SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                   Washington, D.C.  20549
                              
                         FORM U-6B-2
                              
                 Certificate of Notification
                              
                  Certificate is filed by:
                              
               New Orleans Public Service Inc.
                      639 Loyola Avenue
                New Orleans, Louisiana  70113
                              
                              
     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 Public
Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended, 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 security or securities:
             General and Refunding Mortgage
             Bonds.
             
      2.     Issue, renewal or guaranty:
             Issue.
             
      3.     Principal amount of each security:
             $30,000,000.00
             
      4.     Rate of interest per annum of each
             security:
             8.67% per annum.
             
      5.     Date of issue, renewal or guaranty
             of each security:
             Issued on April 27, 1995, dated as
             of April 1, 1995.
             
      6.     If renewal of security, give date of
             original issue:
             Not applicable.
             
      7.     Date of maturity of each security:
             April 1, 2005
             
      8.     Name of the person to whom each
             security was issued, renewed or
             guaranteed:
             Cede & Co.

      9.     Collateral given with each security,
             if any:
             A mortgage lien on all of the
             existing and after- acquired
             properties of NOPSI, subject to
             certain exceptions.
             
     10.     Consideration received for each
             security:
             $29,805,000.00, plus accrued
             interest from April 1, 1995 to April
             27, 1995.
             
     11.     Application of proceeds of each
             security:
             The net proceeds from the issuance
             and sale of the securities will be
             used to reimburse the Company for
             the payment at maturity of $9.2
             million aggregate principal amount
             of its General and Refunding
             Mortgage Bonds, 13.90% Series, due
             February 1, 1995; to make a required
             sinking fund payment of $15 million
             on May 1, 1995 on the Company's
             General and Refunding Mortgage
             Bonds, 10.95% Series due, May 1,
             1997; and for other corporate
             purposes.
             
     12.     Indicate by ("X") 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 then
             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
             of par value of the other securities
             of such company then outstanding:
             Not applicable.
             

     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:
             Not applicable.
             
     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.
             


                            NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC SERVICE INC.
                            
                            
                            BY   /s/ Lee W. Randall
                                 Vice President, Chief
                                   Accounting Officer
                                and Assistant Secretary
                                            
Date:  April 28, 1995