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January 22, 1997
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20549-1004
ATTN: Ms. Patsy Mengiste
Document Control - EDGAR
Re: American Enterprise Variable Annuity Account
(AEL Bank Variable Annuity)
Accession Number: 0000820027-97-000026
Dear Ms. Mengiste:
Registrant hereby respectfully requests that you disregard the N-4
EL filing transmitted on Jan. 22, 1997. It was inadvertently filed
without the EDGAR redlining tags.
A revised version of this filing with the redlining tags will be
filed on or about January 22, 1997.
Sincerely,
Colin M. Lancaster
Associate Counsel
CML/TM/rdh
