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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
:
In the matter of :
:
AEP GENERATING COMPANY :
AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INC. :
1 Riverside Plaza : CERTIFICATE OF
Columbus, Ohio 43215 : NOTIFICATION
: No. 12
(70-8237) :
Public Utility Holding Company :
Act of 1935 :
:
THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT AEP GENERATING COMPANY ("Generating") and AMERICAN
ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INC. ("AEP"), in accordance with the terms and
conditions of, and for the purposes represented by, the Application Declaration
herein and the Orders of the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect
thereto, dated December 10, 1993, HCAR No. 35-25943, and August 12, 1997, HCAR
No. 35-26754, have carried out the transactions set forth below:
On May 26, 1999, the Board of Directors of AEP Generating Company
authorized the payment of a $4,000,000 dividend out of paid-in capital to
American Electric Power Company, Inc. Such dividend was paid on June 11,
1999.
Generating and AEP will file a "past tense" opinion of counsel as to all
the transactions authorized by the aforementioned Order of the Commission in
this proceeding at the time the last of such transactions has been carried out.
AEP GENERATING COMPANY
By: /s/ A. A. Pena
Treasurer
AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INC.
By: /s/ A. A. Pena
Treasurer
Dated: June 14, 1999
