trading Symbol
quiring Statement
Attia Alan Isaac (Month/Day/Year) H Power Corp. ("HPOW")
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(Last) (First) (Middle) 8/8/00 11. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) 12. If Amendment,
----------------------- to Issuer (Check all applicable) Date of Original
3. I.R.S. Identifica- Director 10% Owner (Month/Day/Year)
tion Number of ---- ----
6604 Loma Larga Road Reporting Person, Officer (give Other (specify ---------------------
------------------------------------------------- if an entity X title below) below) 7. Individual or
(Street) (voluntary) ---- ---- Joint/Group
Filing
Vice President, Research and Development Form filed by One
---------------------------------------- X Reporting Person
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Form filed by
More than One
Reporting Person
Corrales NM 87048 ---
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(City) (State) (Zip) TABLE 1 -- NON-DERIVATIVE SECURITIES BENEFICIALLY OWNED
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1. Title of Security 2. Amount of Securities 3. Ownership 4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial
(Instr. 4) Beneficially Owned Form: Direct Ownership (Instr. 5)
(Instr. 4) (D) or Indirect
(I) (Instr. 5)
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Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly.
* If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, SEE Instruction 5(b)(v).
POTENTIAL PERSONS WHO ARE TO RESPOND TO THE COLLECTION OF INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS FORM ARE NOT REQUIRED
TO RESPOND UNLESS THE FORM DISPLAYS A CURRENTLY VALID OMB CONTROL NUMBER.
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FORM 3 (CONTINUED) TABLE II - DERIVATIVE SECURITIES BENEFICIALLY OWNED (E.G., PUTS, CALLS, WARRANTS, OPTIONS, CONVERTIBLE
SECURITIES)
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1. Title of Derivative Security 2. Date Exer- 3. Title and Amount of Securities 4. Conver- 5. Owner- 6. Nature of Indirect
(Instr. 4) cisable and Underlying Derivative Security sion or ship Beneficial
Expiration (Instr. 4) Exercise Form of Ownership
Date Price of Deriv- (Instr. 5)
(Month/Day/ Deri- ative
Year) vative Security:
-------------------------------------------------- Security Direct
Amount (D) or
Date Expir- or Indirect
Exer- ation Title Number (I)
cisable Date of
Shares (Instr. 5)
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Options to Purchase Common (1) 6/5/10 Common Stock, $0.001 50,000 (2) D
Stock, $0.001 par value per share par value
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Explanation of Responses: (1) The option is currently exercisable as to 5,000 shares, becomes exercisable as to 10,000 shares in
June 2001, becomes exercisable as to 10,000 shares in June 2002, and becomes exercisable as to the
remaining 25,000 shares on December 31, 2002.
(2) The options to purchase 50,000 shares of common stock held by Alan Attia are exercisable at a price
per share equal to the initial public offering price of H Power Corp.'s common stock, assumed for
purposes of this table to be $12.00 per share.
/s/ Alan I. Attia 8/1/00
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**Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal **Signature of Reporting Person Date
Criminal Violations SEE 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. If space is insufficient,
SEE Instruction 6 for procedure.
Potential persons who are to respond to the collection of information contained in this form are not
required to respond unless the form displays a currently valid OMB Number. Page 2
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