Seventy-sixth Supplemental Indenture

Exhibit 4(a)

ENTERGY GULF STATES LOUISIANA, L.L.C.
(Successor by merger to Entergy Gulf States, Inc., formerly Gulf States Utilities Company)

446 North Boulevard
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802-5717

TO

THE BANK OF NEW YORK
(Successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.)
as Trustee

101 Barclay Street
New York, New York 10286

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Seventy-sixth Supplemental Indenture

Dated as of May 1, 2008

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Relating to an Issue of First Mortgage Bonds,
6.000% Series due May 1, 2018
and Supplementing Indenture of Mortgage
dated September 1, 1926

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THIS INSTRUMENT GRANTS A SECURITY
INTEREST BY A UTILITY

THIS INSTRUMENT CONTAINS AFTER-ACQUIRED
PROPERTY PROVISIONS

THIS SEVENTY-SIXTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of the 1 ^st day of May, 2008, by and between ENTERGY GULF STATES LOUISIANA, L.L.C. (successor by merger to Entergy Gulf States, Inc., formerly Gulf States Utilities Company, a Texas corporation hereinafter sometimes called the Predecessor Company), a limited liability company duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Louisiana (hereinafter sometimes called the Company), party of the first part, and THE BANK OF NEW YORK (successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.), a New York banking corporation and having its corporate trust office in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, as successor trustee under the Indenture of Mortgage and indentures supplemental thereto hereinafter mentioned (hereinafter sometimes called the Trustee), party of the second part;

WITNESSETH: THAT

WHEREAS, the Predecessor Company has heretofore executed and delivered its Indenture of Mortgage, dated September 1, 1926 (hereinafter sometimes called the Original Indenture), to The Chase National Bank of the City of New York, as trustee, in and by which the Predecessor Company conveyed and mortgaged to said The Chase National Bank of the City of New York, as trustee, certain property, therein described, to secure the payment of its bonds issued and to be issued under said Original Indenture in one or more series, as therein provided; and

WHEREAS, the Predecessor Company has heretofore executed and delivered to The Chase National Bank of the City of New York, as trustee, the First through the Fourth Supplemental Indentures, all supplementing and modifying said Original Indenture; and

WHEREAS, on March 21, 1939, The Chase National Bank of the City of New York resigned as trustee under the Original Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto as aforesaid, pursuant to Section 4 of Article XIV of the Original Indenture, and by an Indenture dated March 21, 1939 said resignation was accepted and Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company was duly appointed the successor trustee under the Original Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto, said resignation and appointment both being effective as of March 21, 1939, and the Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company did by said Indenture dated March 21, 1939 accept the trust under the Original Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto; and

WHEREAS, the Predecessor Company has heretofore executed and delivered to Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company, as successor trustee, the Fifth through the Tenth Supplemental Indentures, supplementing and modifying said Original Indenture; and

WHEREAS, the name of Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company, successor trustee, as aforesaid, was changed effective June 30, 1951 to "The Hanover Bank"; and

WHEREAS, the Predecessor Company has heretofore executed and delivered to The Hanover Bank, as successor trustee, the Eleventh through the Twentieth Supplemental Indentures, supplementing and modifying said Original Indenture; and

WHEREAS, on September 8, 1961, pursuant to the laws of the State of New York, The Hanover Bank, successor trustee, as aforesaid, was duly merged into Manufacturers Trust Company, a New York corporation, under the name "Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company," and Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company thereupon became the duly constituted successor trustee under the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified as aforesaid; and

WHEREAS, the Predecessor Company has heretofore executed and delivered to Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, as successor trustee, the Twenty-first through the Fifty-fourth Supplemental Indentures, supplementing and modifying said Original Indenture; and

WHEREAS, on June 19, 1992, pursuant to the laws of the State of New York, Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, successor trustee, as aforesaid, was duly merged into Chemical Bank, a New York corporation, under the name "Chemical Bank," and Chemical Bank thereupon became the duly constituted successor trustee under the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified as aforesaid; and

WHEREAS, the Predecessor Company has heretofore executed and delivered to Chemical Bank, as successor trustee, the Fifty-fifth through the Fifty-seventh Supplemental Indentures, supplementing and modifying said Original Indenture; and

WHEREAS, the name of Chemical Bank, successor trustee, as aforesaid, was duly merged with and changed effective July 14, 1996 to The Chase Manhattan Bank; and

WHEREAS, the Predecessor Company has heretofore executed and delivered to The Chase Manhattan Bank, as successor trustee, the Fifty-eighth through Sixtieth Supplemental Indentures supplementing and modifying said Original Indenture; and

WHEREAS, the name of The Chase Manhattan Bank, successor trustee, as aforesaid, was duly changed effective November 10, 2001 to JPMorgan Chase Bank; and

WHEREAS, the Predecessor Company has heretofore executed and delivered to JPMorgan Chase Bank, as successor trustee, the Sixty-first through Sixty-seventh Supplemental Indentures supplementing and modifying said Original Indenture; and

WHEREAS, effective November 13, 2004, JPMorgan Chase Bank, successor trustee, was converted from a New York corporation to a national banking association under the name "JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A."; and

WHEREAS, the Predecessor Company has heretofore executed and delivered to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as successor trustee, the Sixty-eighth through Seventy-fourth Supplemental Indentures supplementing and modifying said Original Indenture; and

WHEREAS, on October 3, 2007, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. resigned as trustee under the Original Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto as aforesaid, by an Agreement of Resignation, Appointment and Acceptance dated October 3, 2007, said resignation was accepted, and The Bank of New York was duly appointed the successor trustee under the Original Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto, said resignation and appointment both being effective as of October 3, 2007, and The Bank of New York did by said Agreement dated October 3, 2007 accept the trust under the Original Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto; and

WHEREAS, the series of bonds established under the Seventh Supplemental Indenture supplementing and modifying said Original Indenture and under each successive supplemental indenture have been designated respectively and are referred to herein as "Bonds of the 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1989A, 1990, 1992, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1998A, 1999, 1999A, 2000, 2000A, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2009A, 1987A, 2010, 1991, 1993, 1992A, 2012, 2013, 2013A, 1994, 2014B, C and D, 2015, 2016, 2016A, 1994A, 2002, 2022, 2004A, 2024, 1996A, 1997A, 1998B, 1999B, 2003A, MTN, 2003B, 2004B, 2007A, 2012A, 2008, 2007B, 2033, 2015A, 2011, 2009B, 2014E, 2035, 2015B, 2010A, 2006A, 2008A and 2011B Series"; and

WHEREAS, effective as of December 26, 2007, the Predecessor Company obtained the release from the lien of the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified of all of its real property located in Texas and substantially all of its personal property located in Texas that was part of the trust estate, together with certain associated rights, privileges and franchises, as well as certain undivided interests in mortgaged property located in Louisiana, as more particularly described in the instruments of partial release filed with respect thereto on or before December 26, 2007; and

WHEREAS, effective as of 1:00 P.M. Central Standard Time, December 31, 2007, the Predecessor Company underwent a merger by division under Texas law pursuant to which, among other things, all of its property located in Texas, together with certain property located in Louisiana, was allocated to Entergy Texas, Inc., substantially all of its property located in Louisiana was retained by the Predecessor Company, and all of its obligations and liabilities under the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified and the Bonds were retained by the Predecessor Company; and

WHEREAS, effective as of 4:00 P.M. Central Standard Time, December 31, 2007, (hereinafter sometimes called the Effective Time) the Predecessor Company merged (hereinafter sometimes called the Merger) into the Company pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization of Entergy Gulf States, Inc. into Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, L.L.C. and a Certificate and Articles of Merger (hereinafter sometimes collectively called the Merger Documents), pursuant to which, among other things, (1) all of the rights, privileges, franchises, assets, liabilities and obligations of the Predecessor Company were allocated to the Company; and (2) the identity of the Predecessor Company was merged into that of the Company; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 14.01 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, the Company and the Trustee executed the Seventy-fifth Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 31, 2007 whereby the Company assumed and agreed to pay duly and punctually the principal of and interest on the Bonds issued under the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified in accordance with the provisions of said Bonds and the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified, and agreed to perform and fulfill all the terms, covenants and conditions of the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified binding the Predecessor Company; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 14.02 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, the Company has succeeded to the Predecessor Company under the Original Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto with the same effect as if it had been named in the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified, as the mortgagor company and in the Bonds as the obligor thereon or maker thereof;

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 14.03 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, in respect of property owned by the Predecessor Company at the time of the Merger as provided in Section 14.01 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, and substitutions, replacements, additions, betterments, developments, extensions and enlargements thereto subsequently made, constructed or acquired, the rights and duties of the Company shall be the same as the rights and duties of the Predecessor Company would have been had the Merger not taken place; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 14.04 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, in respect of property at the time of the Merger owned by the Company and/or of property thereafter acquired by the Company except said substitutions, replacements, additions, betterments, developments, extensions and enlargements to, of or upon the property owned by the Predecessor Company referred to in Section 14.03 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified shall not become or be a lien upon any of such property; and

WHEREAS, effective as of March 25, 2008, the Company obtained the release from the lien of the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified of all of the remainder of its property located in Texas that was part of the trust estate, together with certain associated rights, privileges and franchises, as well as certain undivided interests in mortgaged property located in Louisiana, as more particularly described in the instruments of partial release filed with respect thereto on or before March 25, 2008; and

WHEREAS, under the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified, any new series of Bonds may at any time be established by the Board of Directors of the Company and the terms thereof may be specified by a supplemental indenture executed by the Company and the Trustee; and

WHEREAS, the Company proposes to create under the Original Indenture, as supplemented and modified as aforesaid and as further supplemented by this Seventy-sixth Supplemental Indenture (the Original Indenture as so supplemented and modified being hereinafter sometimes called the Indenture), a new series of Bonds to be designated First Mortgage Bonds, 6.000% Series due May 1, 2018, such Bonds when originally issued to be dated May 16, 2008 and to mature on May 1, 2018 (hereinafter sometimes referred to as the Bonds of the 2018 Series, and presently to issue $375,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Bonds of the 2018 Series; and

WHEREAS, all acts and proceedings required by law and by the Restated Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws of the Company necessary to make the Bonds of the 2018 Series, when executed by the Company, authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and duly issued, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, and to constitute the Indenture a valid and binding mortgage for the security of all the Bonds of the Company issued or to be issued under the Indenture, in accordance with its and their terms, have been done and taken; and the execution and delivery of this Seventy-sixth Supplemental Indenture have been in all respects duly authorized;

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS SEVENTY-SIXTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

That in order to secure the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on, all Bonds at any time issued and outstanding under the Indenture, according to their tenor, purport and effect, and to secure the performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions in said Bonds and in the Indenture contained, and to declare the terms and conditions upon and subject to which the Bonds of the 2018 Series are and are to be issued and secured, and for and in consideration of the premises and of the mutual covenants herein contained and of the acceptance of the Bonds of the 2018 Series by the holders thereof, and of the sum of $1 duly paid to the Company by the Trustee, at or before the execution and delivery hereof, and for other valuable consideration, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, the Company has executed and delivered this Seventy-sixth Supplemental Indenture, and by these presents does grant, bargain, sell, alienate, remise, release, convey, assign, transfer, mortgage, hypothecate, pledge, set over and confirm unto the Trustee, its successors in trust and assigns, the following property, rights, privileges and franchises hereinafter described, acquired or constructed by the Company after the Effective Time to the extent constituting substitutions, replacements, additions, betterments, developments, extensions or enlargements to, of or upon the trust estate allocated to the Company by the Merger Documents, together in each case with any substitutions, replacements, additions, betterments, developments, extensions and enlargements thereto, thereof or thereupon subsequently made, constructed or acquired by the Company (other than excepted property as hereinafter defined):

CLAUSE I.

All and singular the lands, real estate, chattels real, interests in land, leaseholds, ways, rights of way, grants, easements, servitudes, rights pursuant to ordinances, consents, permits, patents, licenses, lands under water, water and riparian rights, franchises, privileges, immunities, rights to construct, maintain and operate distribution and transmission systems, all other rights and interests, gas, water, steam and electric light, heat and power plants and systems, dams, and dam sites, stations and substations, powerhouses, electric transmission and distribution lines and systems, pipe lines, conduits, towers, poles, wires, cables and all other structures, machinery, engines, boilers, dynamos, motors, transformers, generators, electric and mechanical appliances, office buildings, warehouses, garages, stables, sheds, shops, tunnels, subways, bridges, other buildings and structures, implements, tools and other apparatus, appurtenances and facilities, materials and supplies, and all other property of any nature appertaining to any of the plants, systems, business or operations of the Company, whether or not affixed to the realty, used in the operation of any of the premises or plants or systems, or otherwise, allocated to the Company by the Merger Documents or constituting substitutions, replacements, additions, betterments, developments, extensions or enlargements to, of or upon the trust estate allocated to the Company by the Merger Documents (other than excepted property as hereinafter defined); including (but not limited to) all its properties situated in the Cities of Baton Rouge, Jennings and Lake Charles and in the Parishes of Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberia, Iberville, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Livingston, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Vermilion, Washington, West Baton Rouge and West Feliciana, Louisiana, and vicinity allocated to the Company by the Merger Documents or constituting substitutions, replacements, additions, betterments, developments, extensions or enlargements to the trust estate allocated to the Company by the Merger Documents (other than excepted property as hereinafter defined).

CLAUSE II.

All corporate, Federal, State, county (parish), municipal and other permits, consents, licenses, bridge licenses, bridge rights, river permits, franchises, patents, rights pursuant to ordinances, grants, privileges and immunities of every kind and description allocated to the Company by the Merger Documents or constituting substitutions, replacements, additions, betterments, developments, extensions or enlargements to, of or upon the trust estate allocated to the Company by the Merger Documents (other than excepted property as hereinafter defined).

CLAUSE III.

Also all other property, real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible of every kind, character and description, allocated to the Company by the Merger Documents or constituting substitutions, replacements, additions, betterments, developments, extensions or enlargements to, of or upon the trust estate allocated to the Company by the Merger Documents (other than excepted property as hereinafter defined), whether or not useful in the generation, manufacture, production, transportation, distribution, sale or supplying of electricity, steam, water or gas.

CLAUSE IV.

PROPERTIES EXCEPTED.

There is, however, expressly excepted and excluded from the lien and operation of this Indenture (1) all "excepted property" as defined and described in Granting Clause VII of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, (omitting from such exception specifically described property thereafter expressly subjected to the lien of the Indenture), (2) all property owned by the Company prior to the Merger and (3) all property acquired by the Company after the Merger not constituting substitutions, replacements, additions, betterments, developments, extensions or enlargements to, of or upon the trust estate allocated to the Company by the Merger Documents.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the trust estate and all and singular the lands, properties, estates, rights, franchises, privileges and appurtenances hereby mortgaged, hypothecated, conveyed, pledged or assigned, or intended so to be, together with all the appurtenances thereto appertaining and the rents, issues and profits thereof, unto the Trustee and its successors in trust and to its assigns, forever.

SUBJECT, HOWEVER, to the exceptions (except as omitted above in Clause IV hereof), reservations, restrictions, conditions, limitations, covenants and matters recited in Article Twenty of the Indenture, and in each respective Article Three of the Eighth and each consecutive succeeding Supplemental Indenture through the Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture and, likewise, of the Nineteenth through the Thirty-seventh Supplemental Indentures and, likewise, of the Thirty-ninth through the Fifty-seventh Supplemental Indentures or contained in any deeds and other instruments whereunder the Company has acquired any of the property now owned by it, to permitted encumbrances as defined in Subsection B of Section 1.07 of the Indenture, and, with respect to any property which the Company may hereafter acquire, to all terms, conditions, agreements, covenants, exceptions and reservations expressed or provided in the deeds or other instruments, respectively, under and by virtue of which the Company shall hereafter acquire the same and to any liens thereon existing, and to any liens for unpaid portions of the purchase money placed thereon, at the time of such acquisition.

BUT, IN TRUST, NEVERTHELESS, for the equal and proportionate use, benefit, security and protection of those who from time to time shall hold the Bonds and coupons, if any, authenticated and delivered under the Indenture and duly issued by the Company, without any discrimination, preference or priority of any one Bond or coupon, if any, over any other by reason of priority in the time of issue, sale or negotiation thereof or otherwise, except as provided in Section 12.28 of the of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, so that, subject to said Section 12.28 of the Original Indenture, as restated by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, each and all of said Bonds and coupons, if any, shall have the same right, lien and privilege under the Indenture and shall be equally secured thereby and shall have the same proportionate interest and share in the trust estate, with the same effect as if all the Bonds and coupons, if any, had been issued, sold and negotiated simultaneously.

AND UPON THE TRUSTS, USES AND PURPOSES and subject to the covenants, agreements and conditions of the Original Indenture as modified and supplemented by previous supplemental indentures and by this Seventy-sixth Supplemental Indenture.

1.       Bonds of the 2018 Series and
Certain Provisions Relating Thereto.

1. 1. 1. Terms of Bonds of the 2018 Series . There is hereby established a new series of Bonds to be issued under and secured by the Indenture, to be known as and entitled "First Mortgage Bonds, 6.000% Series due May 1, 2018". The principal amount of the Bonds of the 2018 Series shall not be limited except as provided in Section 3.01 of the Indenture, and except as may otherwise be provided in an indenture supplemental to the Indenture. The definitive Bonds of the 2018 Series shall be registered Bonds without coupons of the denominations of $1,000 and in multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof as shall be authorized by written order of the Company, numbered R-1 consecutively upwards. Bonds of the 2018 Series may be issued in the first instance (until definitive Bonds to be issued in exchange therefor are prepared and ready for delivery) as temporary Bonds dated May 16, 2008, in denominations of $1,000 and of such multiples of $1,000 as shall have been authorized, as aforesaid, numbered TR-1 consecutively upwards, in substantially the form of Bond set forth in Section 1.01C of this Seventy-sixth Supplemental Indenture, with changes therein appropriate to their character.

Initially, the Bonds of the 2018 Series offered and sold to Qualified Institutional Buyers (within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act) in reliance on such Rule 144A shall be issued in the form of a definitive global bond with the depository legend, the non-registration legend and the registration rights legend set forth in the form of Bond set forth herein (the "Rule 144A Global Bond"). Initially, the Bonds of the 2018 Series offered and sold in reliance on Regulation S under the Securities Act shall be issued in the form of a temporary global bond with the depository legend, the Regulation S legend and the registration rights legend set forth in the form of Bond set forth herein (the "Temporary Regulation S Global Bond" and, together with the Permanent Regulation S Global Bond (as defined herein) and the Rule 144A Global Bond, the "Global Bonds"). The Global Bonds shall be deposited with The Depository Trust Company ("DTC") or its custodian and registered in the name of DTC or its nominee, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as provided herein and in the Original Indenture. The aggregate principal amount of each Global Bond may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on such Global Bonds or in the records of the Trustee or DTC or its nominee as hereinafter provided.

Transfers of beneficial interests in the Rule 144A Global Bond will be subject to the restrictions on transfer contained in the non-registration legend set forth in the form of Bond set forth in Section 1.01C of this Seventy-sixth Supplemental Indenture. Prior to the expiration of the period of 40 consecutive days beginning on and including the later of (x) the day on which the offering of the Bonds of the 2018 Series commences and (y) the original issue date of the Bonds of the 2018 Series (the "Distribution Compliance Period"), transfers of beneficial interests in the Temporary Regulation S Global Bond will be subject to the restrictions on transfer contained in the Regulation S legend set forth in the