AEP GENERATING CO /OH/
POS AMC, 1994-10-04
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                                                           File No. 70-7167

                          SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                                Washington, D.C. 20549

                            ______________________________

                            POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1
                                          TO
                                       FORM U-1
                            ______________________________

                              APPLICATION OR DECLARATION

                                      under the

                      PUBLIC UTILITY HOLDING COMPANY ACT OF 1935

                                        * * *

                                AEP GENERATING COMPANY
                       1 Riverside Plaza, Columbus, Ohio 43215

                              APPALACHIAN POWER COMPANY
                      40 Franklin Road, Roanoke, Virginia 24022

                           COLUMBUS SOUTHERN POWER COMPANY
                     215 North Front Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215

                            INDIANA MICHIGAN POWER COMPANY
              One Summit Square, P.O. Box 60, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802

                                KENTUCKY POWER COMPANY
             1701 Central Avenue, P.O. Box 1428, Ashland, Kentucky 41101

                                  OHIO POWER COMPANY
                    301 Cleveland Avenue, S.W., Canton, Ohio 44702
                     (Name of companies filing this statement and
                      addresses of principal executive offices)

                                        * * *

                        AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INC.
                       1 Riverside Plaza, Columbus, Ohio 43215
                       (Name of top registered holding company
                        parent of each applicant or declarant)

                                        * * *

                       G. P. Maloney, Executive Vice President
                     American Electric Power Service Corporation
                       1 Riverside Plaza, Columbus, Ohio  43215

                           A. Joseph Dowd, General Counsel
                     American Electric Power Service Corporation
                       1 Riverside Plaza, Columbus, Ohio 43215  
                     (Names and addresses of agents for service)



               The undersigned companies hereby  amend their Application or

          Declaration  on  Form U-1  in  File  No.  70-7167, as  heretofore

          amended, by  amending and restating  the sixth paragraph  in Item

          1E.  Determination of Barge Rates as follows:

                    "This  post-effective amendment is  being filed to
               comply  with recommendations  of the  Commission staff,
               resulting  from  its field  audit  of Indiana  Michigan
               Power Company's ('I&M') River  Transportation Division.
               Specifically, the Commission  staff suggested that  I&M
               adjust  its  cost of  capital  rate  authorized in  the
               original order  (HCAR No.  35-24039, March 4,  1986) to
               conform the rate to the current market.  Therefore, I&M
               proposes  that  the  provision   for  cost  of  capital
               applicable    to   its   investment    in   the   River
               Transportation Division would be adjusted  on an annual
               basis, determined  as set forth  in Appendix  A to  the
               Barge  Transportation Agreement.   The overall  rate of
               return  on   I&M's  investment  would  be   subject  to
               adjustment on the first day of April in each succeeding
               year based on changes  in the rate of return  on common
               equity  allowed  by   the  Federal  Energy   Regulatory
               Commission   ('FERC')  in   the  last   wholesale  rate
               proceeding involving  I&M.   In the  absence of  a FERC
               order,  the rate of return on common equity would be as
               allowed by the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission in
               I&M's most recent retail rate proceeding.

                    I&M proposes to adjust the capitalization ratio on
               an annual basis,  using I&M's financial information  as
               reported  at  December  31   of  the  preceding   year.
               Similarly, the  cost of debt and  preferred stock would
               be  updated to  reflect the  overall cost  of debt  and
               preferred stock  at December 31 of  the preceding year.
               The rate changes resulting  from this methodology would
               be applied for billing  purposes to the 12-month period
               commencing on the April  1 subsequent to the applicable
               December 31 calculation.

                    Attached  hereto as  Appendix A  is a  chart which
               reflects how I&M calculated  the current market rate of
               return  using December 31,  1993 financial information.
               Such information would be  reported by I&M in  its Rule
               24 reports.  By adjusting the provision for the cost of
               capital,  the cost  of capital  rate will  be increased
               from the  8.82%  currently authorized  to  9.73%,  thus
               increasing  the fees  charged by  I&M; however,  in the
               event the cost of debt or preferred stock or the return
               on  common  equity  decreases, the  capital  rate  will
               likewise decrease."


                                      SIGNATURE

               Pursuant to  the requirements of the  Public Utility Holding

          Company Act  of 1935, the undersigned companies  have duly caused

          this  Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to be signed on their behalf

          by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

                                        AEP GENERATING COMPANY
                                        APPALACHIAN POWER COMPANY
                                        COLUMBUS SOUTHERN POWER COMPANY
                                        INDIANA MICHIGAN POWER COMPANY
                                        KENTUCKY POWER COMPANY
                                        OHIO POWER COMPANY


                                        By__/s/ G. P. Maloney____
                                           Vice President


          Dated:  October 4, 1994


          70-7167.pe1





                                                                 Appendix A



          <TABLE>

                            INDIANA MICHIGAN POWER COMPANY
                            RIVER TRANSPORTATION DIVISION
                            Rate of Return on Investments


      <CAPTION>

                                                                    After-Tax
                        Capitalization    Percent    Effective      Weighted
          Component       at 12/31/93    of Total      Cost      Rate of Return
                            (000)

      <S>               <C>             <C>         <C>          <C>
      Long-Term Debt     $  903,348(a)      44.31%    8.00%(c)        3.55%
      Preferred Stock       187,000          9.17%    6.58%(c)        0.60%

      Common Stock          948,297(b)      46.51%   12.00%(d)        5.58%
      Total              $2,038,545        100.00%                    9.73%
                                                
      </TABLE>

      (a)  Long-Term Debt is net of unamortized debt expense and the unamortized
           loss  on reacquired debt and excludes the liability for spent nuclear
           fuel disposal costs.

      (b)  Common Equity excludes undistributed subsidiary earnings.

      (c)  Embedded Cost at 12/31/93.

      (d)  The rate ordered by the IURC in I&M's 1993 retail rate proceeding.


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