UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM U-12(I)-B (ANNUAL STATEMENT)
Calendar Year 1998
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 U-71(b)
(To be filed in DUPLICATE. If acknowledgment is desired, file in triplicate.)
1. Name and business address of person filing statement.
W. Frank Blount
Telstra House, Level 15
231 Elizabeth Street
Sydney, NSW 2000
Australia
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.
Entergy Corporation
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.
As a Director, the undersigned may from time to time, present,
advocate or oppose matters affecting Entergy Corporation and its
subsidiary companies before Congress and members and committees
thereof, and before this Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission and members, officers and employees of such Commissions.
The services required to be described in this form under Section
12(i) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 are
incidental to the undersigned's primary and principal duties and,
although such services vary in extent from time to time, they
represent overall only a comparatively minor portion of the total
services rendered.
5(a) Compensation received during the prior year and to be received during
the calendar year 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.)
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Salary or other compensation
Name of Recipient During Prior Year(a) To be received(b) Person or company from whom
received or to be received
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W. F. Blount $59,309 $47,000 Entergy Corporation
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5(b) Basis for compensation if other than salary.
Board of Directors Compensation
6. (To be answered in supplementary statement only. See instructions.)
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: $0
(b) Itemized list of all other expenses: No other expenses.
In accordance with the provisions of subdivision (c) of Rule U-71, the
undersigned files this statement as a combined renewal of the advance
statement filed by the undersigned January 1997 and as a supplemental
statement to such advance statement.
/s/ W. Frank Blount Dated: January 22, 1998
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