-----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, Dai/LuTIFjUf/Ne+s38dOKCQ32aOKyg1+OWpIKJ3mbaQ69vw4R83FOS4Ev5lrNYg TU8U2IGHC9VWvMR9+yD3XA== 0001193125-09-158277.txt : 20091026 0001193125-09-158277.hdr.sgml : 20091026 20090729171619 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-09-158277 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20090729 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: INERGY L P CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001136352 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: RETAIL-NONSTORE RETAILERS [5960] IRS NUMBER: 431918951 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0930 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: TWO BRUSH CREEK STREET 2: SUITE 200 CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64112 BUSINESS PHONE: 8168428181 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Inergy Finance Corp. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001304455 IRS NUMBER: 201647744 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: BUSINESS PHONE: 816-842-8181 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: TWO BRUSH CREEK BLVD., SUITE 200 STREET 2: ATTN: R. BROOKS SHERMAN, JR. CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64112 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Inergy Sales & Service, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001304461 IRS NUMBER: 431931522 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: BUSINESS PHONE: 816-842-8181 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: TWO BRUSH CREEK BLVD., SUITE 200 STREET 2: ATTN: R. BROOKS SHERMAN, JR. CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64112 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Inergy Transportation, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001304462 IRS NUMBER: 431905383 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: BUSINESS PHONE: 816-842-8181 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: TWO BRUSH CREEK BLVD, SUITE 200 STREET 2: ATTN: R. BROOKS SHERMAN, JR. CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64112 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: INERGY MIDSTREAM, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001304464 IRS NUMBER: 201647837 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: BUSINESS PHONE: 816-842-8181 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: TWO BRUSH CREEK BLVD, SUITE 200 CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64112 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: Inergy Acquisition Company, LLC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20040928 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Stellar Propane Service, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001320989 IRS NUMBER: 861123848 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0930 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: TWO BRUSH CREEK BOULEVARD STREET 2: SUITE 200 CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64112 BUSINESS PHONE: 816-842-8181 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: TWO BRUSH CREEK BOULEVARD STREET 2: SUITE 200 CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64112 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Central New York Oil & Gas Company, L.L.C. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001337265 IRS NUMBER: 760519844 STATE OF INCORPORATION: NY FISCAL YEAR END: 0930 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: TWO BRUSH CREEK BOULEVARD STREET 2: SUITE 200 CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64112 BUSINESS PHONE: 816-842-8181 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: TWO BRUSH CREEK BOULEVARD STREET 2: SUITE 200 CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64112 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Inergy Gas Marketing, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001337264 IRS NUMBER: 760620818 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0930 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: TWO BRUSH CREEK BOULEVARD STREET 2: SUITE 200 CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64112 BUSINESS PHONE: 816-842-8181 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: TWO BRUSH CREEK BOULEVARD STREET 2: SUITE 200 CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64112 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ARLINGTON STORAGE COMPANY, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001440143 IRS NUMBER: 261179687 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0930 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: TWO BRUSH CREEK BOULEVARD, SUITE 200 CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64112 BUSINESS PHONE: 816-842-8181 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: TWO BRUSH CREEK BOULEVARD, SUITE 200 CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64112 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Inergy Storage, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001333430 IRS NUMBER: 203143861 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0930 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: TWO BRUSH CREEK BLVD. STREET 2: SUITE 200 CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64112 BUSINESS PHONE: 816-842-8181 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: TWO BRUSH CREEK BLVD. STREET 2: SUITE 200 CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64112 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Finger Lakes LPG Storage, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001333831 IRS NUMBER: 203143796 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0930 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: TWO BRUSH CREEK BLVD. STREET 2: SUITE 200 CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64112 BUSINESS PHONE: 816-842-8181 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: TWO BRUSH CREEK BLVD. STREET 2: SUITE 200 CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64112 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: Inergy Stagecoach II, LLC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20050721 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Inergy Propane, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001304460 IRS NUMBER: 561995482 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: BUSINESS PHONE: 816-842-8181 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: TWO BRUSH CREEK BLVD., SUITE 200 STREET 2: ATTN: R. BROOKS SHERMAN, JR. CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64112 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: L&L Transportation, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001304463 IRS NUMBER: 431905384 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: BUSINESS PHONE: 816-842-8181 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: TWO BRUSH CREEK BLVD., SUITE 200 STREET 2: ATTN: R. BROOKS SHERMAN, JR. CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64112 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: US Salt, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001444408 IRS NUMBER: 593525498 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: TWO BRUSH CREEK BOULEVARD STREET 2: SUITE 200 CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64112 BUSINESS PHONE: 816-842-8181 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: TWO BRUSH CREEK BOULEVARD STREET 2: SUITE 200 CITY: KANSAS CITY STATE: MO ZIP: 64112 CORRESP 1 filename1.htm Letter to the SEC

Inergy, L.P.

Inergy Finance Corp.

Two Brush Creek Boulevard, Suite 200

Kansas City, Missouri 64112

July 29, 2009

VIA EDGAR

Securities and Exchange Commission

Attn: H. Christopher Owings, Assistant Director

Division of Corporation Finance

100 F Street, N.E.

Mail Stop 3561

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

  Re: Registration Statement on Form S-4
     Filed July 29, 2009
     File No. 333-            

Dear Mr. Owings:

This letter supplements the Registration Statement on Form S-4 of Inergy, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, and Inergy Finance Corp., a Delaware corporation (collectively, the “Registrants”), with respect to an offer to exchange up to $225 million of the Registrants’ 8 3/4% Senior Notes due 2015 (the “Exchange Offer”), which were originally issued on February 2, 2009 in a Rule 144A transaction. In connection with the above-referenced Registration Statement on Form S-4 (the “Registration Statement”), the Registrants hereby confirm and represent as follows:

1.    The Registrants are registering the Exchange Offer in reliance on the Staff’s position set forth in Shearman & Sterling, SEC No-Action Letter (available July 2, 1993), Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, SEC No-Action Letter (available June 5, 1991), and Exxon Capital Holdings Corporation, SEC No-Action Letter (available May 13, 1988) (the “Exxon Capital Letter”).

2.    The Registrants have not entered into any arrangement or understanding with any person to distribute the New Notes to be received in the Exchange Offer and, to the best of the Registrants’ information and belief, each person participating in the Exchange Offer is acquiring the New Notes in its ordinary course of business and has no arrangement or understanding with any person to participate in the distribution of the New Notes to be received in the Exchange Offer. In this regard, the Registrants will make each person participating in the Exchange Offer aware (through the prospectus or the letter of transmittal) that, if such person is tendering Old Notes in the Exchange Offer with the intention of participating in any manner in a distribution of the New Notes, such person (i) cannot rely on the Staff position enunciated in the Exxon Capital Letter or interpretative letters to similar effect and (ii) must comply with the registration and


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prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), in connection with a secondary resale transaction. The Registrants acknowledge that such a secondary resale transaction by such person participating in the Exchange Offer for the purpose of distributing the New Notes should be covered by an effective registration statement containing the selling security holder information required by Item 507 of Regulation S-K.

3.    None of the Registrants nor any affiliate of the Registrants has entered into any arrangement or understanding with any broker-dealer to distribute the New Notes.

4.    The Registrants will make each person participating in the Exchange Offer aware (through the prospectus or the letter of transmittal) that any broker-dealer that will receive New Notes for its own account in exchange for Old Notes that were acquired as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities may be a statutory underwriter and must deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of such New Notes.

5.    The Registrants will include in the letter of transmittal to be executed by an exchange offeree in order to participate in the Exchange Offer a provision to the effect that if the exchange offeree is a broker-dealer holding Old Notes acquired for its own account as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities, such broker-dealer will acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of New Notes received in respect of such Old Notes pursuant to the Exchange Offer. The letter of transmittal also will 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.

Terms used and not otherwise defined in this letter have the meanings given such terms in the prospectus forming a part of the Registration Statement.


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If any additional supplemental information is required by the Staff, please contact Ms. Gillian A. Hobson of Vinson & Elkins L.L.P., whose telephone number and mailing address are shown on the facing sheet of the Registration Statement.

 

Very truly yours,
INERGY, L.P.
By:   INERGY GP, LLC, its Managing General Partner
  By:
 

/s/ Laura L. Ozenberger

 

Laura L. Ozenberger

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

INERGY FINANCE CORP.
By:  

/s/ Laura L. Ozenberger

 

Laura L. Ozenberger

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

 

cc: Gillian A Hobson, Esq.
   Vinson & Elkins L.L.P.
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