SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                                 Washington, DC

                                   FORM U-6B-2

                           Certificate of Notification

        Certificate  is filed by:  Ohio  Edison  Company  ("Ohio  Edison" or the
"Company"), a wholly owned subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., a registered holding
company,  pursuant to Rule  U-20(d) and Rule  U-52(c)  adopted  under the Public
Utility Holding Company Act of 1935.

        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 securities:

        In connection with the remarketing of $108,000,000  aggregate  principal
        amount of  Beaver  County  Industrial  Development  Authority  Pollution
        Control  Revenue  Refunding  Bonds,  Series 1999-A (Ohio Edison  Company
        Project) (the "Authority Bonds"),  Ohio Edison entered into an Insurance
        Agreement  dated as of June 1, 2004 with  Financial  Guaranty  Insurance
        Company (the "Bond Insurer").  Pursuant to the Insurance Agreement,  the
        Bond  Insurer  delivered  to the  trustee  for  the  Authority  Bonds  a
        financial  guaranty  insurance  policy  (the  "Bond  Insurance  Policy")
        insuring the payment of the  principal of and interest on the  Authority
        Bonds when due.

        Pursuant to the Insurance  Agreement,  Ohio Edison issued to the trustee
        for the Authority  Bonds a series of its mortgage  bonds (the  "Mortgage
        Bonds") under its General  Mortgage and Deed of Trust,  dated January 1,
        1998,  from  the  Company  to The  Bank of New  York,  as  trustee,  (as
        supplemented,  the "1998  Mortgage"),  in an aggregate  principal amount
        equal to the principal amount of the Authority Bonds. The Mortgage Bonds
        were issued to the trustee for the Authority  Bonds to secure  repayment
        to such  trustee of amounts the Bond  Insurer  may pay on the  Authority
        Bonds under the Bond  Insurance  Policy.  The Mortgage Bonds were issued
        upon the basis of the issuance to The Bank of New York, as trustee under
        the 1998  Mortgage,  of a like principal  amount of the Company's  first
        mortgage bonds (the "First  Mortgage  Bonds") under its Indenture to The
        Bank of New York, as successor  trustee,  dated as of August 1, 1930 (as
        supplemented and amended,  the "1930  Mortgage,"  together with the 1998
        Mortgage,  the  "Mortgage").  The First  Mortgage Bonds and the Mortgage
        Bonds are referred to collectively herein as the "Bonds."

2.      Issue, renewal or guaranty:

        Issue.

3.      Principal amount of each security:

        $108,000,000



4.      Rate of interest per annum of each security:

        On June 1, 2004 the Authority  Bonds began accruing  interest at a Dutch
        Auction Rate  determined  pursuant to certain Dutch  Auction  Procedures
        described in Appendix D to the  Reoffering  Circular dated May 14, 2004,
        that was distributed in connection with the remarketing of the Authority
        Bonds.  The  first  auction  occurred  on July 7,  2004,  and the  first
        interest  payment date was July 8, 2004.  Following  this initial  Dutch
        Auction  Rate  Period,  interest  on the  Authority  Bonds  was and will
        continue to be adjusted  based upon 35-day  Dutch  Auction  Rate Periods
        unless converted to a different Dutch Auction Rate Period or a different
        interest rate mode by the Company. The permitted interest rate modes are
        a Daily Rate,  a Weekly Rate,  a  Commercial  Paper Rate, a  Semi-Annual
        Rate,  an Annual Rate, a Two-Year  Rate, a Three-Year  Rate, a Five-Year
        Rate, a Long Term Rate or a Dutch Auction Rate.

        The Bonds  will  accrue  interest  at the same rate of  interest  as the
        Authority  Bonds,  but such  interest will be payable only to the extent
        interest on the  Authority  Bonds is paid by the Bond Insurer  under the
        Bond Insurance Policy.

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

        June 1, 2004.

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

        Not applicable.

7.      Date of maturity of each security:

        June 1, 2033, subject to prior redemption.

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

        The Mortgage  Bonds were issued to the trustee for the Authority  Bonds.
        The First Mortgage Bonds were issued to The Bank of New York, as trustee
        under the 1998 Mortgage.

9.      Collateral given with each security:

        The Mortgage,  which secures the Bonds and all other  mortgage  bonds of
        Ohio Edison, serves as a direct first mortgage lien on substantially all
        property and  franchises,  other than  specifically  excepted  property,
        owned by Ohio Edison.

10.     Consideration given for each security:

        Ohio  Edison  issued the Bonds in  consideration  of the Bond  Insurer's
        issuance of the Bond Insurance Policy.

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11.     Application of proceeds of each security:

        The Company received no cash proceeds for the issuance of the Bonds. The
        proceeds of the  remarketing of the Authority Bonds were used to pay the
        purchase price to holders thereof on June 1, 2004.

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 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  percentum  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)):

        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 form 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.


                                                OHIO EDISON COMPANY


                                                By: /s/ Thomas C. Navin
                                                    --------------------------
                                                      Thomas C. Navin
                                                      Treasurer

        Date: July 27, 2004

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