[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 203 (Friday, October 20, 1995)] [Notices] [Pages 54279-54280] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 95-25962] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION [Release No. 35-26391] Filings Under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as Amended (``Act'') October 13, 1995. Notice is hereby given that the following filing(s) has/have been made with the Commission pursuant to provisions of the Act and rules promulgated thereunder. All interested persons are referred to the application(s) and/or declaration(s) for complete statements of the proposed transaction(s) summarized below. The application(s) and/or declaration(s) and any amendments thereto is/are available for public inspection through the Commission's Office of Public Reference. Interested persons wishing to comment or request a hearing on the applications(s) and/or declaration(s) should submit their views in writing by November 6, 1995, to the Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, DC 20549, and serve a copy on the relevant applicant(s) and/or declarant(s) at the address(es) specified below. Proof of service (by affidavit or, in case of an attorney at law, by certificate) should be filed with the request. Any request for hearing shall identify specifically the issues of fact or law that are disputed. A person who so requests will be notified of any hearing, if ordered, and will receive a copy of any notice or order issued in the matter. After said date, the application(s) and/or declaration(s), as filed or as amended, may be granted and/or permitted to become effective. General Public Utilities Corporation (70-8695) General Public Utilities Corporation (``GPU''), 100 Interpace Parkway, Parsippany, New Jersey 07054, a registered holding company, has filed a declaration under sections 6(a) and 7 of the Act and rules 53 and 54 thereunder. The General Public Utilities Corporation and Subsidiary System Companies Employee Savings Plan for Nonbargaining Employees and the Employee Savings Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees for each of GPU's electric utility subsidiaries, Jersey Central Power & Light Company, Metropolitan Edison Company and Pennsylvania Electric Company (collectively, ``Savings Plans'') are designed to encourage and assist savings and investment by eligible employees through voluntary contributions by employees of a portion of their compensation and by the matching of certain of such contributions by the participants' employers. Amounts contributed to the Savings Plans by or on behalf of each participant are held by a trustee. Separate plan accounts and, as necessary, sub-accounts are maintained for each participant. The trustee invests the amounts held in plan accounts and sub-accounts in the investment fund or funds selected by the participant. The investment funds from which participants may choose currently consist of eleven funds including the ``GPU Stock Fund'' which is designed to provide employees with a convenient way to invest in GPU common stock by providing participants the opportunity to direct that all or a portion of their plan accounts be invested in the GPU Stock Fund. The Savings Plans currently provide that GPU common stock acquired for the GPU Stock Fund by the trustee be purchased in open market transactions through brokers. In order to provide additional equity capital, GPU proposes that shares of its common stock acquired by participants through the GPU Stock Fund may be either purchased by the trustee directly from GPU or in open market transactions, as is now the case. Accordingly, GPU proposes to issue and sell from time to time through December 31, 2000, up to 250,000 authorized but unissued or previously reacquired shares of GPU common stock to participants under the Savings Plans. The purchase price per share paid by participants would be the New York Stock Exchange closing price for GPU [[Page 54280]] common stock for the date on which the purchase of such share is executed. No commission would be charged with respect to any such purchase of GPU common stock. GPU currently has 350 million authorized shares of common stock of which 116,371,998 shares were outstanding at August 31, 1995. GPU will use the net proceeds from the sale of additional common stock to the Savings Plans to make cash capital contributions to its subsidiaries, for working capital, to repay outstanding indebtedness and for other corporate purposes. For the Commission, by the Division of Investment Management, pursuant to delegated authority. Margaret H. McFarland, Deputy Secretary. [FR Doc. 95-25962 Filed 10-19-95; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 8010-01-M