-----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, W073OjcCfSLZt08RJRI66dyRqayzs+Elctven9HfaeactMYF7/1xK1IPrJvlisgd RQGqDqSfuzWijEJ2TCM70Q== 0000950172-04-000698.txt : 20040319 0000950172-04-000698.hdr.sgml : 20040319 20040319160626 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950172-04-000698 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: U-57/A PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20040319 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: COVANTA ENERGY CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000073902 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: COGENERATION SERVICES & SMALL POWER PRODUCERS [4991] IRS NUMBER: 135549268 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: U-57/A SEC ACT: 1935 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 073-00123 FILM NUMBER: 04680241 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 40 LANE ROAD CITY: FAIRFIELD STATE: NJ ZIP: 07004 BUSINESS PHONE: 2128686100 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 40 LANE ROAD CITY: FAIRFIELD STATE: NJ ZIP: 07004 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: OGDEN CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 U-57/A 1 was5130.txt SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. FORM U-57/A NOTIFICATION OF FOREIGN UTILITY COMPANY STATUS Filed under Section 33(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended COVANTA BANGLADESH OPERATING, LTD BY COVANTA ENERGY CORPORATION This filing amends and restates the Form U-57 submitted on June 7, 1999 in File 073-00123 in order to notify the SEC of a change in the upstream ownership of Covanta Bangladesh Operating, Ltd. ("Covanta Bangladesh").1 Pursuant to Section 33 of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended ("PUHCA"), Covanta Energy Corporation ("Covanta"), acting on behalf of Covanta Bangladesh, hereby files with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") notice that Covanta Bangladesh is a foreign utility company within the meaning of PUHCA. Covanta requests that the Commission address communications concerning this notice to:
Timothy J. Simpson Glenn J. Berger Senior Vice President and General Counsel Paul Silverman Covanta Energy Corporation Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP 40 Lane Road 1440 New York Ave., N.W. Fairfield, New Jersey 07004 Washington, D.C. 20005 (973) 882-7308 (Tel.) (202) 371-7920 (Tel.) (973) 882-7357 (Fax) (202) 371-7813 (Fax) tsimpson@covantaenergy.com gberger@skadden.com H. Liza Moses LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, LLP 125 W. 55th Street New York, New York 10019-5389 (212) 424-8224 (Tel.) (212) 424-8500 (Fax) Lmoses@llgm.com
- --------------- 1 In connection with the change in name of Covanta Bangladesh's parent company from Ogden Corporation to Covanta Energy Corporation as of March 2001, Applicant changed its name from Ogden Bangladesh Operating, Ltd. to Covanta Bangladesh Operating, Ltd. Item 1 The name and business address of the entity claiming foreign utility company status under Section 33(a) of PUHCA is: Covanta Bangladesh Operating, Ltd. IBD Bhaban (11th Floor) 1/8-A, Rokeya Sharani Sher-e-B angla Nagar, Dhaka - 1207 Bangladesh Covanta Bangladesh operates a barge mounted dual fuel (heavy oil/natural gas) engine power plant (the "Facility"), consisting of eight diesel generator sets, transformers and related onshore facilities, located in Haripur, Bangladesh. The Facility has an aggregate installed capacity of 120 MW while operating on heavy fuel oil and 115 MW while operating on natural gas. The Facility also consists of a 132kV interconnecting transmission line and associated equipment, which is mounted on the barge in order to connect the Facility to the facilities of the Bangladesh Power Development Board (the "BPDB"). The Facility will supply power to BPDB, the state-owned generation and transmission utility in Bangladesh, pursuant to a fifteen-year power purchase agreement. The ownership of Covanta Bangladesh is as follows: Covanta Bangladesh Operating, Ltd., a company organized under the laws of Bangladesh, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Covanta Energy India Investments Ltd., a company organized under the laws of Mauritius, which, in turn, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Covanta Power International Holdings, Inc., which is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Covanta Energy Group, Inc., a company organized under the laws of Delaware. Covanta Energy Group, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Covanta, a company organized under the laws of Delaware, which was recently acquired by, and is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of, Danielson Holding Corporation ("Danielson"). Danielson is a Delaware corporation that engages through subsidiaries in the financial services and specialty insurance business. Danielson is a publicly traded company whose shares are widely held by individual investors as well as financial entities. To Danielson's knowledge, based in part upon information publicly filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the only entities that own five percent or more of Danielson's common stock are: SZ Investments, LLC, a private equity investment fund which owns 17.94 percent of Danielson's common stock; D. E. Shaw Laminar Portfolios, L.L.C., an investment fund ;which owns 7.42 percent of Danielson's common stock; and Third Avenue Value Fund, an investment company managed by Third Avenue Management, which owns 6.92 percent of Danielson's common stock. To Danielson's knowledge, no entity that directly or indirectly owns five percent or more of Danielson's voting securities is a public utility holding company.2 Covanta Bangladesh derives no part of its income, directly or indirectly, from the generation, transmission, or distribution at retail of natural or manufactured gas for heat, lights, or power, within the United States, and Covanta Bangladesh is not a public utility company operating in the United States. Item 2 Covanta Bangladesh is not an associate company, as defined in Section 2(a) of PUHCA, of any public utility company in the United States. Exhibit A The requirement for State commission certification set forth in section 33(a)(2) of PUHCA is not applicable to this notification because Covanta Bangladesh is not an associate company, or an affiliate company of any domestic public utility company. - --------------- 2 D. E. Shaw Laminar, which, as set out above, is expected to own a 5 percent or greater voting interest in Danielson, is an associate company of power marketers that are engaged in the sale of electric power at wholesale but do not own any physical facilities for the generation, transmission or distribution of electric energy for sale. The Commission does not consider power marketers to be electric utility companies under the PUHCA. See, e.g., Arizona Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., et al., 2001 SEC No-Act. LEXIS 685, at *54 (2001) (and citations therein); Enron Capital & Trade Resources Corp., SEC 1987 No-Act. LEXIS (1987). SIGNATURE The undersigned company has duly caused this statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized. COVANTA ENERGY CORPORATION By: /s/ Timothy J. Simpson ------------------------- Timothy J. Simpson Senior Vice President and General Counsel Dated: March 19, 2004
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