SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                                Washington, D.C.

                          Three year period ending 2008

                      FORM U-12(I)-B (THREE-YEAR STATEMENT)

  Statement Pursuant to Section 12(i) of Public Utility Holding Company Act of
     1935 by a Person Regularly Employed or Retained by a Registered Holding
        Company or a Subsidiary Thereof and Whose Employment Contemplates
                Only Routine Expenses as Specified in Rule 71(b)

         1. Name and business address of person filing statement.

                  Troutman Sanders LLP, 600 Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 5200,
                  Atlanta, GA 30308-2216

         2. Names and business addresses of any persons through whom the
undersigned proposes to act in matters included within the exemption provided by
paragraph (b) of Rule U-71.

                  Attorneys and employees of Troutman Sanders LLP

         3. Registered holding companies and subsidiary companies by which the
undersigned is regularly employed or retained.

                  The Southern Company and its subsidiary companies

         4. Position or relationship in which the undersigned is employed or
retained by each of the companies named in item 3, and brief description of
nature of services to be rendered in each such position or relationship.

                  Attorneys and associated personnel - - legal and related
                  services

         5. (a) Compensation received during the current year and estimated to
be received over the next two calendar years by the undersigned or others,
directly or indirectly, for services rendered by the undersigned, from each of
the companies designated in item 3. (Use column (a) as supplementary statement
only.)

                     Salary or other
                      Compensations
               -------------------------------
Name of          received        to be           Person or company from whom
recipient                      received          received or to be received
                  (a)            (b)

See Rider A attached hereto

           (b) Basis for compensation if other than salary. Services rendered

          6. (To be answered in supplementary statement only.) Expenses incurred
by the undersigned or any person named in item 2, above, during the calendar
year in connection with the activities described in item 4, above, and the
source or sources of reimbursement for same.

           (a) Total amount of routine expenses charged to client: $1,758,489.18

           (b) Itemized list of all other expenses: No other expenses

Date January 27, 2006                            Troutman Sanders LLP
                                                By:  DeWitt R. Rogers, Partner






             Rider A to Form U-12(I)-B of Troutman Sanders LLP 5(a)


      Recipient           (a) (1)         (b) (2)        Payor
      ---------           -------         -------        -----

Troutman Sanders LLP  $  3,362,254.30              The Southern Company

                      $ 13,526,654.70              Southern Company Services

                      $ 39,351,651.69              Georgia Power Company

                      $    330,077.08              Alabama Power Company

                      $    696,746.62              Gulf Power Company

                      $    476,348.75              Mississippi Power Company

                      $    689,253.15              Savannah Electric and Power
                                                         Company

                      $  1,815,554.52              Southern Company Gas LLC

                      $  4,486,197.60              Southern Power Company

                      $    867,045.66              Southern Nuclear Operating
                                                         Company

                      $    847,369.44              Southern Company Energy
                                                         Solutions, Inc.

                      $    260,349.46              Southern Management
                                                         Development Inc.

                      $  1,438,655.38              Southern Communications
                                                         Services, Inc.

                      $  1,822,507.20              Southern Telecom, Inc.

                      $    411,824.70              Powercall, Inc.



(1)      Some of these amounts include fees being paid in 2006 for services
         rendered in the reporting period (2003-2005).

(2)      Amounts to be received for services rendered 2006-2008 to the companies
         designated in Item 3 will be agreed upon by such companies and the
         firm.