SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                                Washington, D. C.


                                   FORM U-6B-2

                           Certificate of Notification


                              Filed by a registered
                               holding company or
                               subsidiary thereof
                                pursuant to Rule
                               20(d) adopted under
                               the Public Utility
                               Holding Company Act
                                    of 1935.

                      South Carolina Electric & Gas Company
                                  (the 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 48.

     1.    Type of security or securities.

           First Mortgage Bonds (the Bonds)

     2. Issue, renewal or guaranty.

            Issue

     3. Principal amount of each security.

           $150,000,000 in aggregate principal amount.

     4. Rate of interest per annum of each security.

           7.50%

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

           June 14, 2000

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

           Not Applicable

     7. Date of maturity of each security.

           June 15, 2005

     8. Name of persons to whom each security was issued, renewed or guaranteed.

     The Bonds  were  issued to  PaineWebber  Incorporated  and Banc of  America
Securities LLC as representatives  of the underwriters (the Underwriters)  named
in,  and  pursuant  to, the  Underwriting  Agreement  dated  June 6,  2000.  The
Underwriters then sold the Bonds to the public.






     9. Collateral given with each security, if any.

            The Bonds are secured  primarily by (1) a like  principal  amount of
            non-interest  bearing bonds (the Class A Bonds)  issued  pursuant to
            the  Indenture  of  Mortgage,  dated  January  1, 1945 (the  Class A
            Indenture),  between the Company and The Chase  Manhattan  Bank, and
            (2)  the  lien  of the  Indenture  dated  April  1,  1993  (the  New
            Indenture),  between the Company and The Bank of New York. The Class
            A Bonds are  secured by a lien upon  substantially  all of the fixed
            property  and  franchises  used or  useful in the  Company's  public
            utility businesses  (except cash securities,  contracts and accounts
            receivable,  materials  and  supplies,  natural  gas,  oil,  certain
            minerals and mineral  rights and certain  other assets) now owned by
            the Company, with certain exceptions, and the bonds issued under the
            New  Indenture  (including  the  Bonds)  are  secured by a lien upon
            substantially  all of the  properties  of the  Company  used  in the
            generation,   transmission  and  distribution  of  electric  energy,
            together  with any other  property  which the  Company  may elect to
            subject to such lien. The lien of the New Indenture is junior to the
            lien of the Class A Indenture.

     10. Consideration received for each security.

           The Bonds were sold to the  underwriters  at 98.973% of the principal
            amount thereof and to the public at 99.573% of the principal  amount
            thereof.  The  Company  received  proceeds,   before  expenses,   of
            $148,459,500.

     11. Application of proceeds of each security.

           The proceeds  from the sale of the Bonds were used for the payment at
            maturity of the Company's  $100,000,000  First  Mortgage  Bonds,  6%
            series due June 15, 2000. In addition, the proceeds will be used for
            the repayment of  short-term  debt incurred for the financing of the
            Company's construction program and for general corporate purposes.

     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 48       X

     13.    If the  security or  securities  are 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 or less,  exclusive  of days of grace,  as to which
            such company is primarily or secondarily  liable) not more than five
            percentum  of the  principal  amount  and  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
            48 designate the rule under which exemption is claimed.

           Rule 52


                                     South Carolina Electric & Gas Company


                                      By:            /s/Mark R. Cannon
                                                     Mark R. Cannon
                                                     Controller

Dated:    June 22, 2000