PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORPORATION
(formerly PP&L, Inc. and
Pennsylvania Power & Light Company)
TO
DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS
(formerly Bankers Trust
Company,
successor to Morgan Guaranty
Trust Company of New York,
formerly Guaranty Trust Company
of New York)
As Trustee under PPL Electric
Utilities Corporation’s
Mortgage and Deed of
Trust,
Dated as of October 1,
1945
_____________________________
Seventy-eighth Supplemental Indenture
Providing among other things
for
First Mortgage Bonds, Variable
Rate Pollution Control Series 2008
_____________________________
Dated as
of October 1, 2008
Seventy-eighth Supplemental
Indenture
SEVENTY- eighth SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of the
1st
day of October, 2008 made and
entered into by and between PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORPORATION
(formerly PP&L, Inc. and Pennsylvania Power & Light
Company), a corporation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, whose
address is Two North Ninth Street, Allentown, Pennsylvania 18101
(hereinafter sometimes called the Company), and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST
COMPANY AMERICAS (formerly Bankers Trust Company), a corporation of
the State of New York, whose address is 60 Wall Street, New York,
New York 10005 (hereinafter sometimes called the Trustee), as
Trustee under the Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of
October 1, 1945 (hereinafter called the Mortgage and, together
with any indentures supplemental thereto, hereinafter called the
Indenture), which Mortgage was executed and delivered by
Pennsylvania Power & Light Company to secure the payment of
bonds issued or to be issued under and in accordance with the
provisions of the Mortgage, reference to which said Mortgage is
hereby made, this instrument (hereinafter called the Seventy-eighth
Supplemental Indenture) being supplemental thereto.
WHEREAS, said Mortgage was or is to be recorded
in various Counties in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which
Counties include or will include all Counties in which this
Seventy-eighth Supplemental Indenture is to be recorded;
and
WHEREAS, by amendment to its Articles of
Incorporation filed in the Office of the Secretary of State of
Pennsylvania on September 12, 1997, the Company changed its
name to PP&L, Inc.; and
WHEREAS, by an amendment to its Articles of
Incorporation filed with the Office of the Secretary of State of
Pennsylvania on February 14, 2001, the Company changed its
name to PPL Electric Utilities Corporation; and
WHEREAS, an instrument, dated August 5, 1994,
was executed by the Company appointing Bankers Trust Company as
Trustee in succession to said Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New
York (resigned) under the Indenture, and by Bankers Trust Company
accepting said appointment, which instrument was or is to be
recorded in various Counties in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania;
and
WHEREAS, by an amendment to its Articles of
Incorporation filed in the office of the Secretary of State of New
York, effective April 15, 2002, the Trustee changed its name to
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas; and
WHEREAS, by the Mortgage the Company covenanted
that it would execute and deliver such supplemental indenture or
indentures and such further instruments and do such further acts as
might be necessary or proper to carry out more effectually the
purposes of the Indenture and to make subject to the lien of the
Indenture any property thereafter acquired and intended to be
subject to the lien thereof; and
WHEREAS, the Company executed and delivered as
supplements to the Mortgage, the following supplemental
indentures:
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Designation
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Dated as
of
|
|
|
|
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First
Supplemental
Indenture
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July 1,
1947
|
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Second
Supplemental
Indenture
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December 1,
1948
|
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Third
Supplemental
Indenture
|
February 1,
1950
|
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Fourth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
March 1,
1953
|
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Fifth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
August 1,
1955
|
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Sixth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
December 1,
1961
|
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Seventh
Supplemental
Indenture
|
March 1,
1964
|
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Eighth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
June 1,
1966
|
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Ninth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
November 1,
1967
|
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Tenth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
December 1,
1967
|
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Eleventh
Supplemental
Indenture
|
January 1,
1969
|
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Twelfth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
June 1,
1969
|
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Thirteenth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
March 1,
1970
|
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Fourteenth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
February 1,
1971
|
|
Fifteenth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
February 1,
1972
|
|
Sixteenth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
January 1,
1973
|
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Seventeenth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
May 1,
1973
|
|
Eighteenth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
April 1,
1974
|
|
Nineteenth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
October 1,
1974
|
|
Twentieth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
May 1,
1975
|
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Twenty-first
Supplemental
Indenture
|
November 1,
1975
|
|
Twenty-second
Supplemental
Indenture
|
December 1,
1976
|
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Twenty-third
Supplemental
Indenture
|
December 1,
1977
|
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Twenty-fourth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
April 1,
1979
|
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Twenty-fifth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
April 1,
1980
|
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Twenty-sixth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
June 1,
1980
|
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Twenty-seventh
Supplemental
Indenture
|
June 1,
1980
|
|
Twenty-eighth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
December 1,
1980
|
|
Twenty-ninth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
February 1,
1981
|
|
Thirtieth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
February 1,
1981
|
|
Thirty-first
Supplemental
Indenture
|
September 1,
1981
|
|
Thirty-second
Supplemental
Indenture
|
April 1,
1982
|
|
Thirty-third
Supplemental
Indenture
|
August 1,
1982
|
|
Thirty-fourth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
October 1,
1982
|
|
Thirty-fifth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
November 1,
1982
|
|
Thirty-sixth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
February 1,
1983
|
|
Thirty-seventh
Supplemental
Indenture
|
November 1,
1983
|
|
Thirty-eighth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
March 1,
1984
|
|
Thirty-ninth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
April 1,
1984
|
|
Fortieth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
August 15,
1984
|
|
Forty-first
Supplemental
Indenture
|
December 1,
1984
|
|
Forty-second
Supplemental
Indenture
|
June 15,
1985
|
|
Forty-third
Supplemental
Indenture
|
October 1,
1985
|
|
Forty-fourth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
January 1,
1986
|
|
Forty-fifth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
February 1,
1986
|
|
Forty-sixth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
April 1,
1986
|
|
Forty-seventh
Supplemental
Indenture
|
October 1,
1986
|
|
Forty-eighth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
March 1,
1988
|
|
Forty-ninth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
June 1,
1988
|
|
Fiftieth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
January 1,
1989
|
|
Fifty-first
Supplemental
Indenture
|
October 1,
1989
|
|
Fifty-second
Supplemental
Indenture
|
July 1,
1991
|
|
Fifty-third
Supplemental
Indenture
|
May 1,
1992
|
|
Fifty-fourth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
November 1,
1992
|
|
Fifty-fifth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
February 1,
1993
|
|
Fifty-sixth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
April 1,
1993
|
|
Fifty-seventh
Supplemental
Indenture
|
June 1,
1993
|
|
Fifty-eighth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
October 1,
1993
|
|
Fifty-ninth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
February 15,
1994
|
|
Sixtieth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
March 1,
1994
|
|
Sixty-first
Supplemental
Indenture
|
March 15,
1994
|
|
Sixty-second
Supplemental
Indenture
|
September 1,
1994
|
|
Sixty-third
Supplemental
Indenture
|
October 1,
1994
|
|
Sixty-fourth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
August 1,
1995
|
|
Sixty-fifth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
April 1,
1997
|
|
Sixty-sixth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
May 1,
1998
|
|
Sixty-seventh
Supplemental
Indenture
|
June 1,
1999
|
|
Sixty-eighth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
August 1,
2001
|
|
Sixty-ninth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
January 1,
2002
|
|
Seventieth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
February 1,
2003
|
|
Seventy-first
Supplemental
Indenture
|
May 1,
2003
|
|
Seventy-second
Supplemental
Indenture
|
February 1,
2005
|
|
Seventy-third
Supplemental
Indenture
|
May 1,
2005
|
|
Seventy-fourth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
June 1,
2005
|
|
Seventy-fifth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
December 1,
2005
|
|
Seventy-sixth
Supplemental
Indenture
|
August 1,
2007
|
|
Seventh-seventh
Supplemental
Indenture
|
October 1,
2008
|
which
supplemental indentures were or are to be recorded in various
Counties in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and
WHEREAS, the Company executed and delivered its
Supplemental Indenture, dated July 1, 1954, creating a security
interest in certain personal property of the Company, pursuant to
the provisions of the Pennsylvania Uniform Commercial Code, as a
supplement to the Mortgage, which Supplemental Indenture was filed
in the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
on July 1, 1954, and all subsequent supplemental indentures were so
filed; and
WHEREAS, in addition to the property described
in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, the Company has
acquired certain other property, rights and interests in property;
and
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore issued, in
accordance with the provisions of the Mortgage, as supplemented,
the following series of First Mortgage Bonds:
|
|
Principal
Amount
Issued
|
Principal
Amount
Outstanding
|
|
|
|
|
|
3% Series due
1975
|
$93,000,000
|
None
|
|
2-3/4% Series
due
1977
|
20,000,000
|
None
|
|
|
10,000,000
|
None
|
|
2-3/4% Series
due
1980
|
37,000,000
|
None
|
|
3-1/2% Series
due
1983
|
25,000,000
|
None
|
|
3-3/8% Series
due
1985
|
25,000,000
|
None
|
|
4-5/8% Series
due
1991
|
30,000,000
|
None
|
|
4-5/8% Series
due
1994
|
30,000,000
|
None
|
|
5-5/8% Series
due
1996
|
30,000,000
|
None
|
|
6-3/4% Series
due
1997
|
30,000,000
|
None
|
|
6-1/2% Series
due
1972
|
15,000,000
|
None
|
|
7% Series due
1999
|
40,000,000
|
None
|
|
8-1/8% Series
due June 1,
1999
|
40,000,000
|
None
|
|
9% Series due
2000
|
50,000,000
|
None
|
|
7-1/4% Series
due
2001
|
60,000,000
|
None
|
|
7-5/8% Series
due
2002
|
75,000,000
|
None
|
|
7-1/2% Series
due
2003
|
80,000,000
|
None
|
|
Pollution
Control Series
A
|
28,000,000
|
None
|
|
9-1/4% Series
due
2004
|
80,000,000
|
None
|
|
10-1/8% Series
due
1982
|
100,000,000
|
None
|
|
9-3/4% Series
due
2005
|
125,000,000
|
None
|
|
9-3/4% Series
due November 1,
2005
|
100,000,000
|
None
|
|
8-1/4% Series
due
2006
|
150,000,000
|
None
|
|
8-1/2% Series
due
2007
|
100,000,000
|
None
|
|
9-7/8% Series
due
1983-1985
|
100,000,000
|
None
|
|
15-5/8% Series
due
2010
|
100,000,000
|
None
|
|
11-3/4% Series
due
1984
|
30,000,000
|
None
|
|
Pollution
Control Series
B
|
70,000,000
|
None
|
|
Pollution
Control Series
C
|
20,000,000
|
None
|
|
14% Series due
December 1,
1990
|
125,000,000
|
None
|
|
15% Series due
1984-1986
|
50,000,000
|
None
|
|
14-3/4% Series
A due
1986
|
30,000,000
|
None
|
|
14-3/4% Series
B due
1986
|
20,000,000
|
None
|
|
16-1/2% Series
due
1987-1991
|
$52,000,000
|
None
|
|
16-1/8% Series
due
1992
|
100,000,000
|
None
|
|
16-1/2% Series
due
1986-1990
|
92,500,000
|
None
|
|
13-1/4% Series
due
2012
|
100,000,000
|
None
|
|
Pollution
Control Series
D
|
70,000,000
|
None
|
|
12-1/8% Series
due
1989-1993
|
50,000,000
|
None
|
|
13-1/8% Series
due
2013
|
125,000,000
|
None
|
|
Pollution
Control Series
E
|
37,750,000
|
None
|
|
13-1/2% Series
due
1994
|
125,000,000
|
None
|
|
Pollution
Control Series
F
|
115,500,000
|
None
|
|
12-3/4% Series
due
2014
|
125,000,000
|
None
|
|
Pollution
Control Series
G
|
55,000,000
|
None
|
|
12% Series due
2015
|
125,000,000
|
None
|
|
10-7/8% Series
due
2016
|
125,000,000
|
None
|
|
9-5/8% Series
due
1996
|
125,000,000
|
None
|
|
9% Series due
2016
|
125,000,000
|
None
|
|
9-1/2% Series
due
2016
|
125,000,000
|
None
|
|
9-1/4% Series
due
1998
|
125,000,000
|
None
|
|
9-5/8% Series
due
1998
|
125,000,000
|
None
|
|
10% Series due
2019
|
125,000,000
|
None
|
|
9-1/4% Series
due
2019
|
250,000,000
|
None
|
|
9-3/8% Series
due
2021
|
150,000,000
|
None
|
|
7-3/4% Series
due
2002
|
150,000,000
|
None
|
|
8-1/2% Series
due
2022
|
150,000,000
|
None
|
|
Pollution
Control Series
H
|
90,000,000
|
None
|
|
6-7/8% Series
due
2003
|
100,000,000
|
None
|
|
7-7/8% Series
due
2023
|
200,000,000
|
None
|
|
5-1/2% Series
due
1998
|
150,000,000
|
None
|
|
6-1/2% Series
due
2005
|
125,000,000
|
None
|
|
6% Series due
2000
|
125,000,000
|
None
|
|
6-3/4% Series
due
2023
|
150,000,000
|
None
|
|
Pollution
Control Series
I
|
53,250,000
|
None
|
|
6.55% Series
due
2006
|
150,000,000
|
None
|
|
7.30% Series
due
2024
|
150,000,000
|
None
|
|
6-7/8% Series
due
2004
|
150,000,000
|
None
|
|
7-3/8% Series
due
2014
|
100,000,000
|
10,290,000
|
|
Pollution
Control Series
J
|
115,500,000
|
None
|
|
7.70% Series
due
2009
|
200,000,000
|
325,000
|
|
Pollution
Control Series
K
|
55,000,000
|
None
|
|
Short-Term
Series
A
|
800,000,000
|
None
|
|
6 1/8% REset
Put Securities Series due 2006
|
200,000,000
|
None
|
|
Short-Term
Series
B
|
600,000,000
|
None
|
|
5-7/8% Series
due August 15,
2007
|
300,000,000
|
None
|
|
6-1/4% Series
due August 15,
2009
|
500,000,000
|
485,785,000
|
|
3.125%
Pollution Control Series due
2008
|
90,000,000
|
90,000,000
1
|
|
4.30%
Collateral Series due
2013
|
100,000,000
|
100,000,000
|
|
4.70% Pollution
Control Series due
2029
|
115,500,000
|
115,500,000
|
|
4.75% Pollution
Control Series due
2027
|
108,250,000
|
108,250,000
|
|
4.95%
Collateral Series due
2015
|
100,000,000
|
100,000,000
|
|
5.15%
Collateral Series due
2020
|
100,000,000
|
100,000,000
|
|
6.45%
Collateral Series due
2037
|
$250,000,000
|
$250,000,000
|
|
7.125%
Collateral Series due
2013
|
$400,000,000
|
$400,000,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 To be retired at maturity in
November 2008.
|
|
|
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which bonds are
also sometimes called bonds of the First through Eighty-fifth
Series, respectively; and
WHEREAS, Section 8 of the Mortgage provides that
the form of each series of bonds (other than the First Series)
issued thereunder shall be established by Resolution of the Board
of Directors of the Company and that the form of such series, as
established by said Board of Directors, shall specify the
descriptive title of the bonds and various other terms thereof, and
may also contain such provisions not inconsistent with the
provisions of the Indenture as the Board of Directors may, in its
discretion, cause to be inserted therein expressing or referring to
the terms and conditions upon which such bonds are to be issued
and/or secured under the Indenture; and
WHEREAS, Section 120 of the Mortgage provides,
among other things, that any power, privilege or right expressly or
impliedly reserved to or in any way conferred upon the Company by
any provision of the Indenture, whether such power, privilege or
right is in any way restricted or is unrestricted, may be in whole
or in part waived or surrendered or subjected to any restriction if
at the time unrestricted or to additional restriction if already
restricted, and the Company may enter into any future covenants,
limitations or restrictions for the benefit of any one or more
series of bonds issued thereunder, or the Company may cure any
ambiguity contained therein or in any supplemental indenture or may
establish the terms and provisions of any series of bonds other
than said First Series, by an instrument in writing executed and
acknowledged by the Company in such manner as would be necessary to
entitle a conveyance of real estate to record in all of the States
in which any property at the time subject to the lien of the
Indenture shall be situated; and
WHEREAS, the Company now desires to create a new
series of bonds and to add to its covenants and agreements
contained in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, certain
other covenants and agreements to be observed by it and to alter
and amend in certain respects the covenants and provisions
contained in the Mortgage; and
WHEREAS, the execution and delivery by the
Company of this Seventy-eighth Supplemental Indenture, and the
terms of the bonds of the Eighty-sixth Series, hereinafter referred
to, have been duly authorized by the Board of Directors of the
Company by appropriate Resolutions of said Board of
Directors;
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE
WITNESSETH: That PPL Electric Utilities Corporation, in
consideration of the premises and of One Dollar to it duly paid by
the Trustee at or before the ensealing and delivery of these
presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and in
further evidence of assurance of the estate, title and rights of
the Trustee and in order further to secure the payment both of the
principal of and interest and premium, if any, on the bonds from
time to time issued under the Indenture, according to their tenor
and effect and the performance of all the provisions of the
Indenture (including any modification made as in the Mortgage
provided) and of said bonds, hereby grants, bargains, sells,
releases, conveys, assigns, transfers, mortgages, pledges, sets
over and confirms (subject, however, to Excepted Encumbrances as
defined in Section 6 of the Mortgage) unto Deutsche Bank Trust
Company Americas, as Trustee under the Indenture, and to its
successor or successors in said trust, and to said Trustee and its
successors and assigns forever, all property, real, personal and
mixed, of the kind or nature specifically mentioned in the
Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, or of any other kind or
nature, acquired by the Company after the date of the execution and
delivery of the Seventy-sixth Supplemental Indenture (except any
herein or in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, expressly
excepted and except any which may not lawfully be mortgaged or
pledged under the Indenture), now owne
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