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| number = ML20071M119
| issue date = 04/07/1983
| title = Annual Financial Rept 1982.W/830407 1tr
| author name = Booker J, Lee N, Murrill P
| author affiliation = GULF STATES UTILITIES CO.
| addressee name = Denton H
| addressee affiliation = NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION (NRR)
| docket = 05000458, 05000459
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| document report number = RBG-14-762, NUDOCS 8305310102
| document type = ANNUAL REPORTS (COMPANY-FINANCIAL), TEXT-SAFETY REPORT
| page count = 46
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{{#Wiki_filter:b      4 GULF STATES                UTILITIES COMPANY egy POST OFFICE BOX 2951          = OEAUMONT. TEXAS 77704 AREA CODE 713 838-3843 April 7, 1983 RBG-14,762 File No. G9.5 Mr. Harold R. Denton Director, Nuclear Reactor Regulation U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20555

==Dear Mr. Denton:==

River Bend Station Units 1 and 2 Docket Nos. 50-458/50-459 Annual Financial Report Enclosed are ten (10) copies of the Gulf States Utilities Company 1982 Annual Report. This report is being submitted in accordance with Section 50.71 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations and U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Regulatory
 , Guide 10.1.
Sincerely, c'     dok,     '
J. E. Boolder Manager-Engineering, Nuclear Fuels & Licensing River Bend Nuclear Group JEB/WJR/kt Enclosures
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Our basic strategy to meet these Doubtlewly, hom all the new spaper.
energy needs is asoidmg additional teles ision and new s maca/ine stones in dependence on natural gas as our future 1982, the Amenean people are gettmg the unmntakable mewage that our men                 prime f uel source to make electricity.
In the long-tenu gas will increasingly In is in a ivriod of tundamental eco-              be one of the most expensise f uels we nomic change. It n a fomiof change could use to make electncity. Consersely.
that offers many complex nsues, none coal and uramum will be among the least oIwhich has more tacets and nuances espensise and that is why we are turn-to it than encrpy supply.
ing to them.
For instance. in 1982 our customers                 Whde there are many valid siew-along the Texas-Louisiana Gult Coast were treated to a seenungly endlew                  points in the energy supply iwue. it is unfortunate that the pohtical debate of "od glut" that put gasoline pnees mto the subjett continues to restit in sugges-dechne. In pomt of f act, the od glut n tions, potential solutions and decisions at least the partial result of Americans' that are tar too otten aimed at the shon-transition to smaller. more etlicient cars          term f uture. At Gull States, we. too. see and other consen ation measures These, many nagging short-tenu problems. but m tum, caused decreased use of pro-w hen we step back f rom our immedute cewed petroleum pnslucts which forced circumstances and new the long-tenn some retinenes into mothballt and others to cunad production. Od and gas              prospects the course that Gutt States adopted ses eral y ears ago looks mcreas-esploration slowed and created a sub-stantul recewinn for that part of the              ingly accurate.                                       r De course is a long-tenu and sery mdustn as well as its supphert Dunng expensise construction program that has the same penod that dnlling w as talhng begun to btar fruit and will ultimately of1. there w as aa almost contradicton and steady increase in natural pas pnces            sase our customers bdlions of dollars in because of the tederal gosernment's                 tuel costs by linuting our need for nat-ural eat That sas ing will in tum, help ma/c of natural cas pncing regulations.
our customers be economically competi-       .
Despite the array of forces that butfet tis e w hich pros ides the basis for the the economic picture, it is esident that long-tenu crowth of Gutt States The Gull States Utihties as a pnme suppher first significant step awa) from natural of electricity in a 2X.msquare-mile gas occurred in May when we began area of Southeast Tesas and South                   the commercial operation of the 5S)-
tvuniana, must play a major role m the megaw att coal-tired Nelson 6 generating economic recosen and long-tenn well unit near lake Charles. la Esen though being of this area Ilut we must do this it uas in operation for only about half while operating with stringent self-the year, it supplied four percent ot the imposed cost controls to conduct our energy we generated in 19S2. If that businew at the lowest cost consstent                 energy had been generated with market with de[vndable sen ice. While the sen - priced pas instead of coal. it woulJ hase ice area is in a general recewion. we cost our customers an extra 524 million continue to add new customers at about              in tuel costs. We ow n 70 per;ent of three percent per year, and they must receise the electricity they need if there         this unit.
Later this year, we anticipate that a is to be economic recos ery and long-second coal-tired plant. in w hich we tenn economic prosperity in our area.
has e a 42 percent ownership interest.
will begin commercial operation. It is the thg Cajun 2. Unit 3. a 5S)-megaw att coal-tired plant near New Roads. La.
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In 19S4, we plan to put into operation      past, and electne utihties are becoming
(     a transmission line that will tie Gulf           more and more a focal point for publie States to utilities in Mississippi, Alabama, debate, we determined during the y ear l
i Georgia and Florida. Under the tenns of          that our management group could ne a contract between GSU and the South-            strengthened by putting seseral tradi-em Companies,1000 megaw atts of pre-             tionally separate corporate disciphnes dominantly coal-generated pow er w ill            under one senior otticer. In October,                         g%
l flow mto the GSU sy stem from Southem            Dr. E. Linn Draper, Jr., a senior dce                         F/. bT Companies' units in Missiwippi and                president and nationally noted expert                       _k Alabama. GSU and the Southern Com-panies has e signed a contract that w ill and communicator on nuclear pim er issues, w as named senior s ice president p
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bring this electricity, made from rela-           of extemal atf airs. In his new position, tisely cheap tuel, to our customers               he will coordinate the public aff airs, through mid-1992.                                 rates and legal departments.
Our final major mose an a) f rom nat-           In an unrelated. but significant devel ural gas in the near f uture w ill be made       opment that potentially may be sery in 19S5 w hen the 940-megaw att Ris er            beneticial to customers, we beliese a Ilend 1 nuclear unit near 13aton Rouge,          settlement is quite close in a long-         y l                                                                                                  ~
I a., is scheduled for commercial opera-         standing law suit betw een Gult States tion. GSU ou ns more than two-thirds             and United Gas Pipe Line Company.            [.
of that unit. flhe details of the utrious        The suit centers on natural gas cunail-      C generating unit panicipation agreements          ments put into ef fect by United Gas in are in the Construction section of this          the early 1970's, w hich forced GSU to                                        ' -! -
report. )                                        purchase much more expensis e f uel on The sum total of these projects will       the open market. The tentatise agree-                                       ,%
be to move the company f rom being ennrely reliant on natural gas and oil to a ment calls for United to make a cash pay ment of 5112 million, extend an hd position in which less than halt the kilo-        existing contract w ith Gulf States for                                              U watt hours sold in 19S6 may be gener-             tise years, and begin supplying gas to       Paul W Murnil (seated) and Norman R. Lee ated from natural gas.                            our Texas units in 19S5 for a 10-) ear Cenainly, such an ambitious program         period. A more detailed discuwion of requires major capital expenditures that          this issue is cos cred in the Efficiency I
ultimately will be retletted in higher            section of this report.
electric rates. These higher rates are a              In closing, let us urge y ou to read the mandate to the company to operate in             remainder of this repon that documents the most financially lean manner pos-             1982. It w as a sear in w hich the 4h00 sible to minimi/e the costs to our               employees of Oult States contributed customers-                                        substantially to the long-tenn success of I rom this plan for the f uture, let u'     the company, and it w as a y ear in w hich tum to the recent past, the results of            thes can be proud of their achiesements.
19S2. Eamings for the y ear ended                On'the pages that follow, you will has e a Dec. 31,19S2, w ere 51.95 per share of           chance to meet a few of those people.
I  common stock w hich is a dechne from              and perhaps, get a sense of the magni-the 52 24 earned in 19S1. It should be           tude and disersits of the work Gulf noted that the 19S2 earnings retlect only         States' people do.
a nunor ponion of the more than 5150 milhon in rate increases the company             Sincerely, receis ed in the second half of 1952 Diudends of 51.56 per common                       6tdne2.w                    -
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\                                                   Prenh nt and Clue l l       llecause increasing electric bills are      (>peratmv (1//i. < r attecting customers more than in years N _,         &              v_ x -
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Sales declined from the 30.7 billion kilo-                        For 1982 earnings were $1.95 per                                                                              I watt hours recorded in 1981 to 29 billion                      share of common stock compered to kilowatt hours in 1982. The decrease was $2.24 for the previous year. Earnings for due primanly to low er industrial sales                        the last quarter of 1982 were 53 cents per w hich consistently remained about nine                        common share compared to 37 cents for percent below the 1981 levels. Aho,                            the corwsponfr.g period in 1981. he w holesale electne sales were substan-                         decrease in earnings per share in 1982 tially less than 1981 because during the                       was primarily attnbutable to a 21 percent first half of 1981 we supplied about 262                       increase in average shares outstanding in                                   ,
megawatts of power to a neighboring                             1982, lower kilowatt hour sales in 1982, utility. When the other utility brought a                      and lack of adequate rate relief until the                            1O new generating unit into operation, our                        last half of 1982. De 1981 camings sales ceased to that utility and, of course,                   benefited from a 14 cent per share gain                                J          s did not recur in 1982.                                         attributable to a lignite coal exchange                      ,
Somewhat offsetting these declines                        between a GSU subsidiary and another                                ,
w ere four and live percent increases in                       company. 'n he dividend was M.56 per sales to commercial and residential                            share of common stock in 1932 com-classes of customers respectively. Rese                        pared to $1.48 in 1981.
increases were attributable to growth in                          To finance the company's 1982 con-the number of customers in both classes                        stmetion program, w hich included por-                                    ,
as w ell as increased use per customer.                        tions of two coal-tired generating units A definitive breakdow n of electricity                    and one nuclear facility, we issued more use by class of customer as well as aver-                      than $490 million in tirst mortgage age customer use is available in the                           bonds, guaranteed debentures, common            Joseph L. Donneny Statistical Summary on page 42 of this                         stock and preference stock. Early in            Executive Vice Presdent-Finance report.                                                         1982, w hen the capital markets were Trending with the sales decrease was a                    unstable, we backstopped the company's l   decrease in earnings per share.                                long-range financing program by estab-I lishing an $800 million revolving credit i                                                                  agreement between Gulf States and more than 100 domestic and intemational banks. The agreement calls for three different interest rate options from w hich we can choose, and the agreement but-tresses our financing plans through the anticipated completion of the River llend nuclear unit in 1985 by providing a source of intermediate capital during periods of long-term capital market turbulence.
Specifically, our 1982 long-term construction financing took the form of nine different issues dunng the course of the year.
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* 527 million, first mortgage bond 3          greatly less dependent on natural gas led with an annual interest rate of 16.8     to the costly construction program w e percent.                                 began in 1978. While we are beginning
* 540 million, first mortgage bonds          to see results from that program, it will with an annual interest rate of 17.5     continue to require hundreds of millions                                                            ,
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stated value preference stock sold       periodic requests for rate increases and            i@um.sms _                                      q 5
for $27.50 per share with a $4.40         1982 was no exception.                                   Dems                                       i annual disidend yielding 16 percent            De Liuisiana Public Sersice Com-              [ 88                                             i at issue. The 52.50 premium, after        mission, the Public Utility C mmission             [                                                j expenses, w as added to common            of Texas and the Federal Energy Regula-
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public.                                   requested $230.4 million sought by                  ; ; ,,                                t          -
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sale of 2.3 million pounds of uranium                ings or negotiations w ere completed. It            t appears that the linal negotiated amount              i yellowcake for $109 million. Under terms of the transaction, the fuel will be           of the rate increase may be somewhat                 [ tm                                 74 pp f E # 5
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                                .g~                                   yF? 2                                          service area burgeoned through-i e .l,h       out the '70's. In the 10-year period f                                           '_                            i'MOJy,gda   from 1972 to 1982, our peak load x
and energy distnbuted grew at a compound annual growth rate of
                                                        ,                        ly                     'L           3.7 percent. However, in 1982, j                                           -                    ?
there was a significant downtum if                                       as the recession slipped through
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jw,4 -l the Sunbelt.
a                                    Today, our service area econ-4   ,
gg [ ~                      omy continues to grow in the com-L$                                           -                               mercial and residential areas, but s                                   the industnal segment suffers, par-ticularly for those who staked their
                                            ,                                                                        livelihood on the oil and gas indus-tnes including petrochemicals.
                   - .                                                                                                   While statistical evidence does j                                                                                   not yet support any contention of recovery, it is clear that the reces-sion has bottomed out and there
                                                                                            <                         are trace signs of a beginning recovery                              l Most encouraging is a growing
                                               ,                                                                      attitude of cooperat:on across the
                                                 - g                                                                  service area between labor and M _xp , ,._           .-                                          management. It is an attitude that
                                                          *'"                                                         we must all work together to make recovery work.
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a                                                                                        Our service area is sprinkled with excellent colleges and univer-A sities irv ding Louisiana State University and Texas A&M Univer-sity that have potential to draw new h;gh technology industry At the same time, the natural resources along the Texas / Louisiana Gulf Coast simply are too abundant to be ignored by the basic industnes that are located here to draw upon them in the first place.

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In the area of operations,19S2 w as                   De marketing program has tw o dis-characterized by a decreased use of clee-          tinct components. De first is a major tricity and a decreased peak load. Our            economic development effort aimed at customers consumed about 29 billion                bringing new and diversified industry kilowatt hours of electricity in 1982 as          into the area we senc. A similar pro-compared to 30.7 billion kilowatt hours            gram w as eminently successful a decade in 19S1, w hich is a 5.6 percent decline.         ago when the company was actisely Peak demand for the year was 51M                  tn ing to build load. Five major deep-megaw atts August 5 compared to 5542              water pons with adjacent industnal sites,                                                     i megaw atts in 19SI, representing a seven          responsise hical governments, outstand-percent decrease.                                 ing colleges and unisersities and excel-                     ...
While customer demand for electric-           lent transponation are successful selling points to industry.
ity did not put any undue strain on the                                                          -
company's generating facihties in 1982.                He second aspect is to increase the                           ,
it w as encouraging to see that the gener-        use of outdoor lighting-street, security, ating units were available for use during          and floodlighting-along w ith greater                                                        s the hot summer months more than 83                use of electne heat pumps. He heat                                  .
percent of the time. That u as a con-             pumps are receising special emphasis                      ,
tmued improvement oser previous                   because they use electricity efficiently years' " peak availability".                      during the summer when they are in the               p$                 j        .
An equally good indicator of our sy s-        cooling c)cle and they etticiently replace              [.                          ,
tem operations w as a report published in         other fonus of home heating in the win-                                                           -
mid-1982 by the First Boston Corpora-             ter. Heat pumps will help build the elee-tion research group. He repon, w hich             trie load on our system in the off-peak       Joseph E. Bondurant w as an in-depth analy sis of 75 major            winter months.                                Executwe %ce President-Operations electrie utihties in the United States,                Re overall marketing program con-                                                               i ranked Gulf States number one in sys-             tinues to emphasize customer education tem efficiency. De ranking is based on             in the efficient use of energy. Tow ard a number of criteria including heat rate,         that end, consumer education programs load factor, capacity factor and several           increased by more than one-third in our others.                                            operating dis isions last y ear and there Cenainly efficient operations are               w as a doubling of school programs.                                                                l important to us, but the matter of declin-          Also, more than 300 science teachers                                                               I ing sales in a serv ce area that has felt           panicipated in the 1982 Thomas Alva the effects of the national recession is            Edison Foundation Science Institute equally imponant. Ilowever, it is imper-            held at Lamar University in Beaumont.                                                              l atis e to address the problem of decreased              Efficient use of our generating sy stem sales without being counterpnductive                is important to produce the minimum i in our energy conservation efforts. We             cost for electricity to our customers.
l have achieved this balance by moving                improvemtnt of our service area econ-1 into a very selectise marketing program            omy and da eloping additional load that aimed at increasing the sy stem load fac-          occurs at times w hen otherwise some of tor by building off-peak electric sales.           our generating units would not be fully i
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fo gauge our ef fectis eness in these                        Two programs hase been staned to areas, we calculate how much it costs in                       help minimi/c the effect of higher elec-the areas of customer sen ice, transmis-                       trie bills on our elderly customers. One sion and distnbution, and pniduction to                        came about w hen we realized that there sen e one customer. At the beginning of                        w ere many retired customers w ho had 1982, through the budgeting process, we                       pixwl credit records w ith us, but w ho established stnngent goals in each of                          w ere w orried because of ten their pen-                                                                                , , , , (([~ ~ ]
those areas on a cost per customer basis.                      sion or Social Security checks were                                                                               l,        '1 -
Ihe goals for 1952 were not only met,                         receis ed af ter their electrie bills became but exceeded, w hich is a tnbute to the                                                                                                                                             sessmH j!
os erdue. To stop this needless v.orry, we                                                                                                                   '
dihgence and understandmg of all                               instituted a com enient pay ment program
                                                                                                                                                                                       !      8 employ ees that in an era of increasing                        for those customers. Atter they sign up electneity costs, we must do esery thing                       for the program, their pay ment due dates                                                                                a possible to minimi/e expenses.                                 are matched with the time they receise
          'Ihese results wcre reali/cd by a num.                     their pension check, so the needless                                                                                     a ber of methnh that included lYoductis.                         w orry is ehminated.
its improsement lYoprams in all tise                               The secor.1 program n of a much larger magmtude and is called Project of our operating dnisions in these programs, employ ees are ins ited to                           CARli. With $19 Ull10 of shareholder dncuss ideas and methods thes think                            money authorized in Januan 19S3 by                                                                                       a may impros e the way a certain job pres.                      the board of directors as seed money, ent!) is being done. Abnost without fail,                      Gulf States and three social senice                                                                                      ,
w hen these ideas are put into ettect, pro _                  agencies in our service area began a pro-ductis ity is, mdeed, increased and                            gram to identify and assht elderly cus-8 costs pe'r customer decreased                                  tomers with emergency energy-related Operating expenses were cut in                             expenses. A Ilyer explaining Pro.iect CARE was included with Febmary Gult                                                                                       8 anotaer area atter an anah sis w as done to detennine if there was a particular                         States' bill pay ment and it insites cus-                                                                         ,
IlIlIi ty pe of customer w ho might leas e the                        tomers to add one dollar to their monthly                                                                                  -             -                -
area with an outstanding balance owed                         electrie bills. Gulf States employees can the company. Not surpnsingly, it w as                          contnbute through payroll deductions.
3      found that there were mans bad debts                          lhe money collected for Project CARii                                                                              r-                           -
incurred by shon-tenu, transient custom.                       will be distnbuted on an emergency ers w ho might stay in the area only two                       basis by the social sen ice agencies. It                                                                             ,     q; ;y er three months. Collection pokeies on                         w ill help elderly peopic pay for electrie                                                                          %
these customers were tightened and in                          and gas senice bilh, costs of other                                                                                    ese 1982 bad debts were only .35 percent                          fuels suth as propane or butane, minor of total residential and conunercial                           wcatherization work and repairs to cool-                                                                                                             -
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3 Asoneof thelargestusersof                                                       "E naturalgasin the worid, Gulf States always shops forthe                                                      M lowest prices, soitwas 3 ratifying                                              5 to readin the Department of Ener-                                               3 gyh" Cost and Quality of Fuels for                                               a Electnc Utility Plants"that GSU                                                     ,
paidless for naturalgasin the                                                       s summer of 1982 than did any                                                     =
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utility that relies heavily on gas.                                             s The monthly report contains data on cost, quality and quantity                                              _=
of coal, gas and oilpurchased                                                   y by electric utilities throughout the                                                -
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country, Gulf States paid theleast                                                =
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Nationally,the average price paid by utilities for naturalgasin                                               3
                                                                                                  ,                                                    themonthof August-thehighest                                                       1 electricity use month forour cus-                                                 -j tomers-was $3.67 per thousand                                                   a cubic feet. Gulf States paid $1.56                                                 -a per thousand cubic feet and other                                                 i utilities' cost rangedupwardtoa                                                 a high of $5.51 perthousand cubic E
feet recorded by aWestCoast                                                      g utility.                                                                         m Ourcosts remainlow because,                                                 2 almost20 years ago,we negoti-ated avery favorable contractthat is still in effect today. During these                                           %
years ourcustomers have saved billionsof dollara because of this                                               ];
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The extraordinary efliciency and reli-        States and United Gas Pipe Line Com-
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I      industry did not just happen. It is the      instituted by United in the early 1970's.                                                                    I j     culmination of decades of dedicated          Parties to the suit are in general agree-effort by hundreds of thousands of peo-      ment to the tenns of settlement. The leu-                                                                    l ple. In an era w hen electricity and other   isiana Public Sen ice Commission, w hich l
fonns of energy have become much             intenened in the suit on behalf of GSU            .
                                                                                                                    -         at . g more expensive than the American pub-        customers, has been advised by its out-               -
lie sees as reasonable, it requires more     side counsel and retained experts that the 4
effort to keep costs as low as possible to   tenns and conditions of the settlement I     the customers.                               are in the best interest of our customers.
)           Dunng 1982, the rate of increase in     While the settlement is still subject to natural gas prices slow ed, presenting us    certain conditions, Gulf States believes it j
j       with new opportunities to moderate fuel      will become effective. The settlement              v l     costs fo: our customers. The company          calls for United to make a $112 million i      still has in effect a major contract for     cash pay ment, which will be held in an                     .,
natural gas at a very favorable price.       interest-bearing escrow account until
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l      1his contract, coupled w ith the efforts      regulatory authorities can detennine how                               y
:      of our fuel buyers, has produced average      the money will be used to benefit Gulf                                 f natural gas costs that are among the         States customers.                                      ,
                                                                                                                                            \3 lowest in the natien.                           Other aspects of the settlement assure                          -
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i          Es en so, total fuel costs have been     Gulf States of a much more stable natu-                            ~
rising steadily as natural gas becomes       ral gas supply into the 1990s. One prosi-               _
1 l      moie expensive. In 1982, fuel costs were     sion calls for a United sister company,    Edward M. Loggins 48 percent of the company's operating        United Texas Transmission Company,         Execut.ve Mce Presiderd-Administratrve
 ,      expenses.                                    to begin supplying gas to GSU's Texas      and Technical Sennees                                            ,
A very significant and strategically     units for a 10-year period beginning                                                                        l l       important legal settlement was tentatively January 1,1985, which is the day the i       reached this I ebmary between Gulf           existing Exxon contract expires.
Also, United will extend its existing contract to supply GSU's Imuisiana generating units until 1992. Both United and United Texas will transport seme natural gas which GSU purchases from other companies.
GSU will pay for the United gas and other senices at rates comparable j                                                     to those paid by other large industrial customers.
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In an era of fundamental technologi.        Another area that has significant I              cal change, there is none that has more    potential for major cost sas ings is the present and pitential impact than the      results that may come from research and computer. We are now integrating data      development projects. One of the more
  !            processing, word processing and com-       promising projects we have underway, munications into one network called        and one in w hich Gulf States is a leader, OFFICE SYSTENIS. The results of            is investigating the use of micronized                I~                   ~ ~~~ ]
computer networking are sery high operational ef ficiencies coupled w ith coal as a boiler fuel. Tests conducted by GSU and others over the last several                   %.
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few er additional people will be needed   some power plant boilers. It could lead                         ,                                       y to manage an increasing w orkload.         to lower cost fuel for existing generators.           j                                                j Presently. OITICE SYSTEN1S allows       flowever, the p>tential for using micro-              4 us to forw ard mail electronically through nized coal is going to take considerable              ;          e                                      ;
computer tenninals, eliminates the         additional testing. This year w e intend to                                                             ,
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and offers a my nad of applications that   an industrial size boiler. If the results are         s-i impros e productis ity. The emphasis is to good, we will do more tests in larger                 <
personalize the computer sech that the     boilers. GSU, the Electric Power                      v                                                 ;
decision maker can interact with engi-     Research Institute and several other                  i.
j neenny or business models in onter to      companies are considenng a joint spon-                j.
test mlutions in seeking the best answer   sorship of this project.                              i~         r to problems.                                   Other smaller research projects the                                                                i company is conducting, and w hich may                                I hold long-temi benefits, include the                  j          e direct conversion of sunlight into elee-             1                 I .E l 5 I.                      t tricity and applications of wind power               6 --- ---
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                                                                                                                       ! nowcomes with adeselengme v                            l The deselis more expensive,but
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more complex and fragile,it would have to be replaced once or twice in that seven years,but not sowith the desel.The truckwillhave the same deselengneinit at the end of seven years thatit started with.
Plus, GSU mixes waste trans-formeroilwith deselfuelforthe truckfleet and that broughtthe cost pergallon down from $1.10 at the filling station to 56 centslast l, g-1 j
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To mangle an old saying,"Now, i = ct I                                                                       - .                                               you can get a GSU truckin any
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The company reached major milestones               Environmentally, the unit has been                                                                            i in its constmetion program in 1982, and        u ell accepted in Lake Charles and sur-                                                                           {
we saw the first significant steps taken       rounding communities. In fact, customer                                                                           {
toward our goal of reducing our depend-        attitude surveys indicate bke Charles ence on natura! gas with the completion        area residents base a higher regard for                                                                           l i
of the company's first coal-fired power        coal-fired power plants than do residents plant. It is the 540-n egawatt Nelson 6        in any other area that Gulf States serves.
unit built in conjunction with two affili. Nearly 68 percent of Lake Charles area                                                                            ,
ates of the Texas-based Sam Raybum             residents favor the use of coal w hile 63                  g                                                      !
Dam Electne Cooperatise. Gulf States           percent of all customers favor its use.                                                                           l owns 70 percent of the unit with Sam               A second coal-tired unit in which                                                                             l Raybum 51onicipal Power Agency                 GSU has a major interest is approaching                                                                           i owning 20 percent and Sam Ray bum              completion near New Roads, La., on the                                               i                             I G&T owning 10 percent.
Ireated near Lake Charles, La., the N1ississippi River. It is the Big Cajun 2, Unit 3, being constmeted by the Cajun        -
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the end of Slay, and by year's end had         a 42 percent ownership interest in the                                            (
produced nearly four percent of the com-       540-megawatt u.it that is more than pany's total kilowatt hours generated in       95 percent complete and should go into                               j 1982. Its completion was on schedule         commercial operation later this sear.                                           .
and close to budget with GSU providing         This unit will further reduce the com-l     about $315 million in direct constme-         pany's dependence on natural gas.                                            g.
l     tion costs.                                       In total, the GSU ow ned ponions of                                     -
l          Because we have made arrangements        the two coal-fired generating units will    wmiarnJ Cahm j     to purchase our partners' shares of the       represent about nine percent of the com-    Senior Vce President-River Bend unit's output for the next several years, it  pany's generating capacity when the Big     Nuclear Group is conceivable that the unit could praluce    Cajun unit is in commercial operation.
as much as !I percent of the kilowatt         floweser, it is our intention and Cajun's hours to be generated by GSU in 1983 at       intention to mn these units at full power a fuel cost of about one half that of mar-    as much of the time as possible because ket priced natural gas.                       of the lower fuel costs and that should The unit's appetite for coal will keep   make the units' contributions to total five,110-carunit trains shuttling between     sales larger than eight percent.
the power plant and the Gillette, Wyo.,           To continue the trend away from nat-coal mine. Each train carries about            ural gas, the company signed a contract i1,000 tons of coal to feed the plant, and   with the Southern Companies, w hich is the 18-story boiler at Nelson 6 can con-      a holding company for a group of Stis-sume about 338 tons of coal an hour           sissippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida when it is in full operation.                 utilities, to establish a major electric transmission intenie between GSU and Southern. The contract provides for Gulf States to buy 1000 megawatts of predominantly coal-fired power from                                                                              l Southern Companies subsidiary generat-ing units from 1984 through mid-1992.                                                                            ,
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sippi Power's Plant Daniel. Presently,                                          Additionally, the Nuclear Regulatory                                                                                                   _                 _ , _ , ,        ._
we have receised all the necessary per-                                         Commission, in its annual review of the                                                                                       t.               .       .
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mits to complete the GSU portion of the line to the N1ississippi border. Virtually plant construction, said "NRC attention should be maintained at normal levels" Q%$
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* 165,979                             150,931           117,189              84,181           70,146 Income Applicable to Common Stock                                 127,030                             120,550            92,309              68,559           59,156 Earnings Per Share of Common Stock:
Hased on average shares outstanding                                                    1.95              2.24              2.05               1.74            1.73 Assuming conversion of convertible debentures.                                         l.95               2.20              1.96              1.65            1.62 Diiidends Per Share of Common Stock                                                       I.56               1.48              1.39              1.36            1.24     c Total Assets                                                   3,806,111                            3,343,419         2,925,701           2,439,345       2,059,425 l
1.ong-Term Debt and Preferred Stock Subject to Mandatory Redemption .                                       1,771,078                           1,642,894         1,444,505           1,066,938         877,097        i l
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Common Shareholders' Equity                                                            36.0%              34.4 %            32.6%             35.6%           37.47r Preference Stock                                                                         3.2                -                 -                 -               -
I Preferred Stock (not subject to mandatory redemption)                                                                           4.3                5.0              5.8               7.3             7.4 Preferred Stock (subject to mandatory redemption)                                                                           5.6               6.5               7.5               4.0              1.9 1.ong-Term Debt                                                                       50.9               54.1              54.1              53.1            53.3       ,
Return on Aierage Common Equity .                                                       12.32              14.21             12.94             10.91           10.93 Book Value Per Share, end of year .                          $                          15.25 $            15.41 5           15.60 $           15.53 $         15.50
* See Note 2 to the Financial Statements for the proforma elTect of the change during 1981 in accounting for fuel costs.
Common Stock Prices and Cash Dividends Per Share For years ended December 31 Cash                                                                                              Cash t h,idends                                                                                         Dividends Paid                                                                                              Paid 19M2               liigh    im*       Per Share                                              19M1                      Iligh     low     Per Share d
Fourth Quarter               $14      $12           $.39                                    Fourth Quarter                       $12% $10%            $.37 Third Quarter                    13%     11%           .39                                  Third Quarter                           12%       10%        .37 Second Quarter                   13 %    1I%           .39                                  Second Quarter                          12%       10 %       .37 First Quarter                   12%     l l ','n      .39                                   First Quarter                          12        10%        .37 The Common Stock of the Company is listed on the New York, Midwest and Pacific Stock Exchanges.
The approximate nuraber of common shareholders on December 31,1982 was 95.000.
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Results of Operations and h,.nancial                                                              Kilowatt. hour sales decreased vi during 1982.
Cond,i tion                                                                                   after an increase or less than l'i during 1981 and 3'? during 1980. Decreases of 9'] and 21'J, Results of Operations                                                                         respectively, in sales to industrial and w holesale customers were primarily responsible for the 1982 Net income increased $15,04M,000, or 10'.i,                                               sales decrease; however, such decreases were otTset during 1982, as compared to 1981. lixcluding the                                              in part by increases of 5'? and 4'? in residential
)      non-recurring gain realized by Varibus Corporation                                            and commercial sales, respectively. The decline in (Varibus) on an exchange of lignite leases and the                                            industrial sales was a reflection of the economic recording of certain tax adjustments during 1981,                                             recession experienced throughout 1982, particularly net income increased by 27'J. Despite increases in in the housing and automobile industries. The both net income and income applicable to common                                               decline in sales to wholesale customers is the result stock, earnings per share of common stock                                                     of transferring a major RiiA cooperative load to decreased 13'J primarily as a result of the dilt.tive                                         another suppher in June,1981. During 1981, clfect of having 21'J additional average shares                                               increases in commercial and industrial sales of 5'1 outstanding.                                                                                  and I'J, respectively, were otTset by an Il'3 Operat.mg Reienue decrease in sales for resale. The increase in
}                                                                                                    kilowatt hour sales during 1980 was attributable to Operating revenue increased 7'J during 1982, as                                           a 10'i increase in sales to residential customers, compared to increases of 22'J and 16'J during                                                  partially otTset by a l'J decline in industrial sales.
1981 and 1980, respectively. The primary causes of                                           Operating thpenses and Tases these increases are detailed below:
The C,ompany's primary operating expenses are i                                                         1982          1981           1980           fuel for power generation and purchased power.
(In thousand4                         After increases of 23'? in 1981 and 7'i. during Rate inercases . $ 93,033 $120,036 5 61,771                                                     19S0, these two expense items decreased by less.
Changes in Fuel                                                                                than l'J durmg 1982. Substantially all char.ges in Cost Recovery                                 (19,41I) 77,519                57,536        fuel and purchased power costs are rellected in Fuel included                                                                                  customer bilhngs through the Company's fuel in liase Rates .                               13,59g          _              _            adjustment clauses and thus base no effect on net Sales Volume                                                                                   income. (See Note 12 to the Financial Statements and Other .                                     (I,675)       18,933         21,581        for information on changes to the Company's Texas Fuel Adjustment Clause). The decrease m,
                                                       $ 85,545 $216,4_S8 $140 888
_                         fuel expense during 1982 resulted from reduced generation requirements caused by lower sales lilectric rate increases granted during 1982, on                                           levels, otTset in part by higher unit fuel costs.
an annuali/cd basis, and their approximate effect                                              increases in fuel expense during the years 1981 on revenues for the year, are detailed below:                                                  and 1980, were primarily attributable to increases Anmunt of %Ionth Placed                                I trect on           n & unn p&e pM,h fud Anp wit lacrease                            in t trect   s w 2 Re.enues          in generation due to improved availabihh    ty of      inmases inn stimnsi                                          iin itinions,         Company-owned generating units.
Texas                   $57.5                           Oelober               $ 10.7              The increases in purchased power expense during Imuisiana .                     97.3                   September               26.2            198 2 and 1981, were caused primarily by increases i 1:RC                           32.6                  July                    15.8           in the unit price paid for energy purchased. The i                                                                                                   reduction in purchased power expense during 1980, 1        The Public Utility Commission of Texas                                                     resulted from the increased availability of both (PUCT) approved and the Company placed into                                                   lower cost natural gas and Company-owned effect a $63.7 milhon increase in retail rates in                                              generating facilities.
October, t oSi, and a $44 million increase in October,1980.                                                                                     .I.otal ther operating and maintenance expenses continued a trend of steads increases durmg the In November,1980, the Company placed m.to                                                  three-sear period from 1980 to 1982. Operating ell,ect $50.2 million of a $77.3 million rate increase                                        expenses have risen primarily because of increases ordered by the imuisiana Public Service                                                       experienced in the cost of gas purchased for resale, Commission (i.PSC). The additional $27.1 million                                               labor and material costs, and general had been placed into etreet in N1 arch,1980, as an                                            administrative costs resulting from intiationary mterim rate increase. The Company currently has                                                pressures and increased demand for energy a petition before the I.PSC requesting increases in                                            services. N1aintenance expenses increased during electric and gas retail rates of approximately $124                                             1980 and 1981, primarily due to the performance million and $2.4 milhon, respectively. An order of scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on f rom the I.PSC is expected during 1983.                                                       generating units while the decline during 1982, The Company is currently recognizing revenue                                               reflected the improved availability of generating from the 1982 FliRC rate increase on an                                                        units resulting from the Company's preventive annualized basis of $28.8 million which represents                                             maintenance program.
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_AgEM M m mWM V l MTV3XMWMW HUM WM                                                                                                                               -%w_4F A Depreciation expense has increased as a result of           subsequently refinanced using proceeds from increases in depreciable plant resulting primarily                issuances of long-term debt, equity, and other from placing Nelson Unit 6 into commercial securities.
operation.                                                              During 1982, the Company generated 26% of its The decrease in federal income taxes during                 construction expenditures (including AFUDC) 1981 was primarily the result of recording certain               from utility operations as compared to 31% during non-recurring adjustments for prior year taxes and                 1981, it is currently expected that internally other adjustments made in accordance with                         gen rated funds and AFUDC will provide an regulatory agency instructions.                                   average of approximately 42% of construction
                                                                      .                                                             expenditures (including AFUDC) during the "M'."8 U"'                                                  period from 1983 through 1985. Improved future Increases in allowance for funds used during                 internal cash generation will be directly related to construction ( AFUDC) are primarily due to the                     adequate and timely rate relief which recognizes increases in the rate used to compute AFIJ,DC,                    increases in the Company's cost of capital and its such increases in turn being due to contmumg                       cost of service, and allows the Company to earn a increases in the Company's cost of capital. These                 cash return on CWIP.
increases have been otTset in part by varying                                                                             <
The Company's ability to adequately fund its amounts of construction work m progress (CWIP)                                          ram is, and will contmue to be, mcluded in the rate base (thereby not qualifying for AFUDC), as allowed ,by the PUCT and the ,
construction pr7ent ubn its ability to obtain primarily depen funds through externa mancings, such ability, in LPSC, and by reductions m the amount of CWil                      turn, being de ndent upon electric rates sullicient resultmg from placmg Nelson Unit 6 int                            to maintain de t and preferred stock coverage commercial operation.                                              ratios, and common stock equity earnings which The increase in non-utility subsidiary operations             permit the issuance of additional securities at during 1981, resulted primarily from a gain                        reasonable rates. Long-term debt fmancings, sales        ,
realized by Varibus on an exchange of lignite                     of common and preference stock, and the sale and leases durmg September and a change by Varibus                    lease-back of nuclear fuel (see Note 5 to the in the , method used to account for its oil and gas               Financial Statements), provided 5649 million of          I operations.                                                       the Company's capital requirements during 1982.
Increases in interest charges on long-term debt              An aggregate of $200 million of debt was repaid are attributable to increased borrowings made in                  during 1982. Average daily short-term borrowings connection with the Company's construction                        were approximately 591 million during 1982, up program.                                                           12% from last year. (For information concerning funds available to the Company under a revolving g gRgg gPg g                                                     credit agreement, bank Imes of credit, and short-The Company's investment in utility and other                 term borrowings, see Notes 9 and 10 to the plant totaled $629 million during 1982, up 44%                    Financial Statements.)
over 1981, when funding by participants m jointly-                     During January,1982, the Company completed owned projects helped reduce the Company's                    . modification of the Trust Indenture under which its required cash outlay for construction. Construction               7%% Convertible Debentures due 1992 were expenditures are expected to total, approximately                 issued. The modification climinates the Indenture's
                                                                     $1.74 bilhon, mcludm.g $455 milhon of AFUDC,                      interest coverage convenant thereby increasing the      .
during the period from 1983 to 1985, with                         Company's financial flexibility.                        l expenditures (including AFUDC) of approximately
                                                                     $620 million in 1983,5600 million in 1984, and                        The Company's Mortgage Indenture places limitations on the amount of first mortgage bonds
                                                                     $523 million in 1985. The main focus of the Company's construction program continues to be                    which the Company is allowed to issue. The most the completion of River Bend Unit 1. During 1982,                  restrictive of these is, presently that based on the 53% of the Company's total construction                            ratio of pre-tax earmngs to interest on such bonds.
expenditures were related to construction of the                   Based on the results of operations at December 31, nuclear-fueled unit, Additionally, the Company                      19 md.82, hon the Company would be able to issue $373 must provide funding for its 42% share of Big                                                                            <
(assum,m additional first mortgage bondsing an interest rate o Cajun 2 Unit 3. In addition to funding the construction program, the Company is required to                       Limitations based on the ratio of after-tax periodically retire long-term debt and pay                         earnings to fixed charges and preferred dividends     t dividends to the holders of its preferred and                     are imposed by the Company's Restated Articles of preference stock. Long-term debt maturities are                    Incorporation upon the issuance of additional expected to approximate $10 million during the                     preferred stock. Based on the results of operations period from 1983 to 1985.                                          for the year ended December 31,1982,the The Company's construction program is funded                  Company would have been able to issue at year end by a combination of internally generated funds and                 $134 milh,on m additional preferred stock short and intermediate-term borrowings, which are                  (assuming a 14% dividend rate for such stock).
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Other - net .                                                                                       2,581                                   1,996             (3,621)
Income liefore Interest Charges .                                                       328,925                                              284,528             204,430 Interest Charges 1.ong-term debt                                                                   181,985                                               151,427              99,198 Other .                                                                                I4,398                                              17,698             20,954 Allowance for borrowed funds used during construction                              (33,437)                                             (35,528)            (32,911) 162,946                                               133,597              87,241 Net Income (Note 2)                                                                     165,979                                               150,931             117,189 Dividends on Preferred and Preference Stock                                               38,949                                                30,381             24,880 Income Applicable to Common Stock                                                  $ 127,030                                              $ 120,550           $ 92,309 Average Shares of Common Stock Outstanding .                                             65,056                                                53,851             44,987 Earnings Per Share of Common Stock (Note 2)
Hased on average shares outstanding                                                                   $1,95                                $2.24               $2.05
  ,                Assuming conversion of convertible debentures .                                                                            I.95              2.20               1.96 The accompanying notes are an integral part of the fmancial statements.
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Net income .                                                             $165,979 $150,931                               $117,189 Principal income items not requiring current funds l                   Depreciation and amortiration.                                         89,291                              78,194      73,422 Deferred income taxes - net                                            32,684                              (6,252)     16,000 investment tax credits - net .                                          14,020                             32,029      19,972         -
Equity component of allowance for funds used during construction.     (56,141)                        (40,741)       (40,590)
Non-utility subsidiary operations                                            206                     (1I,498)              1,398        3 l                        Total provided from operations .                                 246,039                      202,663           187,391          -
Dividends Preferred and preference dividends .                                  (38,949)                          (30,381)     (24,880)
Common dividends                                                     (101,223)                          (79,379)     (62,299)
Reinvested funds provided from operations .                      105,867                              92,903    100,212 Proiided From Financing Sales of securities Common stock .                                                        164,820                           132,762        71,422 Preferred stock subject to mandatory redemption .                         -                                 -         100,000 Preference stock .                                                    IIH),000                              -            -
First mortgage bonds (principal amount).                              167,000                             168,000     175,000 Guaranteed debentures - net .                                           36,000                             60,000        -
Pollution control bonds .                                               48,285                               -           -
Net change in short-term borrowings .                                        52,162                            (20,433)    (39,579)
Retirement of first mortgage bonds and convertible debentures .             (26,507)                           (41,970)    (17,133)
Equipment purchase obligations                                              (53,691)                           (16,181)          8,811 Nuclear fuel lease transaction                                             108,969                                -            -
Net change in revolving credit agreement                                  (120,000)                             30,000     160,000 Term loan agreement                                                          24,000                               -            -
Total provided from financing .                                       501,038                             312,178     458,521 Other Sources and Uses Investments in and advances to subsidiary companies                         (11,582)                             (1,123)          1,170 Retirement of Uranox Trust                                                  (27,216)                               -            -
Other - net (including changes in working capital)                               5,246                           (8,014)     43,655 Total other sources and uses                                      (33,552)                             (9,137)     44,825 Espenditures for Utility and Other Plant .                                      573,353                             395,944     603,558 d
Equity component of allowance for funds used during construction.             56,141                             40,741      40,590 imested in Utility and Other Plant                                             $629,494 $436,685 $644,148 The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Utility and Other Plant, at original cost 151 ant in service (Note 6)    ......
                                                                                                                                                                    $ 2,760,434           $2,140,180 1.ess: Accumulated provision for depreciation                                                                      811.853            ___743,730 1,948,581             1,396,450 Construction work in progress (Notes 6 and 11)                                                                   1,574,925             1.595,005 Nuclear fuel (Note 51                                                                                                --.
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                                                                                                                                                                                          -_3 059,71_4 Other Property and Investments Non-utility subsidiary companies                                                                                     43,850                     32,474 Other                                                                                                                     7,035                      1,960 50,885                     34,434 Current Assets Cash and temporary cash insestments .                                                                                     6,230                      4,50S Receivables Customers                                                                                                    102,188                      73,794 Notes                                                                                                                       30            13,333 Other ...          ..
I I,533                   14,967 Materials and supplies                                                                                                16,111                    17,545 l'uel stock .     ......
42,526                     39,127 Prepayments and other .                                                                                                    6,560                 11,425 185,178                    174,699 Deferred Charges Unamortized debt expense. .                                                                                            14.567                        6,716 Unamortifed project cancellation costs                                                                                 13,451                    17,307 Other                                                                                                                  18,524                   20,549 46,542                    44,572
                                                                                                                                                                    $3,806.111            $3,343,419 Capitaliiation and I.iabilities Capitalization (See Statement of Capitalization)
Common shareholders' equity                                                                                    $ 1,128,991            $ 933,383 Preference stock                                                                                                    100,000                     -
Preferred stock Not subject to mandatory redemption                                                                           136,444                    136,444 Subject to mandatory redemption.                                                                              175,553                    175,553 1.ong-term debt                                                                                                  1,595,525             1,467,341 3,136,513              2,712,721 Current Liabilities I.ong-term debt due within one Scar (Note 9)                                                                          10,000                    63,691 Notes payable (Note 10)
Banks       ...
69,000                    -
Commercial paper.                                                                                                 17,907                    34,745 Accounts payable Trade .                                                                                                          88,456                    65,384 Subsidiaries                                                                                                         2,350                             761 Taxes accrued . .                                                                                                       15,073                     16,770 Interest accrued.                                                                                                     55,221                     33,127 Other                                                                                                                 50.454                     57,134                '
308,461                    271,612 Deferred Credits investment tax credits                                                                                             151,696                     145,389 Accumulated deferred income taxes.                                                                                  199,842                   175,444 Other                                                                                                                      9,599                   11,037 361,137                    331,870 Proceeds from Sale of Nuclear Fuel (Note 5)                                                                                                              -                         2',216 Commitments and Contingencies (Notes 6 and 11) .                                                                                                        -                          -
                                                                                                                                                                     $_3,806,I l_1         $3,343,419 The accompanying notes are an integral part of the fmancial statements.
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Common stock Authoriicd 100,000,000 shares without par value Outstanding 74,049,921 and 60,574,877 shares, respectively                                  $ 767,125 $ 602,305 Premium and expense on capital stock                                                                                    4,501                 (2,088)
Other paid.in capital                                                                                                  25,876                25,876 Retained earnings .                                                                                                   331.489              307,290 1,128,99!              933,383 Preference Stock (Note 7)
Authorized 20,000,000 shares without par value, cumulative Outstanding 4,000,000 shares.
Current Ibidend                                          Shares          Redemption Series                                        Outstanding           Price
                                            $ 4.40                                           2,000,000         $ 31.90                      50,000                -
3.85                                         2,000,000             31.35                    50,000                -
100,000                -
Preferred Stock (Notes 7 and 8)
Authoriicd 6,000,000 shares, $100 par value, cumulative Outstanding 3,119,970 shares.
Current Ibidend                                          Shares          Redemption Series                                        Outstanding           Price l                                            Not subject to mandatory redemption I
                                            $ 4.40                                               51,173         $ 108.00                      5,117                   5,117 4.50 ....                                         5,830           105.00                        583                     583 4.40-1949                                          1,655          103.00                        166                     166 4.20                                              9.745           102.818                       975                     975 4.44                                             14,804           103.75                      1,480                   1,480 5.00                                             10,993           104.25                      1,099                   1,099 5.08                                             26,845           104.63                      2,685                   2,685 4.52                                             10,564           103.57                      1,056                   1,056 6.08                                             32,829           103.34                      3,283                   3,283 7.56                                           350,000            103.80                     35,000                 35,000 8.52                                           500,000            106.43                     50,000                 50,000 9.96                                           350,000            111.60                     35,000                 35,000
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136,444               136,444 Subject to mandatory redemption 8.80                                           371,835            107.00                     37,183                 37,183 9.75                                             33,697           107.00                      3,370                   3,370 8.64                                            350,000           108 64                     35,000                 35,000          g 11.48                                            500,000           111.48                     50,000                 50,000
                                               ) ' 64                                           500,000           113.64                     50,000                 50,000 176,553               175,553
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First mortgage bonds                                                                                                                     l Maturing 1983 through 1987 -                                                                                                       l 3%% due December 1,1983.                                                                                     -         10,000 4%% due September I,1986                                                                                    15,000      15,000 14%% due March I,1987                                                                                   100,000      100,000 4%% due October 1,1987 .......                                                                              17,000      17,000 r                  Maturing 1988 through 1992 - 4% through 17%%.........                                                        255,000      215,000 Maturing 1993 through 1997 - 5% through 16.8% .                                                              115,000        88,000 Maturing 1998 through 2002 - 6%% through 8%% . . .                                                           210,000      210,000 Maturing 2003 through 2007 - 8%% through 10.15% .                                                            270,000      270,000 Maturing 2008 through 2012 - 10% % through 15%                                                               325,000      225,000 1,307,000    1,150,000 Pollution control and industrial development bonds 7% due 2006.                                                                                                    25,000      25,000 5.9% due 2007 .                                                                                                 23,000      23,000 10 %% d u e 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
48,285         -
Guaranteed debentures 17%% and 16% due 1988 and 1990 - net .                                                         96,000       60,000 Convertible debentures 7%% due 1992.                                                                                   3,976      20,483 Term-loan agreement Variable rates (14%% at December 31,1982) due 1987                                                              24,000        -
Revolving credit agreement                                                                                            70,000    190,000 1,597,261    1,468,483 Unamortized premium and discount on debt - net .                                                                      (1,736)     (1,142) 1,595,525    1,467,341 53,136,513 52,712,721 First mortgage bond sinking fund requirements and long-term debt maturities for each of the next five years are as follows:
long-Term Sinking Fund               Debt Requirements             Maturities (In thousands) 1983                                                                         511,784               5 10,000 1984                                                                          11,664                    -
1985         .                                                                I1,664                    -
1986                                                                          11,484                  15,000 1987                                                                          19,850                 141,000 The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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Preferred Stock Subject to                                           Other Mandatory  Preference    Comemn         Premium     Paid-in  Retained Redemption   Stock          Stock    (Im Espensej   Capital  f arnings l
Balance: January 1,1980                                 $ 75,553   5 -          5398,121        5(1,094)   525,847 5240,751 Net income - 1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..                                                                     I17,189 Preferred stock sold (1,000,000 shares) .              100,000                                 (1,045)
Common stock sold:
Public olTerings (5,000,000 siares)                                           57,400 Conversion of deben:ures                                                                                                   <
(253,054 shares)        ...                                                 3,701 Dividend reinvestment and stock...
purchase plan (522,440 shares).                                             5,761 timployee benefit plans (410,456 shares)                                                            4,560 Dividends declared:
Preferred stock                                                                                                 (24,880)
Common stock.                                                                                                   (62,299)
Capital stock expense .                                                                            (30)                (786)
Balance: December 31,1980                               _175,553       -           469,543        (2,169)    25,847   269,975 Net income - 1981                                                                                                   150,931 Common stock sold:
Public otTerings (8.000,000 shares)                                           92.375 Conversion of debentures (1,625.572 shares)       ...                                               23,791 Dividend reinvestment and stock...
purchase plan (570,428 shares) .                                            6,648 limployee benefit plans (883,053 shares)..                                                          9,936 Acquisition of subsidiary (588,000 shares)                                                                12                      29
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Preferred stock                                                                                                 (30,381)
Common stock.                                                                                                    (79,379)
Capital stock expense .                                                                            81               (3,856)
Balance: December 31,1981                                175,553       -          602,305         (2,088)   25,876    307,290 Net income - 1982. . .                ...                                                                          165,979 Preference stock sold (4,000,000 shares) .                       100,000                        5,840                          ,
Common stock sold:                                                                                                           Y 121,250 Public ofTerings (10,000,000 shares)
Conversion of debentures (1,245,746 shares)       ...                                              16,291 Dividend reinvestment and stock...
purchase plan (1,636,481 shares)                                          20,056 Ilmployee benefit plans (592,817 shares)                                                            7,223 Dividends declared:
Preferred and preference stock                                                                                  (38,949)
Common stock.                                                                                                 (101,223)
Capital stock expense .                                                      _
749                (1,608)
Balance: December 31,1982                               5175,553 5100,000 $767,125              5 4,501    525,876 5331,489 The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.
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: 1. Suninsary of Significant Accounting                   December 31; 1930-8.0% from January I j               Policies                                           through December 31.
1           System ofifccounts. The accounting records of             Revenue. Fuel and Purchased Power. The the Company are maintained in accordance with             Ccmpany records revenue as billed to its customers the Uniform System of Accounts as prescribed by             n a cycle bill ng basis. Revenue is not recorded 2
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission f r energy dehvered and unbilled at the end of esch fiscal period. Rate schedules of the Company I        (FERC) and adopted by the Louisiana Public pr vide for adjustments to substantially all rates i       Service Commission (LPSC) and the Public Utilit>,
                    .                                              for mcreases or decreases m the costs of fuel for l
Com m.issmn of Texas (PUCT).                              generation, purchased power, and gas distributed.
,           Utility Plant and Depreciation. Utility and            Fuel and purchased power costs in excess of those other plant is stated at original cost when first          included in base rates are deferred (or accrued) dedicated to public service and the amounts shown          until such costs are billed (or credited) to do not represent reproduction costs or current             customers.
values. Costs of repairs and minor replacements              Inventories. The Company's fuel inventories are charged to expense as incurred. The original           are comprised of fuel oil, valued at average cost, i      cost of depreciable utility plant retired and cost of     and coal, valued at last in, first-out (LIFO) cost.
i      removal,less salvage, are charged to accumulated           Materials and supplies inventories are valued at provision for depreciation. The provision for             average cost.
i depreciation is computed using the straight-line              Income Taxes. The Company and its
;       method at rates which will amortire the                   subsidiaries file a consolidated federal income tax unrecovered cost of depreciable plant over the             return. Income taxes are allocated to the individual estimated remaining service life,                         companies based on their respective taxable income
 !          Composite depreciation rates were as                  or I ss nd investment tax credits.
follows:                                                      The Company follows a policy of comprehensive 1982      1981    19an          interperiod income tax allocation where such Electric .            3.66 % 3.70% 3.72%               treatment is permitted for ratemaking purposes by Steam .                2,44      2.80     2.77          regulatory bodies. Deferred income taxes result Gas . . . .            3,51      3.50     3.57          from timing ditTerences in the recognition of Total Company .        3.63      3.68     3.69          revenue and expenses for tax and accounting purposes. These deferred income taxes are charged
 ,         illtowancefor Funds Used During Construction           or credited to income and recorded in accumulated t
and Capitalization ofInterest. Allowance for              deferred income taxes.
1       funds used during construction ( AFUDC) is a                  investment tax credits have been deferred and
;       utility accounting practice calculated under              are being amorti7ed ratably over the useful lives of guidelines prescribed by the FERC and capitalized         the related property. The Company claims the
;       as part of the cost of utility plant representmg the      additional 1%% investment tax credit, as permitted cost of servicing the capital invested in construction     by the Internal Revenue Code, as a result of the I       work in progress. Such AFUDC has been                     provisions of the Employee Stock Ownership Plan.
segregated into two component parts - borrowed                 Non-Utility Subsidiarr Companiel The and equity funds. That portion allocated t                 Company has made inve'stments in and advances to
,      borrowed funds is reflected as an adjustment to            non-utility subsidiary companies and accounts for l      interest charges. Interest incurred by certain trusts      its investments on the equity basis. The Company's
!      (see Notes 5 and 9) is included in interest expense        wholly-owned subsidiary, Prudential Drilling
;      in the statement of income and a corresponding             Company, is engaged primarily in the exploration l
amount is included as part of the borrowed funds           for and development of oil and gas properties. The l      component of AFUDC. Both the equity and the                Company's other wholly-owned subsidiary, Varibus borrowed portions of AFUDC are non-cash items              Corpcration (Varibus), operates pipelines and holds which have the clTect of increasing the Company's          lignite reserves.
reported net income by their full amounts.                     Retirement Plan. EITective January 1,1983, llowever, when the related utility plant is placed in      the Company's pension plan, which covers all service, a return on and recovery of these costs is        employees meeting certain age and service l     permitted in det,trn ;aing the rates charged for           requirements, was changed from a contributory to
;      utility service. The Company computed AFUDC at             a non-contributory plan. The Company's policy is the following rates compounded semiannually                to fund accrued pension cost annually. Past and (net): 1932-9.5% from January I through                    prior service costs are being funded and amortized September 30 and 10.25% from October I through             by the Company over a thirty-year period.
December 31; 1981 - 8.5 % from January 1                       Earnings Per Sirare. Earnings per share are through March 31 and 9.0% from April I through             based on the weighted average number of common 33

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( i$          (ih            'kN           l number of common shares outstanding plus the                                           tases .                    5 55.547      5 34.085       5 50.621 shares which would have been issued if the                                     nrective rederal income outstanding convertible debentures had been                                     tas rate                                25.17          18 4           30 7; converted on the date of original issue, after giving                              The components of rederal income tases are as followv elTect to the climination of related interest expense,                                                              1982           198           19xo amortization of bond discount, and expense of issue                                                                          ilnthouundu (net of related income taxes). The number of                                  charged to operating shares for the latter computation was                                          ''P,*",',*'c  ,
                                                                                                        ,t rederat  income                                                   i approximately 65,356,000, 55,231,000 and                                            tases .                       s 7,3 i 7 s 3,779            s 5.820          j 47,992,000, for the years 1982,1981, and 1980,                                    Deferred rederal income                                                      i tases - net:
respectively'                                                                                                       21,468           9,255 Tas depreciation                                             14370
: 2.          Change in Accounting for Fuel                                           Carita'a'd construction costs             2,751        (4.392)         5,337 in June,1981, at the urging and authorization of                               Amortiica nuclear the I.PSC, the Company changed its method of                                           ""',','""''"''I".
c                            g i,3 93       gi,339;        43,394, accounting for fuel and purchased power costs in                                     ruel and pur6 sed Louisiana. The change, etTective January 1,1981,                                       power costs deferred
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results in the Company deferring or accruing on its                                  d''i , knses books any under or over recovered fuel and                                             aererred for tax purchased power costs in excess of those included                                    y ''                             [3]          (2.30g)              33 m base rates until such costs are reflected in                 ,                         Total deferred billings to customers pursuant to its Louisiana fuel                                       rederal income adjustment clause. The cumulative effect of the                                            taies - net              31.510          (5.621)       18.oxo change on years prior to 1981 is immaterial and                                      investment tas crc lits
                                                                                                     - net                         14.020        32.029         19.972 included in income for 1981. The elTect of the change for the year 1981 was to decrease net                                  To re                      ie '
c   ,gejeral,          ,ns income by $4.8 million (5.09 per share). The pro                                expenses        ..
52.x47        32,i x7        43.x72 forma effects of the change in accounting for fuel                            Charged to other income in 1980, assuming the new method was applied
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* d retroactively to that Scar, would have been to                                          To'n Ye tins             5 55.547      5 34.ox5       5 50.621 decrease net mcome by $3.6 million (5.08 per share).                                                                           The Company was able to reduce its inccme tax
: 3.         Federal Incoine Taxes                                              liabi;ity for the years 1982,1981, and 1980, by utilizing investment tax credits. At December 31, The provisions for federal income taxes were less                         1982, the Company had ace.imulated than the amounts computed by applying the                                     carryforwards of investment tax credit of statutory federal income tax rate to net income                               $g9,'510,000. These carrsforwards expire through before federal income taxes. The reasons for these                            1997, and will be used to reduce income taxes in dilTerences are as follows:                                                   future years. The investment tax credit utilization limit has increased progressively, from a maximum                             W 1982           1981       1989        of 70% of the income tax hability (before tin thou ando                application of the investment tax credit) in 1980,                              1
                     '                                                                        to 80% in 1981, and 90''c' in 1982.                                            i nc mNase                          5221.526 51 x 5.016       5167.x10 i ederal income tases at
                                                                   $ M5,lo7
: 4.       Retirement Plan statutory tax rate (461)           $101,902                  $ 77.193 Reductions in rederal                                                             The total costs of the Company's contributory
                  ' " ' " ' ' ' "d ' '" 8                                                     pension plan for the years ended December 31.
r I:sclusions from taxable                                                   1982,1981, and 1980, wcre $3,698,000, income of Al UDc               (40.875)       (32.053)   (26,704)      $6,696,000, and $5,393,000, respectively. Of such P              '
amounts, $2,472,000, 54,245,000, and $3,506,000,
                    "'"$urh t             'c's', but expensed for tax                                                       respectively, were charged to income with the pur es          .                (7.189)        (3.034)    ( 3.9x 5)   balance of such costs for each period charged to depreciation                                                           construction and other accounts.
ditTerences                       6.825          6.380       6.555 Adjustment for prior                                                         The valuation date of the latest pension years taxes and other                                                  information is January 1 of the subsequent years reFulatory adjustments          (1,172)      (13.159)     (2.251) 1.quity in earnings or for each plan year ended December 31. The                            ,
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Actuarial present value of                                                                                      .
accumulated plan benefits:                                                In connection with the aforementioned vested                               5 44,tx9       5 4 t.742       transaction, the Company repurchased and Nonsested .                          -2.912               2.573     subsequently sold to the Lessor, all of the uranium Preseni value or accumutaica plan                                        oxide held by the Uranox Capital Trust. Interest beneritt                                5 47. tot 5 44.315 charges on the trust were approximately Net awets available for benefits .        5 t>9.730
                                                                                     $1,345,000, $2,823,000, and $5,994,000 for the
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Assumed rate of return in determinin actuarial present                                              In accordance with the ratemaking treatment values of p an benefits .                         un             97 afforded its leases by regulatory agencies, the Company does not capitalire those leases which
: 5. Leases                                                            mect the criteria for capital leases under the i             The Company has existing agreements for the                          guidelines of Statement of Financial Accounting leasing of certain vehicles, coal rail cars and other                     Standards (SFAS) No.13. Ilowever, had such l        equipment, and buildings. Lease rental payments                           leases been accounted for as capital leases, the were $12,799,000, $6,830,000 and $6,628,000                               balance sheet would have included leased assets i          during 1982,1981, and 1980, respectively. Of such                        and related liabilities of approximately $154.9 l          amounts, $10,395,000, $5,679,000, and $5,315,000,                         million at December 31,1982, and $37.2 million at December 31,1981.
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respectively, were charged to income, with the remainder charged to construction and other accounts.                                                                 6. Jointly-Owned Facilities Future minimum lease payments under non-                                  The Company owns a 70% undivided interest in canceliable capital and operating leases (excluding                      the 540 N1W Roy S. Nelson Unit 6 coal-fired those payments to be due under the nuclear fuel                          generating unit which was placed in-service Niay lease as discussed below) for each of the next five                       31,1982. The participants, Sam Rayburn years and in the aggregate at December 31,1982,                           N1unicipal Power Agency and Sam Rayburn G&T are estimated to be (in thousands):                                      (SRG&T), have funded their proportionate 1983'                   $ 16,035                                     wnership shares of 20% and 107c, respectively.
15,830                               The Company's share of utility plant in-service for 1984.                                                             this unit at December 31,1982, is $404,244,000, 1985.                        15,728 with $7,684,000 of associated accumulated 1986.                         12,984                               depreciation. The Company's share of operations 1987.                         12,984                               and maintenance expense related to Nelson Unit 6 Remaining years _215,105                                           is included in operating expenses for 1982.
                                          $288,666                                      The Company has agreements with the y                                                                                   participants in Nelson Unit 6 to purchase all or a
,             During August,1982, the Company entered into                          portion of their share of the unit's capacity for a nuclear fuel financing agreement with a non.                            periods ranging from seven to fourteen years.
affiliated third party fuel corporation (the                              During 1982, the Company purchased 100% of "I.essor"). Under the terms of the agreement, the                         such capacity from both participants. The fixed Lessor will prcAide financing for up to $300 million                      costs applicable to the buy-backs of power are of nuclear fuel which will eventually be leased-back                      based on gross plant investment and other factors l
i         to the Company for use at River Bend Unit I, a                            which are not currently determinable for years 940 N1W nuclear-fueled generating unit. The                               subsequent to 1982. The variable costs associated I.cssor will purchase nuclear fuel from the                               with such buy-backs are composed of fuel costs Company or its vendors and will make all                                  and operations and maintenance expenses. For payments necessary for further processing of the                          1982, the fixed costs applicable to the buy-backs fuel Once River Bend Unit I is placed into                                were $22,302,000, while fuel costs and operations commercial operation, the Company will make                               and maintenance expenses were $10,532,000 and quarterly payments to the Lessor for the cost                             $2,284,000, respectively.
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                                                                     , disidends on common stock are contained in the N heduled ( om-     Share of   Company's Restated Articles of Incorporation, as in-sersk e pan,  t spenditure' amended, and indentures. The most restrictise Generating Neation         Date    share at 12DliM2         i                 ds                             TmNmm dated as of September 1,1977. liased on such liig Cajun 2 l! nit 3                1983     42';          ,9 hmitations, the retained earm,ngs avadable for (Coal                   540 MW)
Riser llend Unit i                  1985     70     1,227,844   Pa) ment of dividends as of December 31,1982 and
( N uclea r               940 MW)                                1981, amounted to approximately $234 million and
                                                                       $212 million, respectively (see Note M for
             'lhe Company is currently funding its share of            restrictions on the payment of disidends on the costs of Ilig Cajun 2 Unit 3. Cajun lilectric                common stock under the sinking fund provisions Power Cooperatise (CliPCO) is the project                       for preferred stock).
manager and will operate this unit. The Compans               ~
At December 31,1982, the C,ompany had expects to utili/c all of the energy generated b> its     '
rescrsed 3,168,799 shares of common stock to be share of the capacity at the time this unit is piaced issued in connection with its employee benefit plans in-sers ice' and Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Riser llend Unit I is jointly owned by the               Plan.
Company GO'? ) and Cl!PCO (30'? ). The                              I)uring 1982, the Company iwued 4,000,000 Company is actmg as project manager for                         shares of preference stock. Pasment of disidends      ~
construction and operation of such unit liased                  on preference stock is subordinate to payment of upon the latest projections of the total cost of                disidends on preferred stock and preferred stock Riser llend Unit I, Cl PCO's share will exceed its             sinking fund obligations, but has priorits to l      existing loan guarantee, and it will need additional             payment of disidends on common stock.'There are loan guarantees from the Rural !!!ectrification                 no limitations en the issuance of preference stock.
Administration (Ri!A) or other funds to fulhll its                 At December 31,1952, the (,ompany had obhpation. 'I he Company has been advised that authorized 10,000,000 shares of pref erred stock Cl!PCO ha tiled an application for an additional without par salue (nom iwued). The Company's loan guarantee; howeser, there can bc no assurance tad Aru,&s of inmporanon, as ann nded that the Rii A will grant such loan guarantee. If places limitations on the issuance of additional additional loan guarantees are not granted, preferred stock. l'or information with respect to the
( lil CO s share of construction expenditures, above amount of preferred stock currenth issuable current loan guarantees, estimated at                          subject to this limitation, see " Management's approximately $62 million and $112 million f.or                I)iscussion and Anahsis of Results of Operations 1983 and 1984, respectisely, would hase to be and l'inancial Condition.
borne by the Company. Under existing agreements, SRG&T had proposed to become owner of 7'; of                      At the Company's option, all or part of its Riser llend linit 1. Iloweser, SRG&T has                      preferred and preference stock may be redeemed at informed the Company that the RiiA has rejected               stated prices. Certain issues are subject to SRG ATs application for a loan guarantee for                  restrictions w hich prohibit redemption for a period           ,
such unit. Unicss and until other arranecments                of time directly or indirectly out of the proceeds of acceptable to the RiiA are made, the Company                  or in anticipation of borrowings or issuance of will continue to bear SRG&Ts proposed share of                additional preferred stock hasing a lower interest expendituret                                                  cost or dividend rate.
The Compans has agreements with Cl!PCO and               8.      Preferred Stock Subject to Mandatery SRG&T whereby, after River llend Unit I goes                          Redemption into commercial operation, the Company will                       The 58.80 and 59.75 Disidend Preferred Stock initially be obligated to purchase 100'3 of the              are entitled to mandatory sinking funds sutiicient participants' share of the unit's capacity.                   to retire 3'i of the shares of each series beginning
           ~1 hereafter, the Company is obligated to purchase            in 19x4. The SS.64, 511.48. and 513.64 Dividend declining amounts for periods ranging from two to             Preferred Stock are entitled to mandatory sinking nine years. 'I he fixed costs applicable to the buy-          funds sutlicient to retire 4'; of the shares of each backs of power are based in part on final unit costs          series beginning in the sixth year after the date of and other factors and are not deternunable at this            issuance. The aggregate sinking fund requirements, time. ~l he variable costs associated with such buy-          which begin in 1984, are approximately $1,217,000 backs will be composed of fuel costs and operations           in 1984, 52,617.000 in 19S5, and 56,617,000 in and maintenance expenses.                                      1986 and 19x7. Preferred stock sinking fund m

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prm nions restrict the payment of disidends on                                                                    At I)ecember 31,1982, the ,unount outstanding common and preference stock and the purchases of                                                             under the resohing credit agreement consis:cd of such stock by the Company unlev. the sinking fund                                                            $50 million bearing an mterest rate of 10'J, and reyturements are met                                                                                         520 mdlion bearing an interest rate of II:                       '
9       lamg-Term Debt                                                                                            1)uring .luly,19s2, the Company and Gulf
                                 .                                                                      .           States Os erseas I inance, N X (1 inance), a w holly
          .I he (.ompany s Mortgage contains s.oking f und owned subsidiary of the (.ompany, entered into an prosisions w hich require, generall), that the escrow agreement, renewable annually, with
(,ompans make annual cash deposits equal to I._,,<
certain financial institutiont L:nder the terms ut of. the greatest aggreyale principal amount of first
                                                    .          .                                                    the agreement,1inance depmited with an escrow mortgage bonds outstanding or, in lieu thereof, to agent 524 million in certificates of.dermit which apph property additions or reacqmred h.rst were presieush purchased with the equits mortgage bonds f.or that purpose. T he C.ompans                                                                                       -                                     -
contribution made to Iinance bs the (.om pa n s .
has satished the mortgage requirements in past-                                                                                                         . -
Since the use of the deposit is restricted to -
years and plans to meet current and future pay ment to the trustee f.or both series of requirements bs certifying ,'asailable net additions,, to the trustee. Ihose series of the
                                                       .                                                            guaranteed debentures in the esent of default, the
                         ,                                                                                          depmit has been treated as an oth.et to such C.ompans s brst mortgage bonds which were                                                                                          .
debentures in the financial statements presented privatels pliced require cash sinking funds. .
herein. Related interest income of 5 2,5 52,000, f. rom beginning in 1987. Accordingly, the 1987 sinking the 524 million insestment has been othet against fund requirements shown on the Statement of Capitalization include 58,570,000 of cash .. inking                                                              "E * *I" " * "*
fund requirements related to such bonds.                                                                          I)uring March,1981, and January,1982, the Compans liquidated the Tur-Gen and Gideon
          .t he t,empans,s Mortgage Indenture contains an                                                                              -
                                                                                                                    .I. rust obligations by payment of $27,583,000 and interest emerage emenant which firaits the amount                                                                                          -
553,760,000, rcspectisch. Interest on the trusts of first mortgage bonds which the (.ompans ma)                                                                                                   - .
totaled approximately 510,212,000 and 58,013,000 issue. I.or information with repect to the additional during 1981 and 1980, respectisch.
amount of first mortgage bonds which the                                                                                                                       -
Company is currently able to issue under this limitation, see ,, Management,s I)iscussion and                                                               10. Notes Payable Analysis of Results of Operations and l'inancial                                                                 As of I)ecember 31,1982, the Company had Condition?                                                                                                   agreements with banks and banking institutions On March 12,1982, the Compans entered into                                                                which prmided for short-term lines of credit an agreement for an 5800 million relohing credit                                                             totaling approximately 5205 million. Interest rates agreement prosiding for intermediate-term loans in                                                           auociated with these lines range from the I.lllOR
                                                                                                                     +             to the prime rate or a nmtually agreeable principal amounts of at least $10 million to be made available until September 12,19x6, with the                                                             rate to be determined at the time of borrowing.
balance then outstanding being repayable mer a                                                               Conimitment fees range from % of I'< to ' of I';
                                                                                                                    "f;unount of asailable credit. In lieu of three-year period beginmng in 1987. On March 17 19x2, the Company retired the balance outstanding                                                           commitment fees, certain banks require a cash (5190 million) under the $200 mdlion resohing                                                                balance be maintained equal to 5'? to 10'; of the credit agreement with an equal amount from the                                                               conunit ment .
[     Sh00 million resoking credit agreement. 'T he new                                                                  Information regardmg short term debt agreement requires certain lees and bears interest                                                            outstanding is detailed below:
at the following rates:                                                                                                                           39x           inxi              i9xn Lurodollar Loarn                           Y; + the 1 ondon                                                                                         lla 'h"u'andu Interbank Otfering Rate (1.lHOR) during the                                                           U",[i"""(,['"'a 'm Resohing Credit 'lerm and Y, & l.lHOR                                                                     -ctme                         slC e         si'9.o u si<m::s durmg the term loan period                                                                             ' ' " r e d " b """' "'
out st a mim p                    91 #f.         s t .712       l i t .9s4 Domestic thed Rate Loarn                                .;+
                                                                                                                     " cwb'ed a' crave Certificates of I)epmit Rate during the                                                                   '"'$''i [jij",M, ,o
                                                                                                                         ,y Resohing Credit Term and '4'; + Certificates                                                              geend                               9 w;           13 :c            H.7v; of I)cposit Rate during the term loan perimi.                                                         "(("y%g                                ,,              ,7 m             ,,
Domestic Hase Rate Loarn                              Prime Rate as determined by Irsing Trust Compans during                      ~
W Cablated b dmdmp the sum of the cdedne interest the Resohinb* Credit Term and '.4'7 + Yrime
                                                                                                                               '"''h'       " h * '" ' W" #" b ou t st a nd"ing
                                                                                                                                                                    'h"" *"" d' b' Rate as determined by Irsing Trust Company during the term loan period.
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: 11. Commitments and Contingencies                                                                              Administration branch of the Department of Energy (DOE). The Order alleges that Varibus Construction. The 1983 construction program                                                               was subject to Mandatory Petroleum Price is currently estimated to be $620 million, mcluding                                                             Regulations and, therefore, overcharged the approximately $122 milh,on of AFUDC. In                                                                         Company by approximately $7.5 million on fuel oil connection with the construction program, the                                                                   sales made during the period from October,1973 Company has incurred substantial commitments,                                                                   through January,1974, and seeks to have Varibus some prior to receipt of required governmental                                                                  refund those charges. The Order also seeks'               {
permits, which are related to 1984 and subsequent                                                              payment of interest on the alleged overcharges at years. No prov,ision is made m, the financial                                                               . varying rates from the time of the sale unta statements for possible losses which could occur if                                                            eventual settlement. The Company has estimated such permits should not be obtamed.                                                                            that the interest on the alleged overcharges could I
Construction of River Bend Unit 2, a 940 MW                                                               amount to approximately $11.4 million through             #
nuclear-fueled generating unit, has been deferred                                                              December 31,1982. Varibus' prior correspondence at ! cast until the completion of River Bend Unit 1.                                                           from the DOE concerning the fuel oil sales was in Total Company expenditures on this unit through                                                                February of 1981, when a Notice of Probable December 31,1982, were $94.5 million, including                                                                Violation was issued which alleged overcharges of
         $28.4 million of AFUDC.                                                                                        approximately $1.1 million. No reason has been Purchase Power Agreement. In February,                                                                     ofTered by the DOE as to why the alleged overcharges have been increased so substantially, 1982, the Company entered into an interchange Outside legal counsel has advised and management contract with the Southern Companics to purchase, believes that on the basis of applicable legislative, subject to approval by the FERC, at least 500 MW of electricity in 1984 and 1000 MW from                                                                 regulatory, and judicial authorities, Varibus and the Company have meritorious defenses against 1985 through 1992. The contract requires the Company to build a 500 kilovolt line scheduled for                                                              issuance of a Final Remedial Order and that completion in 1984, that will tie the Company's                                                                 precedents exist which support exemptbn from the Mandatory Petroleum Price Regulations of system with that of the Southern Companies.                                                                     Varibus' fuel oil sales to the Company. The The fixed costs applicable to the purchases of                                                              Company and Varibus plan to contest the Order; power are based in part on existing unit costs and                                                              however, no assurances can be given at this time as future unit costs of generating units and other                                                                to the outcome of these proceedings.
factors and are not determmable at this time. The variable costs associated with such purchases will                                                              12. Subsequent Esents be composed of fuel costs and operations and maintenance expenses.                                                                                              During February,1983, the PUCT adopted a new rule which changes purchased power and fuel Nuclear Fuel. In 1980, the Company sold a                                                                   e st recovery procedures for electric companies portion of the uranium oxide imentory held by the                                                                 peratinF n i Texas. Under the new procedures, Uranox Trust to SRGiT. In March,1982, the                                                                       I ng r nge c st estimates will be reviewed by the Company and SRG&T signed an agreement,                                                                          PUCT, and the fuel and purchased power cost which replaced an earlier agreement and called for                                                              factors will be fixed for a period not to exceed one the Company to purchase the uranium oxide                                                                      ye r. Additionally, the new procedures provide for presently owned by SRG&T not earlier than May                                                                  adjustments for over or undercollections and for       <
28,1983 (at a price expected to approximate $12                                                                emergency requests for changes m the factor m the million at that time).                                                                                         event of unforeseen circumstances. These new For additional information regarding the                                                                     procedures may impact cost recoveries during the retirement of the Uranox Trust and the Company's                                                                thiid and fourth quarter of 1983; however, the        '
nuclear fuel lease, see Note 5.                                                                                Company believes that these procedures will not Proposed Remedial Order. During October,                                                                     have a significant elTect upon its ability to recover 1982, Varibus received a Proposed Remedial Order                                                               such costs in a timely fashion.
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: 13. Quarterly Financial Information (Unaudited)
(In thousands escept per share amount 4 l'.arnings Per Share of Common Stock
* Hased On          Anuming Aterage          Connersion Operating    Operating      Net        Shares        of Con,ertible 19M2                                               Reienue      Income      income     Outstanding      Debentures First Quarter                                           $285,737 $51,728 $26,242                 5.31             5.30 Second Quarter                                           309,758       61,939       34,464         .40             .40 Third Quarter.                                            375,816       85,277      56,885          .69             .69 Fourth Quarter.                                          335,948       71,465      48,388           .53            .53 19MI First Quarter                                            266,123       47,986       27,333          .40             .39 Second Quarter                                            320,607       53,023       32,994          .50             .49 Third Quarter                                             373,116       74,724      61,415          .97             .95 Fourth Quarter                                           261,868       54,560       29,189         .37             .37
* The individual quarters may not add to the yearly totals since the per share an.ounts are based upon the average number of shares outstanding during each quarter.
See " Management's I iscussion and Analysis of              for depreciation on the constant dollar and current Results of Operations and Financial Condition" for             cost amounts of utility and other plant was discussion concerning a non-recurring gain in the              determined by applying the Company's third quarter of 1981, by a subsidiary as a result of          depreciation rates to the indexed plant amounts.
an exchange of lignite leases. See Note 2 for                     Fuel inventories, the cost of fuel used in information concerning a change during 1981 in                 generation, and gas purchased for resale have not the method of accounting for fuel costs.                       been restated from their historical cost in nominal d 11 rs. Regulation limits the recovery of fuel and
: 14. Su lemental Information                                   purchased costs through the operation of on hanging Prices (Unaudited)                          adjustment clauses or adjustments in basic rate The following supplemen:ary information is                  schedules to actua' costs. For this reason fuel supplied in accordance with the requirements of                inventories are etrectively monetary assets.
the SFAS No. 33 for the purpose of providing.                     As prescribed in SFAS No. 33, income taxes certam mformation about the elTects of chenging were n t adj.usted.
prices. It should be viewed as an estimate of the approximate effect of inflation, rather than as a                 Other facters atrectmg the Statement of Income precise measure.                                               Adjusted for Changing Prices are as follows:
SFAS No. 33 attempts to measure the effects of                  1. Increase in the current cost of net utility inflation in two ways:                                                 plant as a result of specific price changes experienced:
: 1. Constant dollar amounts represent historical I               costs stated in terms of dollars of equal                       The increase in the current cost amount of net utility plant is shown before and after 2               purchasing power, as measured by the Consumers Price Index for all Urban                             climin ting the efTects of general inflation Consumers.                                                      as measured by the CPI-U.
: 2. Current cost amounts reflect the changes in              2. Reduction to net recoverable cost:
specific prices of plant from the date the                       Under the rate-making prescribed by the plant was acquired to the present, and ditTer                   regulatory commissions to which the l                                                                               Company is subject, only the historical from constant dollar amwnts to the extent that specific prices have increased more or                     cost of plant is recoverable in revenue as 1:ss rapidly than prices in general.                            depreciation. Therefore, the excess of the The current cost of utility and other plant, which                    c st of plant, is not presently recoverable includes land, land rights, plant held for future use,                   in rates as depreciation, and is reflected as and construction work in progress, represents the                        a reduction to net recoverable cost. While estimated cost of replacing existing plant assets                        the rate-making process gives no and was determined by indexing surviving plant by                        recognition to the current cost of replacing the llandy-Whitman Index of Public Utility                               utility and other plant, the Company, Construction Costs. The current year's provision                         believes, based on past practices, it will be 39

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allowed to carn on the increased cost of its                   a loss of general purchasing power while net investment when replacement of                              holders of monetary liabilities experience a facilities actually occurs.                                    gain. The gain from the decline in
: 3. Gain from decline in purchasing power of                           purchasing power of net amounts owed is net amounts owed:                                                  primarily attributable to the substantial To reflect properly the economics of rate                       amount of debt which has been used to regulation in the Statement of income                           finance utility and other plant. Since the Adjusted for Changing Prices, the                               depreciation on this plant is limited to the reduction of net utility and other plant                        recovery of historical costs, the Company should be ofTset by the gain from the                           does not have the opportunity to realize a decline in purchasing power of net                              holding gain on debt and is limited to amounts owed. During a period of                                recovery only of the embedded cost of inflation, holders of monetary assets suffer                    debt capital.
Statement of Income Adjusted for Changing Prices (Unaudited)
Contentional        Constant Dollar     Current Cost llistorical             Aterage          Aterage l'or the year ended December 31,1982                                        Cost             1982 Dollars      1982 Dollars (In thousands)
Operating revenue                                                     51,307,259            51,307,259         51,307,259 l'uel                                                                      446,521               446,521          446,521 Purchased power.                                                            182,106               182,106          182,106 Other operations and maintenance                                           216,981               216,981          216,981 Depreciation and amortization .                                               89,291              199,161         220,552 Taxes .                                                                     101,951               101,951          101,951 Other - net .                                                               (58,516)              (58,516)         (58,516)
Interest charges                                                           162,946               162,946          162,946 1,141,280              1,251,150        1,272,541 Net income (excluding reduction to net recoverable cost) .            5 165,979             5      56,109*    5 34,718 Increase in specific prices (current cost) of utility aml other plant held during the year"                                                             5                 5 551,924 Reduction to net reemerable cost                                                                 (36,781)       (335,961) tilfect of increase in general price level .                                                                    (231,353) lixcess of increase in general price level over inc; ease ic specific prices after reduction to net recoverable cost                                                       (15,390)
Gain from decline in purchasing power of net amounts owed                                          93,755          93,755      1 Net .                                                                                       5 56,974          5 78.365
* Including the reduction to net recoverable cost, the gain on a constant dollar basis would have been 519,328 for 1982.
             " At December 31,1982, current cost of utility and other plant, net of accumulated depreciation was SS 663,270 while historical cost or net cost recoverable through depreciation was 53,523,506.
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(                Five Year Comparison of Selected Supplementary Financial Data Adjusted for Effects of Changing Prices (Unaudited)
Years Ended December 31, 1982             1981           1980              1979             1978 tin thousands of aserace 1982 dollars Operating retenue . .                   ... .....                          $ 1,307,259 $1,297,511 51,178,330 $1,150,198 51,062,975 llistorical cost information adjusted for general inf'a: ion:
Net income (excluding reduction to net recoverable cost)              ..          ... ...                           56,109          61,183         44,184             28,758 Net income per common share (after divi-dend requirements on preferred and preferer:ce stock) ...                                   ...                     .26              .54            .33                .20 Net assets at year-end at net recoverable cost . . . .....                                                         1,341,783       1,092,897       1,006,801         1,006,662 Current Cost Information:
Net income (excluding reduction to net recoverable cost)                    ... .....                               34,718           47,191        23,555               7,315 income (Loss) per common share (after dividend requirements on preferred and preference stock and excluding reduction to net recoverable cost) . . .             ......                              (.07)             .28           (.12)              (.34)
Excess of increase in general price level over increase in specific prices after reduction to net recoverable cost                                  ...               (15,390)       (149,907)      (241,294)         (227,679)
Net assets at year-end at net recoverable cost . . . . .                                                           1,341,783      1,092,897       1,006,801         1,006,662 General Information:
Gain from decline in purchasing power of net amounts owed . . .                              ...                     93,755          174,756       219,983            211,123 Cash dividends declared per common share                                         $ 1.56            51.57         $ 1.63             $ 1.81                      $ 1.84 N1arket price per common share at year-end                                       13.14            12.20         13.02              13.84                       16.75 Average consumer price index .                                                  289.3             272.4         246.8              217.4                       195.4 Alf DITORS' REPORT To the Shareholders of Gulf States Utilities Company:
We have examined the balance sheet and statement of capitalization of GULF STATES UTILITIES CON 1PANY as of December 31,1982 and 1981, and the related statements of income, sources of funds invested in utility and other plant and changes in capital stock and retained earnings for each of the three > cars in the period ended December 31,1982. Our examinations were made in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and, accord-ingly, included such tests of the accounting records and such other auditing procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances.
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly the financial position of GULF STATES UTILITIES CON 1PANY as of December 31,1982, and 1981, and the results of its operations and sources of its funds invested in utility and other plant for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 1982, in conformity with general'y accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis except for the change, with which we concur, in the method of accounting for fuel costs (etTective January 1,1981) as described in Note 2 to the financial statements.
COOPERS & LYHRAND llouston, Texas February 4,1983 41

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Statistical Summary                            J For the years ended December 31 ELECTRIC                                                         19H2            1981            1980             1979             1978 Number of customers at year end:
Residential .                                            465,162         455,160         438,560          423,850           407,761 Commercial                                                 55,265          52,955          52,731           50,807           48,892 Industrial . . .                                            4,165            3,852           3,414           3,386             3,392 Temporary Construction                                       3,132           2,871           3,354           3,279             4,304 Other,                                                       1,985 _ 1,974                   1,984            1,873            1,790 Total .                                             529,709         516,812         500,0 3          483,195           466,139 Sales - Kilowatt-hours (thousands):
Residential .                                         5,991,578        5,717,715       5,682,016        5,147,436         5,198,421 Commercial                                            4,359,739        4,178,126       3,969,390        3,759,289         3,738,114 Industria1. . . .                                    I3,728,469 15,066,330 14,870,419 14,961,211                         14,447,417 Temporary Construction                                     48,170          50,306          37,691           44,059            42,358 Other.                                                 2,261,350       2,797,761       3,098,910        2,638,490         2,452,228 Total Sales .                                   26,389,306 27,810,238 27,658.426 26,550,485 25,878,538 Revenue (thousands):
Residential .                                        $ 362,223 5 315,625 5 249,603 5 203,029 5 181,967                                           <
Commercial                                               226,104          198,676         157,616          133,988           117,987 Industrial . . . .                                       495,461         494,388         413,265          364,797           291,259 Temporary Construction                                       2,786           2,723           1,728            1,673             1,367 Other.                                                    102,370          95,110          82,659           65,928            53,319 Total Electric Revenue .                        51,188,944 51,106,522 5 904,871 5 769,415 5 645,899 Average Annual KWil Use Per Customer:
Residential .                                               13.015          12,786          13,173           12,374           13,009 Commercial                                                 80,814          79.558          76,529           75,291            77.472 Industrial . . . . . .                                3,451,098       4,095,224       4.340,461        4,402,946         4,221,922 Revenue Per KWil -(cents):
Residential .                                                 6.05            5.52            4.39             3.94             3.50 Commercial                                                     5.19            4.76             3.97            3.56              3.16 Industrial     ....          .....                            3.61            3.28             2.78            2.44              2.02 Electric Energy Output - Thousands of.......
KWil:
Net Generated . . . . . . ...                       25,523,512 28,115,700 27,775,374 25,381,996 28,299,011 Net Purchased and Interchanged...                     5,160,731       4,411,795       4,507,245        5.871,615          1,985,508 30,684,243 32,527.495 32,282,619 31.253,611                         30,284,519 System Peak 1.oad -Including Interruptible Load ( A1W) . ....... ....                                   5,164           5,542           5,604            5,229            5,138 Total Capability (including Contract Purchases)- At Time of System Peak I.oad (M W) .                                                7,208           6,745           6,602            6,169            5,620            (
Load Factor .                                                     67,8 %           67.0 %           65.27r          68.2 %           67.3 %
STEAM:
Steam Revenue (thousands) .                              5 75,213 5 77,624 5 69,346 5 68,278 5 50,513                                                I Steam Sales -- KWil (millions) . .                               2,579           2,887           2,927            3,191            3,013 Steam Sales - millions of Pounds                                 9,447         12,209          14,906           14,796            15,787           4 GAS:
Gas Revenue (thousands).                                 5 43,102 5            37,568 5 31,009 5 26,645 5 21,546 Number of Customers . . .              ..                     85,394          85,664          85,218           83,910            82,391 Output - MM cu. ft. of natural gas purchased . . ..                                             8,229           8,738           9,148           10,333           10,734 Saks - M M cu. ft.                                               8,535           8,599           9,097            9,892           10,207 Weather Data:
Cwling degree days (Normal 2,726) .                              2,883           2,775           2,910            2,502             3.017 Percentage change from normal . . . .                              5.8              1.8             6.7           (8.2)              10.7 Ileating degree days (Normal 1.558) .                           1,588            1,620           1,637            1,885            2,002            ,
Percentage change from normal                                      1.9             4.0              5.1            21.0              28.5           !
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                \' ice President-lucker Anthony          *Nat S. Rogers
                .\tanaecment Corp.                         Chairman v)ihe Hoard-First Cirv Hoston. .\ tass. (19591                    Hancorporation of Tetas. Inc. and First City NationalBank ofHouston Dr. Frederie A. llolloway                  Houston. Tt. (197N)
Consultant Retired Euon \' ice President-Science    *llismark A. Steinhagen and li chnology                            Partner-Steinhagen Oil Co.
Haton Ronce, las. (1979)                   Heaumont. Tt. I197-1)
William II. lxillanc, Jr.                  James E. Taussig 11 President-Haton Rouge Supply Co. , Inc. Real Estate Development Baron Rouge, In. I1971)                    Inte Charles, lat. I1975)
* Norman R. txe
* Etecutive Committee President and Chief Operating Ollicer   ,,(paj,.rnan, Etc< utive Committee Beaumont. Tt. (1967)                   ( ; g.a, yfec,(g
* Paul W. MuiTill Chairman of the Hm:rd and Chief Ete claire Oficer Beaumont, Tt. I1973)
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             ' \1umil(l)48                               \ we I resident-Public Allairs Chairman of th< Hoard and Chu (Etccutis e 01licer lidward J. Serw an (4161 President                                             Vice President-Pnninction Norman R. l.cc (34158                                 Aubres D. SprawIs(33154
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Prcsident and Chirl Operatine Ollicer                 Vice President-Consumer Senices Summa L Stelly (34157 lhecutise Vice Yresidents Vice President-hmisiana Operation 3 Joseph li. Ilondurant (25) 53 Etecutive Vice President-operations                   J. Gary Weigand (5) 47 Vice President-Nuclear Operations Joseph L Donnelly (4 > 53 faccutive Vice President-Finance                      Jasper V Worthy (27) 54 Vice President-(lencralServices tilward N1. leggins (24) 52 Etccutive Vice President-Adminntrative and Technical  Disision Viec Yresidents SC"IC#*                                           John W. Conley (25) 51 Division Vice rresident-Western Senior Vice Yresidents
   'Ihomas 11. Ilurbank (4) 61                           James li. N1oss (24) 47 Senior Via President-Etecutive Pn>jects               Division Vice President-Haton Rouge William J. Cahill, Jr. (3) 59                          Arden D. loughmiller (22145 Senior Vice President-River Hend Nuclear Group        Division Vice President-Heaumont
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li. l. inn Draper t4141                                J. Ted N1einscher (32) 50 Senior Vice President-Etternal Atfairs                Division Vice President-hde Charles Ronald N1. .\leKenzie (15) 42 Vice Presidents                                       Division Vice President-Port Arthur James R. Aldridye(3)52 Vice President-Human Resources                        Other Umcers William li. Ilarksdale (25) 51                        Leshe D. Cobb (27) 48 Vice President-TechnicalScrvices                      Secretarv
* James C. Deddens to) 54                               llobby J. Willis(21)47 Vice President -River Rcnd Nuclear ciroup             controller James H. Dem Jr. (42162                               Jack L Schenck (2)44 Vice President-Pon er Plant Engineering and Desixn    licasurer Anti.ony V Gabrielle (3) 55                           Roy E. Eyler (24) 58 Assistant Secretary Vice President - Computer Application s Charles D. Glass (33154                               Jon Y. Tres elise (2i 37 Vice President-lhas Operations                        Assistant Controller Calsin J. lieben (20) 48                              Cly de W. N1ellride (5) 31 Vice President-FinancialSenices                       Assistant freasurer Wilham J. JelTerson (3) 53
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Pon Anhur. lewas 77t40                   ' thursday. Stay 5.1983 in the company \ headquarters. 350 Pine lhehaas 75 Nonh                          Street. lleaumont. Tesas. Ivrnul notices of the meeting, pros) state-Conroe. lesas 77301                      inents and proues will be maiicd to the common shareholders on or a    ut N1arth 3. M3. Mmboklers are insited to attend but it they 416 North floulesard cannot. thes are urged to fill out and retum their proxies.
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