[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 165 (Thursday, August 26, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52533-52534]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E4-1931]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 35-27884]


Filings Under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as 
Amended (``Act'')

August 19, 2004.
    Notice is hereby given that the following filing(s) has/have been 
made with the Commission pursuant to provisions of the Act and rules 
promulgated under the Act. All interested persons are referred to the 
application(s) and/or declaration(s) for complete statements of the 
proposed transaction(s) summarized below. The application(s) and/or 
declaration(s) and any amendment(s) is/are available for public 
inspection through the Commission's Branch of Public Reference.
    Interested persons wishing to comment or request a hearing on the 
application(s) and/or declaration(s) should submit their views in 
writing by September 10, 2004, to the Secretary, Securities and 
Exchange Commission, Washington, DC 20549-0609, and serve a copy on the 
relevant applicant(s) and/or declarant(s) at the address(es) specified 
below. Proof of service (by affidavit or, in the case of an attorney at 
law, by certificate) should be filed with the request. Any request for 
hearing should identify specifically the issues of facts or law that 
are disputed. A person who so requests will be notified of any hearing, 
if ordered, and will receive a copy of any notice or order issued in 
the matter. After September 10, 2004, the application(s) and/or 
declaration(s), as filed or as amended, may be granted and/or permitted 
to become effective.

NiSource Inc., et al. (70-10169)

    NiSource Inc. (``NiSource''), a registered public-utility holding 
company, Northern Indiana Public Service Company (``Northern 
Indiana''), Kokomo Gas and Fuel Company (``Kokomo''), Northern Indiana 
Fuel and Light Company, Inc. (``NIFL''), all public-utility company 
subsidiaries of NiSource, EnergyUSA, Inc., and its subsidiaries, PEI 
Holdings, Inc. (formerly known as Primary Energy, Inc.), NiSource 
Capital Markets, Inc. (``Capital Markets''), NiSource Corporate 
Services Company (``NiSource Services''), a subsidiary service company, 
NiSource Finance Corp. (``NiSource Finance''), Granite State 
Transmission, Inc., Crossroads Pipeline Company, NiSource Development 
Company, Inc., and its subsidiaries, NI Energy Services, Inc., and its 
subsidiaries, NiSource Energy Technologies, Inc., Columbia Assurance 
Agency, Inc., NiSource Retail Services Inc. (``Retail Services''), IWC 
Resources Corporation and its subsidiaries, Columbia Energy Group 
(``Columbia''), a registered public-utility holding company, Columbia 
Atlantic Trading Corporation, Columbia Deep Water Services Company, 
Columbia Energy Services Corporation and Columbia Remainder Corporation 
and its subsidiary, all located at 801 East 86th Avenue, Merrillville, 
Indiana 46410-6272; Bay State Gas Company (``Bay State''), Northern 
Utilities, Inc. (``Northern Utilities''), both gas utility companies, 
located at 300 Friberg Parkway, Westborough, Massachusetts 01581-5039; 
Columbia Gas of Kentucky, Inc. (``Columbia Kentucky''), Columbia Gas of 
Maryland, Inc. (``Columbia Maryland''), Columbia Gas of Ohio, Inc. 
(``Columbia Ohio''), Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, Inc. (``Columbia 
Pennsylvania''), Columbia Gas of Virginia, Inc. (``Columbia 
Virginia''), all gas utility companies, and Columbia of Ohio 
Receivables Corporation (formerly known as Columbia Accounts Receivable 
Corporation), 200 Civic Center Drive, Columbus, Ohio 43215; Columbia 
Gas Transmission Corporation, located at 12801 Fair Lakes Parkway, 
Fairfax, Virginia 22030-0146; Columbia Gulf Transmission Company, 
located at 2603 Augusta, Suite 125, Houston, Texas 77057; Columbia 
Network Services Corporation and its subsidiary, both located at 1600 
Dublin Road, Columbus, Ohio 43215-1082; and NiSource Insurance 
Corporation Limited, located at 20 Parliament Street, P.O. Box HM 649, 
Hamilton HM CX, Bermuda (collectively ``Applicants''), have filed a 
post-effective amendment, as amended (``Application''), with the 
Commission under sections 6(a), 7, 9(a), 10, 12(b) and 12(f) of the Act 
and rule 54.
    NiSource, directly and indirectly owns ten public utility 
subsidiary companies: Northern Indiana, Kokomo, NIFL, Bay State, 
Northern Utilities, Columbia Kentucky, Columbia Maryland, Columbia 
Ohio, Columbia Pennsylvania and Columbia Virginia (collectively, 
``Utility Subsidiaries''). By order dated December 30, 2003 (NiSource, 
Inc., et al., Holding Co. Act Release No. 27789) (``Prior Order''), the 
Commission authorized NiSource, the Utility Subsidiaries and certain of 
NiSource's nonutility subsidiaries to engage in a program of financing, 
to organize and acquire the securities of certain new subsidiaries, to 
engage in certain nonutility businesses and to engage in other related 
transactions in the ordinary course of business. Specifically, among 
other things, NiSource, the Utility Subsidiaries and certain of the 
nonutility subsidiaries were authorized to participate in the NiSource 
System Money Pool (``Money Pool'').\1\ The participating NiSource 
subsidiaries were authorized to make borrowings from each other and 
from NiSource Finance Corp., a financing subsidiary of NiSource, 
through the Money Pool.
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    \1\ By the Prior Order, no further Commission authorization is 
required for any new subsidiary of NiSource to participate in the 
Money Pool as a lender only. For the terms of the NiSource System 
Money Pool Agreement, see also, NiSource, Inc., et al., Holding Co. 
Act Release Nos. 27479 (December 21, 2001), 27535 (June 3, 2002), 
27559 (August 8, 2002).
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    NiSource now requests that Retail Services and Central Kentucky 
Transmission Company (``Central Kentucky'') be permitted to be

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borrowers in the Money Pool.\2\ Applicants also request that the 
Commission reserve jurisdiction over the participation of any other 
current or future direct or indirect nonutility subsidiary of NiSource 
as a borrower in the Money Pool.
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    \2\ Both subsidiaries will be lenders to the Money Pool, as 
well.
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    Retail Services, incorporated in November 2003 and an ``energy-
related company'' under rule 58, renders energy-management services, 
sells, installs, and/or services standard gas and electric appliances, 
and provides other technical services, including, without limitation, 
in-house gas line maintenance and repair services. Central Kentucky, a 
new nonutility to be established as a subsidiary of Columbia Kentucky, 
will be a ``gas-related company'' under rule 58, organized by Columbia 
Kentucky to acquire and hold a 25% undivided interest in a segment of 
Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation's interstate pipeline and 
facilities located in Kentucky. Central Kentucky's pipeline will 
provide gas transportation service to Columbia Kentucky and 
unaffiliated third parties.

    For the Commission, by the Division of Investment Management, 
pursuant to delegated authority.
Margaret H. McFarland,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. E4-1931 Filed 8-25-04; 8:45 am]
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