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File No. 70-8235
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Amendment No. 13 to Form U-1
JOINT APPLICATION-DECLARATION
UNDER
THE PUBLIC UTILITY HOLDING COMPANY ACT OF 1935
THE COLUMBIA GAS SYSTEM, INC.
TRISTAR VENTURES CORPORATION
TRISTAR BINGHAMTON GENERAL CORPORATION
TRISTAR BINGHAMTON LIMITED CORPORATION
TRISTAR FUEL CELLS CORPORATION
TRISTAR GEORGETOWN GENERAL CORPORATION
TRISTAR GEORGETOWN LIMITED CORPORATION
TRISTAR PEDRICK GENERAL CORPORATION
TRISTAR PEDRICK LIMITED CORPORATION
TRISTAR RUMFORD LIMITED CORPORATION
TRISTAR VINELAND GENERAL CORPORATION
TRISTAR VINELAND LIMITED CORPORATION
TVC NINE CORPORATION
TVC TEN CORPORATION
20 Montchanin Road
Wilmington, DE 19807
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(Names of company or companies filing this statement
and addresses of principal executive offices)
THE COLUMBIA GAS SYSTEM, INC.
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(Name of top registered holding company parent
of each applicant or declarant)
L. J. Bainter, Treasurer
THE COLUMBIA GAS SYSTEM, INC.
20 Montchanin Road
Wilmington, DE 19807
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(Name and address of agent for service)
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The Application-Declaration as previously filed is hereby amended as
follows:
Item 1. Description of Proposed Transaction
The following is inserted at the end of Item 1 of Amendment No. 8 to
the Application-Declaration at Page 15:
TVC undertakes that, on behalf of itself, the TriStar Subsidiaries and
the Project Parents, it will provide on annual and semiannual bases within 60
days of the end of its fiscal year and within 60 days of each December 31 and
June 30, respectively, a certificate of notification under Rule 24 of the Act
("Certificate"). The Certificate will include for the period covered by the
report: (A) annually, the Form U-13-60, appropriately modified, detailing all
of TVC's activities, including: (i) providing services to affiliated EWGs
and/or FUCOs and the number and percentage of Columbia system employees used to
provide such services, and (ii) providing fuel management, operations and
maintenance and related activities to nonassociate entities; and, (B)
semiannually for TVC, (1) a balance sheet; (2) an income statement; (3)
cash flow statements; (4) a narrative description of preliminary development
and administrative activities and the size, nature and purpose of any new,
direct or indirect, investment activity; and (5) the dates for and amounts
involved in the issuance and sale of common stock by the TriStar Subsidiaries
to TVC and the payment of any dividends to TVC by the TriStar Subsidiaries out
of capital surplus; (6) the dates for and the amount of any short-term
advances and/or capital contributions by TVC to the TriStar Subsidiaries;
(7) the dates for and the amount of any debt cancelled by TVC for any of the
TriStar Subsidiaries.
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Public Utility Holding
Company Act of 1935, the undersigned companies have duly caused this
Declaration to be signed on their behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly
authorized.
The signature of the applicants and of the persons signing on
their behalf are restricted to the information contained in this application
which is pertinent to the application of the respective companies.
THE COLUMBIA GAS SYSTEM, INC.
Dated: December 29, 1994 By: /s/ L. J. BAINTER
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L. J. Bainter,
Treasurer
TRISTAR VENTURES CORPORATION
TRISTAR BINGHAMTON GENERAL
CORPORATION
TRISTAR BINGHAMTON LIMITED
CORPORATION
TRISTAR FUEL CELLS CORPORATION
TRISTAR GEORGETOWN GENERAL
CORPORATION
TRISTAR GEORGETOWN LIMITED
CORPORATION
TRISTAR PEDRICK GENERAL CORPORATION
TRISTAR PEDRICK LIMITED CORPORATION
TRISTAR RUMFORD LIMITED CORPORATION
TRISTAR VINELAND GENERAL
CORPORATION
TRISTAR VINELAND LIMITED
CORPORATION
TVC NINE CORPORATION
TVC TEN CORPORATION
20 Montchanin Road
Wilmington, DE 19807
Dated: December 29, 1994 By: /s/ D. P. DETAR
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D. P. Detar,
Treasurer
