UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C.
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In the Matter of :
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ENTERGY CORPORATION : CERTIFICATE PURSUANT
ENTERGY POWER, INC. : TO RULE 24
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File No. 70-8845 :
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(Public Utility Holding Company :
Act of 1935) :
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This is to certify, pursuant to Rule 24 under the Public
Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended, that the
transactions described below, which were transactions proposed by
Entergy Corporation ("Entergy") and Entergy Power, Inc. ("EPI")
in their joint Declaration on Form U-1, as amended, in the above
File ("Declaration"), have been carried out in accordance with
the terms and conditions of, and for the purposes represented by,
said Declaration, and pursuant to the Order of the Securities and
Exchange Commission with respect thereto, dated June 18, 1996
("Order").
On July 1, 1996, EPI made a cash payment to Entergy in the
amount of $50,000,000 out of EPI's unearned surplus. After
giving effect to this payment, EPI is permitted under the Order
to make additional payments to Entergy out of EPI's unearned
surplus in an aggregate amount not to exceed $5,000,000 from time
to time through December 31, 1998.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned companies have caused
this certificate to be executed this 15th day of August, 1996.
ENTERGY CORPORATION
By: /s/ Michael G. Thompson
Michael G. Thompson
Senior Vice President,
General Counsel & Secretary
ENTERGY POWER, Inc.
By: /s/ Michael G. Thompson
Michael G. Thompson
Vice President and Secretary
