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                                                     Filed with the Securities
                                                      and Exchange Commission
                                                           on May 30, 2001


                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549


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In the Matter of                                     INTERIM CERTIFICATE

Conectiv and Subsidiaries                                     OF

File No. 70-9499                                         NOTIFICATION

(Public Utility Holding Company                      PURSUANT TO RULE 24
Act of 1935)

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This Certificate of Notification pursuant to Rule 24 (18 C.F.R. Section 250.24)
is filed by Conectiv, a Delaware Corporation, in connection with transactions
proposed in Post-Effective Amendments Nos. 1 to 5 to the Declaration on Form U-1
in the above File as previously amended by amendment No. 1 and authorized by
orders (the "Orders") of the Securities and Exchange Commission dated
September 27, 1999, January 28, 2000 and April 27, 2000.

         The following transactions have been completed:

         On March 27, 2001, the Board of Directors of Conectiv declared a Common
         Stock dividend of $18,069,357.46 and a Common Stock Class A dividend of
         $4,557,226.40 for total dividend payments of $22,626,583.86. As of
         March 31, 2001, accumulated retained earnings after accounting for the
         common dividends declared amounted to $60,784,000. Therefore, no action
         was undertaken pursuant to the Orders.

The foregoing transactions as described above and in the Application/Declaration
have been carried out in accordance with the terms and conditions of and for the
purposes represented by the Application/Declaration and the Orders issued by the
Commission with respect thereto.




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                                    SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935,
the undersigned companies have duly caused this document to be signed on their
behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

The signatures of the applicants and of the persons signing on their behalf are
restricted to the information contained in this application which is pertinent
to the application of the respective companies.


                                          CONECTIV
                                          ATLANTIC CITY ELECTRIC COMPANY
                                          DELMARVA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY

May 30, 2001                            /s/ Philip S. Reese
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                                          Philip S. Reese
                                          Vice President and Treasurer