SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

         		              Washington, D.C. 20549


                                 FORM U-6B-2

                     	Certificate of Notification


Certificate is filed by:  The Connecticut Light and Power Company           
     
     This certificate is notice that the above-named company has issued, 
renewed or guaranteed the security or securities described herein which 
issue, renewal or guaranty was exempted from the provisions of Section 6(a) 
of the Act and was neither the subject of a declaration or application on
Form U-1 nor included within the exemption provided by Rule U-48.

1.   Type of the security or securities:     8.59 % Series G Intermediate
					   				Term Notes (the "Notes")  

2.   Issue, renewal or guaranty:

    The Notes were issued by Bankers Trust Company, solely as trustee of the 
Niantic Bay Fuel Trust (the "Trust") under a Trust Agreement, dated as of 
January 4, 1982, as amended and restated as of February 11, 1992, among 
Bankers Trust Company, State Street Bank and Trust Company of Connecticut, 
National Association, as trustor, and The Connecticut Light and Power Company 
and Western Massachusetts Electric Company, as beneficiaries ("Lessees").  
The Lessees are unconditionally obligated to make basic rental and certain 
other payments in amounts which will be at least sufficient to pay in full, 
when due, all scheduled payments of principal of, premium, if any, and 
interest on, the Notes, although the Notes are not direct obligations of, or 
guaranteed by, the Lessees.


3.   Principal amount of each security:      $180,000,000 aggregate
                                           	  		principal amount

4.   Rate of interest per annum of each security:  8.59% 

5.   Date of issue, renewal or guaranty of each security:   Issued 
                                       			        June 5, 1998 

6.   If renewal of security, give date of original issue:   N/A            

7.   Date of maturity of each security:      June 5, 2003              

8.   Name of the person to whom each security was issued, renewed or
     guaranteed:

The Notes were offered by Bankers Trust Company through Morgan Stanley Dean 
Witter and First Chicago Capital Markets, Inc., as Placement Agents, to 
Qualified Institutional Buyers and Institutional Accredited Investors
           
9.   Collateral given with each security, if any: 
    
      All Secured Parties under the Lease Agreement have a security interest 
in  1) the Lease Agreement under which the Lessees lease nuclear fuel owned 
by the Trust; 2) all nuclear fuel owned by the Trust; 3) all nuclear fuel 
contracts, assignments, and bills of sale financed by the Trust; and 4) other 
rights and assets described under The Amendment to and Restatement of 
Security Agreement and Assignment of Contracts, dated as of February 11, 
1992, which amends and restates the Security Agreement and Assignment of 
Contracts, dated as of January 4, 1982, and is between Bankers Trust Company, 
as Trustee, and The First National Bank of Chicago, as Collateral Agent, as 
amended and supplemented by the First Supplement and Amendment thereto, dated 
as of May 1, 1998, and as the same may be further supplemented, modified or 
amended from time to time (the "Security Agreement").

     In addition to the above-described Collateral, The Connecticut Light and 
Power Company and Western Massachusetts Electric Company have pledged an 
aggregate of $90,000,000 of First Mortgage Bonds, of which amount The 
Connecticut Light and Power Company's share is $72,900,000.

10.  Consideration received for each security:    100%

11.  Application of proceeds of each security:

       Proceeds from the Notes will be used 1) to refinance the Series F 
Intermediate Term Notes previously issued by the Trust; 2) to repay the 
outstanding balance of the Trust's currently existing Credit Facility; 3) to 
pay fees and expenses associated with the offering of the Notes; and 4) 
otherwise to remain in the cash collateral account under, and subject to 
dispersal only in accordance with, the Security Agreement.
       
12.  Indicate by a check after the applicable statement below whether the 
issue, renewal or guaranty of each security was exempt from the provisions of 
Section 6(a) because of:

     a.   the provisions contained in the first sentence of Section 6(b):     

     b.   the provisions contained in the fourth sentence of Section 6(b):     

     c.   the provisions contained in any rule of the Commission other than 
Rule U-48:     
                         X                                                 

13.  If the security or securities were exempt from the provisions of Section 
6(a) by virtue of the first sentence of Section 6(b), give the figures which 
indicate that the security or securities aggregate (together with all other 
than outstanding notes and drafts of a maturity of nine months or less, 
exclusive of days of grace, as to which such company is primarily or 
secondarily liable) not more than 5 per centum of the principal amount and 
par value of the other securities of such company then outstanding.  (Demand 
notes, regardless of how long they may have been outstanding, shall be 
considered as maturing in not more than nine months for purposes of the 
exemption from Section 6(a) of the Act granted by the first sentence of 
Section 6(b).) 

                                   N/A                                     
                    
14.  If the security or securities are exempt from the provisions of Section 
6(a) because of the fourth sentence of Section 6(b), name the security 
outstanding on January 1, 1935, pursuant to the terms of which the security 
or securities herein described have been issued:

                                   N/A                                     
               

15.  If the security or securities are exempt from the provisions of Section 
6(a) because of any rule of the Commission other than Rule U-48, designate 
the rule under which exemption is claimed:

                              Rule 52                                 


                         THE CONNECTICUT LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY


                              By   /s/Jane P. Seidl
                                      Senior Counsel
                                      Northeast Utilities Service Company  
                                      Its Attorney                           

                    
 

Date:     June 15, 1998