February 28, 1998
File No. 69-380
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C., 20549
FORM U-3A-2
Statement by Holding Company Claiming Exemption Under Rule U-3A-2
from the Provisions of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935
To Be Filed Annually Prior to March `1
CATALYST VIDALIA HOLDING CORPORATION
(Name of Company)
hereby files with the Securities Exchange Commission, pursuant to
Rule 2, its statement claiming exemption as a holding company
from the provisions of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of
1935, and submits the following information:
1. Name, State of organization, location and nature of
business of claimant and every subsidiary thereof, other than any
exempt wholesale generator (EWG) or foreign utility company in
which claimant directly or indirectly holds an interest.
See Attachment A
2. A brief description of the properties of claimant and
each of its subsidiary public utility companies used for the
generation, transmission, and distribution of electric energy for
sale, or for the production, transmission, and distribution of
natural or manufactured gas, indicating the location of principal
generating plants, transmission lines, producing fields, gas
manufacturing plants, and electric and gas distribution
facilities, including all such properties which are outside the
State in which claimant and its subsidiaries are organized and
all transmission or pipelines which deliver or receive electric
energy or gas at the borders of such State.
See Attachment A
3. The following information for the last calendar year
with respect to claimant and each of its subsidiary public
utility companies:
(a) Number of kwh. of electric energy sold (at retail or
wholesale), and Mcf. of natural or manufactured gas distributed
at retail.
Sold 1,004,291,000 kwh. of electric energy at wholesale.
(b) Number of kwh. of electric energy and Mcf. of natural
or manufactured gas distributed at retail outside the State in
which each such company is organized.
Sold no kwh. of electric energy or Mcf. of natural or
manufactured gas distributed at retail outside Louisiana.
(c) Number of kwh. of electric energy and Mcf. of natural
or manufactured gas sold at wholesale outside the State in which
each such company is organized, or at the State line.
Sold no kwh. of electric energy of Mcf. of natural or
manufactured gas at wholesale outside Louisiana, or at the
Louisiana State line.
(d) Number of kwh. of electric energy and Mcf. of natural
or manufactured gas purchased outside the State in which each
such company is organized or at the State line. See attachment
A.
Purchased no kwh. of electric energy or Mcf. of natural or
manufactured gas outside Louisiana, or at the Louisiana
State line.
4. The following information for the reporting period with
respect to claimant and each interest it holds directly or
indirectly in an EWG or a foreign utility company, stating
monetary amounts in United States dollars:
(a) Name, location, business address and description of the
facilities used by the EWG or foreign utility company for the
generation, transmission and distribution of electric energy for
sale or for the distribution at retail of natural or manufactured
gas.
None
(b) Name of each system company that holds an interest in
such EWG or foreign utility company; and description of the
interest held.
None
(c) Type and amount of capital invested, directly or
indirectly, by the holding company claiming exemption; any direct
or indirect guarantee of the security of the EWG or foreign
utility company by the holding company claiming exemption; and
any debt or other financial obligation for which there is
recourse, directly or indirectly, to the holding company claiming
exemption or another system company, other than the EWG or
foreign utility company.
None
(d) Capitalization and earnings of the EWG or foreign
utility company during the reporting period.
Not applicable
(e) Identify any service, sales or construction contract(s)
between the EWG or foreign utility company and a system company,
and describe the services to be rendered or goods sold and fees
or revenues under such agreement(s).
Not applicable
EXHIBIT A
A consolidating statement of income and surplus of the
claimant and its subsidiary companies for the last calendar year,
together with a consolidating balance sheet of claimant and its
subsidiary companies as of the close of such calendar year.
Consolidated and consolidating financial statements of the
claimant as of the close of the 1997 calendar year will be filed
when they become available.
The above-named claimant has caused this statement to be
duly executed on its behalf by its authorized officer on this
27th day of February, 1998.
Catalyst Vidalia Holding Corporation
(Name of claimant)
By
Jack R. Sauer
Vice President
CORPORATE SEAL
Attest:
Ronald W. Cantwell
President
Name, title, and address of officer to whom notices and
correspondence concerning this statement should be addressed:
Jack R. Sauer Vice President
(Name) (Title)
245 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10167
(Address)
EXHIBIT B Financial Data Schedule
If, at the time a report on this form is filed, the
registrant is required to submit this report and any amendments
thereto electronically via EDGAR, the registrant shall furnish a
Financial Data Schedule. The Schedule shall set forth the
financial and other data specified below that are applicable to
the registrant on a consolidated basis.
Item No. Caption Heading
1 Total Assets
2 Total Operating Revenues
3 Net Income
Not applicable
EXHIBIT C
An organizational chart showing the relationship of each EWG
or foreign utility company to associate companies in the holding
company system.
See attached Exhibit C
CATALYST VIDALIA CORPORATION
and
CATALYST VIDALIA HOLDING CORPORATION
Form U-3A-2
Filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission
For the Year Ended
December 31, 1994
CATALYST VIDALIA HOLDING CORPORATION
Statement by Claimant
1. Catalyst Vidalia Holding Corporation (the"Claimant") is a
Louisiana corporation. The Claimant's location is 245 Park
Avenue, New York, New York 10167. The nature of its
business is a 100% ownership interest in Catalyst Vidalia
Corporation, a Louisiana corporation ("Catalyst Vidalia"),
which owns a 50% interest in, and 100% of the voting
securities of, Catalyst Old River Hydroelectric Limited
Partnership, a Louisiana limited partnership in commendam
(the "Partnership"). The Partnership is located at Old
River Control Complex, North Highway 15, Lettsworth,
Louisiana 70753, and the nature of its business is ownership
of a lessee interest in, and the operation of, 192 megawatt
hydroelectric facility. Further information regarding the
business of the Partnership is contained in Note 2 below.
2. The Claimant acquired, and currently owns, 100% of the
issued and outstanding stock of Catalyst Vidalia from
Catalyst Energy Corporation on November 5, 1991.
Catalyst Vidalia is the sole general partner of the
Partnership. Catalyst Vidalia owns a 50% interest in the
Partnership and, as sole general partner, 100% of the voting
securities of the Partnership.
The Partnership's assets consist of a leasehold interest in
a 192 MW run-of-river hydroelectric facility located in
Concordia Parish (near Vidalia), Louisiana, approximately
one mile north of the Army Corps of Engineers Old River
Control Complex between the Mississippi River and the
Red/Atchafalaya Rivers. The Project consists of an intake
channel 4,500 feet in length, a power plant containing eight
bulb turbines with a total installed capacity of 192 MW, and
a power discharge channel 10,000 feet in length discharging
into the Old River Outflow Channel. The Project discharges
the flows that otherwise would be passed through the Low
Sill Structure of the Old River Control Structure. A single
40-mile, 115-KV transmission line connects the Project with
Louisiana Power and Light's existing substation, just west
of Vidalia.
In August 1990, the Partnership sold and leased back its
interest in the Project to and from a group of financial
institutions. The original term of the lease is 30 years,
subject to certain renewal options. Under the lease and
related agreements, the Partnership was granted certain
options to purchase the Project from the lessors. These
agreements also impose certain restrictions on the operation
of the Project by the Partnership, and generally require
that revenues form Project operations be used to pay
operating and maintenance expenses, rent, royalty and
related obligations before they may be distributed to the
partners of the Partnership.
Attachment A
The Catalyst Group of Companies
Ronald W. Cantwell
(Individual-100% common stock)
|
The Catalyst Group, Inc.
(100% common stock) (LA)
|
Catalyst Vidalia
Acquisition Corporation
---(100% common stock) (LA)---
| | |
| | |
Century Power Catalyst Vidalia | CatalystWaste
Corp. exempt Holding Corp. |--to-Energy
wholesale 100% c/s)(LA) | Corp (DE)
generator | |
Owns 100% | |
CVHC Prefd Catalyst Vidalia |CatalystEnergy
(100% c/s) Corporation |--Construction
(LA) (50% GP)(LA) | Corp(DE)
| | |
| | |
| Catalyst Old |--Obermeryer
Rincon | River | Hydraulic
Resources---| Hydroelectric LP | Turbines Ltd.
(AZ) | (LA LP) | (CT)
| |
Madera | |
Resources---| | Catalyst
(AZ) | Energy
|--Systems Corp
| (DE)
|
|
| Catalyst
|--Construction
Corp.of CT
(DE)