SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.
Three year period ending 2000
FORM U-12(I)-B (THREE-YEAR STATEMENT)
Statement Pursuant to Section 12(i) of Public Utility Holding Company Act of
1935 by a Person Regularly Employed or Retained by a Registered Holding
Company or a Subsidiary Thereof and Whose Employment Contemplates
Only Routine Expenses as Specified in Rule 71(b)
1. Name and business address of person filing statement.
Richard H. Chastain, Southern Company Services, Inc.
P. O. Box 2625, Birmingham, AL 35202
2. Names and business addresses of any persons through whom the
undersigned proposes to act in matters included within the exemption provided by
paragraph (b) of Rule U-71.
None
3. Registered holding companies and subsidiary companies by which the
undersigned is regularly employed or retained.
Southern Company Services, Inc.
4. Position or relationship in which the undersigned is employed or
retained by each of the companies named in item 3, and brief description of
nature of services to be rendered in each such position or relationship.
Manager, Economic Analysis
5. (a) Compensation received during the current year and estimated to
be received over the next two calendar years by the undersigned or others,
directly or indirectly, for services rendered by the undersigned, from each of
the companies designated in item 3. (Use column (a) as supplementary statement
only.)
Salary or other
compensations
Name of received to be Person or company from whom
recipient received received or to be received
(a) (b)
Richard H. $333,178 to be included Southern Company Services, Inc.
Chastain (1995-1997) in supplemental
statement
(b) Basis for compensation if other than salary.
6. (To be answered in supplementary statement only.) Expenses incurred
by the undersigned or any person named in item 2, above, during the calendar
year in connection with the activities described in item 4, above, and the
source or sources of reimbursement for same.
(a) Total amount of routine expenses charged to client:
(b) Itemized list of all other expenses:
Date January 19, 1998 (Signed) /s/ Richard H. Chastain