-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, WRlBvq3LbUYvfSPVmO/IjTPMWAR1TQFwW18WONNVk2bVErIZ2fHV2KpeeKbE6vzD Do5gfzW3BLC5QoX86+yEiw== 0000950123-08-008027.txt : 20080908 0000950123-08-008027.hdr.sgml : 20080908 20080718102729 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950123-08-008027 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 FILED AS OF DATE: 20080718 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: MIDAMERICAN ENERGY HOLDINGS CO /NEW/ CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001081316 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ELECTRIC, GAS & SANITARY SERVICES [4900] IRS NUMBER: 942213782 STATE OF INCORPORATION: IA FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 666 GRAND AVE STREET 2: SUITE 500 CITY: DES MOINES STATE: IA ZIP: 50309-2580 BUSINESS PHONE: 515-242-4300 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 666 GRAND AVE STREET 2: SUITE 500 CITY: DES MOINES STATE: IA ZIP: 50309-2580 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: MID AMERICAN ENERGY HOLDINGS CO /NEW/ DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19990308 CORRESP 1 filename1.htm

MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company
666 Grand Avenue, Suite 500
Des Moines, Iowa 50309-2580

July 17, 2008

VIA EDGAR

Mr. H. Christopher Owings
Assistant Director
Division of Corporate Finance
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, NE
Mail Stop 3561
Washington, DC 20549

Re:    Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-151427)

Dear Mr. Owings:

In connection with the above-referenced Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-151427), which was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the ‘‘Commission’’) on June 4, 2008 as amended by Amendment No. 1 filed with the Commission on June 30, 2008, relating to the offer to exchange (the ‘‘Exchange Offer’’) up to $650,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company’s (the ‘‘Issuer’’) 5.75% Senior Notes due 2018 (the ‘‘Exchange Notes’’) for outstanding 5.75% Senior Notes due 2018 (the ‘‘Original Notes’’), the Issuer hereby represents that:

(A)  The Issuer has not entered into any arrangement or understanding with any person to distribute the Exchange Notes to be received in the Exchange Offer and, to the best of the Issuer’s information and belief, each person participating in the Exchange Offer is acquiring the Exchange Notes in its ordinary course of business and has no arrangement or understanding with any person to participate in the distribution of the Exchange Notes to be received in the Exchange Offer. In this regard, the Issuer shall make each person participating in the Exchange Offer aware, through the prospectus relating to the Exchange Offer (the ‘‘Prospectus’’) or otherwise, that if the Exchange Offer is being registered for the purpose of secondary re sales, any holder of Original Notes using the Exchange Offer to participate in a distribution of the Exchange Notes (i) could not rely on the position of the staff of the Commission enunciated in Exxon Capital Holdings Corporation (available May 13, 1988) or similar letters (unlike the Issuer, who is relying on such letters, among other things) and (ii) must comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the ‘‘Securities Act’’), in connection with a secondary resale transaction. The Issuer acknowledges that such a secondary resale transaction should be covered by an effective registration statement containing the selling securityholder information required by Item 507 of Regulation S-K of the Securities Act.
(B)  No broker-dealer that may participate in the Exchange Offer with respect to Original Notes acquired for its own account as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities has entered into any arrangement or understanding with the Issuer or any affiliate of the Issuer to distribute the Exchange Notes to be received in the Exchange Offer.




Mr. H. Christopher Owings
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
July 17, 2008
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(C)  The Issuer (i) shall make each person participating in the Exchange Offer aware, through the Prospectus, that any broker-dealer who holds Original Notes acquired for its own account as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities, and who receives Exchange Notes in exchange for such Original Notes pursuant to the Exchange Offer, may be a statutory underwriter and must deliver the Prospectus in connection with any resale of the Exchange Notes and (ii) shall include in the transmittal letter or similar documentation to be executed by an exchange offeree in order to participate in the Exchange Offer the additional provision that, if the exchange offeree is a broker-dealer holding Original Notes acquired for its own account as a result o f market-making activities or other trading activities, such broker-dealer acknowledges that it will deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of Exchange Notes received in respect of such Original Notes pursuant to the Exchange Offer. The transmittal letter or similar documentation shall also include a statement to the effect that by so acknowledging and by delivering a prospectus, a broker-dealer will not be deemed to admit that it is an ‘‘underwriter’’ within the meaning of the Securities Act.

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Very truly yours,

MIDAMERICAN ENERGY HOLDINGS COMPANY


By: /s/ Douglas L. Anderson
  Name: Douglas L. Anderson
  Title: Senior Vice President and
General Counsel

(Exxon Capital Letter)




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