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.

           $200,000,000 in aggregate principal amount

     4. Rate of interest per annum of each security.

           5.80%

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

           January 23, 2003

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

           Not Applicable

     7. Date of maturity of each security.

           January 15, 2033







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

           The Bonds were issued to Morgan Stanley & Co, Incorporated, Wachovia
           Securities, Inc. and BNY Capital Markets, Inc. as representatives of
           the underwriters (the Underwriters) named in, and pursuant to, the
           Underwriting Agreement dated January 15, 2003. 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 first and refunding mortgage bonds (the Class A
            Bonds) issued pursuant to the Indenture dated as of January 1, 1945
            (the Class A Indenture), between the Company and JPMorgan Chase
            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 98.802% of the principal
            amount thereof and to the public at 99.677% of the principal amount
            thereof. The Company received aggregate proceeds before expenses of
            $197,604.000.

     11. Application of proceeds of each security.

           The net proceeds from the sale of the Bonds will be used for the
            repayment of short-term debt 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 Section6(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 James E. Swan, IV
                                       -----------------------------------
                                       James E. Swan, IV
                                       Controller

Dated:  January 31,  2003