Form S-3ASR
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 18, 2010

Registration No. 333-          

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

 

 

Oregon   93-0256820

(State or Other Jurisdiction of

Incorporation or Organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

121 SW Salmon Street

Portland, Oregon 97204

(503) 464-8000

(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number,

Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

 

 

J. Jeffrey Dudley, Esq.

Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Compliance Officer

121 SW Salmon Street

Portland, Oregon 97204

(503) 464-8000

(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number,

Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

 

 

Copies to:

Michael P. Rogan, Esq.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

1440 New York Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20005

(202) 371-7000

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after the effective date of this registration statement as determined by the registrant.

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box.  ¨

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box.  x

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ¨

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ¨

If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box.  x

If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box.  ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer   x    Accelerated filer   ¨
Non-accelerated filer   ¨  (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)    Smaller reporting company   ¨

 

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

 

Title of Each Class of

Securities to be Registered

 

Amount

to be
Registered

  Proposed
Maximum
Offering Price
Per Unit
 

Proposed
Maximum
Aggregate

Offering Price

 

Amount of

Registration Fee

Common Stock, no par value

  (1)(2)   (1)(2)   (1)(2)   (3)

First Mortgage Bonds

  (1)(2)   (1)(2)   (1)(2)   (3)
 
 
(1) Not applicable pursuant to Form S-3 General Instruction II(E).
(2) An indeterminate aggregate initial offering price or number of shares of common stock and first mortgage bonds of Portland General Electric Company is being registered as may from time to time be issued at currently indeterminable prices.
(3) In accordance with Rule 456(b) and Rule 457(r), the registrant is deferring payment of all of the registration fee.

 

 

 


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PROSPECTUS

LOGO

Portland General Electric Company

Common Stock

First Mortgage Bonds

 

 

Portland General Electric Company may offer and sell from time to time, in one or more offerings, shares of our common stock and first mortgage bonds.

This prospectus describes some of the general terms that may apply to these securities. The specific terms of any securities to be offered will be described in a supplement to this prospectus. A prospectus supplement may also add, update or change information contained in this prospectus. You should read this prospectus and the applicable prospectus supplement carefully before you make your investment decision.

This prospectus may not be used to sell securities unless accompanied by a prospectus supplement.

We may offer and sell these securities through one or more underwriters, dealers and agents, underwriting syndicates managed or co-managed by one or more underwriters, or directly to purchasers, on a continuous or delayed basis.

The prospectus supplement for each offering of securities will describe the plan of distribution for that offering. Our common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the trading symbol “POR.” The prospectus supplement will indicate if the securities offered thereby will be listed on any securities exchange.

Our principal executive offices are located at 121 SW Salmon Street, Portland, Oregon 97204. Our telephone number is (503) 464-8000.

Investing in our securities involves risks. See “Risk Factors” on page 1 before you make your investment decision.

 

 

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus or the accompanying prospectus supplement is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 

 

The date of this prospectus is November 18, 2010.


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You should rely only on the information incorporated by reference or provided in this prospectus. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with different information. You should not assume that the information provided in this prospectus, any prospectus supplement, the documents incorporated by reference or any other offering material is accurate as of any date other than the date on the front of those documents, as applicable.

 

 

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PROSPECTUS

 

ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS

     1   

RISK FACTORS

     1   

INFORMATION REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

     2   

PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

     4   

USE OF PROCEEDS

     4   

RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES

     4   

DESCRIPTION OF COMMON STOCK

     5   

DESCRIPTION OF FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS

     8   

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

     14   

INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

     14   

LEGAL MATTERS

     15   

EXPERTS

     15   

 

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ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS

This prospectus is part of a registration statement that we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, utilizing a “shelf” registration process. Under this shelf process, we may, from time to time, sell common stock and first mortgage bonds as described in this prospectus, in one or more offerings.

This prospectus may not be used to sell securities unless accompanied by a prospectus supplement. This prospectus provides you with a general description of the common stock and first mortgage bonds that we may offer. Each time we sell common stock or first mortgage bonds, we will provide a prospectus supplement that will contain specific information about the terms of that offering, including the specific amounts, prices and terms of the common stock or first mortgage bonds offered. The prospectus supplements may also add, update or change information contained in this prospectus. You should read both this prospectus and any prospectus supplement and any other offering material prepared by or on behalf of us for a specific offering of securities, together with the additional information described under the heading “Where You Can Find More Information” and “Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference.”

This prospectus and any accompanying prospectus supplement do not contain all of the information included in the registration statement as permitted by the rules and regulations of the SEC. For further information, we refer you to the registration statement on Form S-3, including its exhibits. We are subject to the informational requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and, therefore, file reports and other information with the SEC. Our file number with the SEC is 1-5532-99. Statements contained in this prospectus and any accompanying prospectus supplement or other offering material about the provisions or contents of any agreement or other document are only summaries. If SEC rules require that any agreement or document be filed as an exhibit to the registration statement, you should refer to that agreement or document for its complete contents.

Unless otherwise stated or the context otherwise requires, references in this prospectus to “PGE,” “we,” “our” or “us” refer to Portland General Electric Company and its subsidiaries.

You should rely only on the information contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with different information. If anyone provides you with different or inconsistent information, you should not rely on it. We are not making an offer to sell these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.

You should not assume that the information provided in this prospectus, any prospectus supplement or any other offering material is accurate as of any date other than the date on the front of those documents, as applicable. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed since that date.

RISK FACTORS

You should consider the specific risks described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009, the risk factors described under the caption “Risk Factors” in any applicable prospectus supplement and any risk factors set forth in our other filings with the SEC, pursuant to Sections 13(a), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, before making an investment decision. Each of the risks described in these documents could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects, and could result in a partial or complete loss of your investment. See “Where You Can Find More Information” in this prospectus. You should also carefully review the cautionary statement in this prospectus referred to below under “Information Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.”

 

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INFORMATION REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Some of the statements included in this prospectus and the other public filings incorporated by reference herein constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements are statements of expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, assumptions or future events or performance. Words or phrases such as “anticipates,” “believes,” “should,” “estimates,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “predicts,” “projects,” “will likely result,” “will continue,” or similar expressions identify forward-looking statements.

Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those expressed. Our expectations, beliefs and projections are expressed in good faith and are believed by us to have a reasonable basis including, without limitation, management’s examination of historical operating trends, data contained in records and other data available from third parties, but there can be no assurance that our expectations, beliefs or projections will be achieved or accomplished.

In addition to other factors and matters discussed elsewhere in this prospectus or incorporated by reference, some important factors that could cause our actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those discussed in forward-looking statements include:

 

   

governmental policies and regulatory audits, investigations, and actions, including those of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, and the Public Utility Commission of Oregon with respect to allowed rates of return, financings, electricity pricing and price structures, acquisition and disposal of assets and facilities, operation and construction of plant facilities, transmission of electricity, recovery of power costs and capital investments, and current or prospective wholesale and retail competition;

 

   

the outcome of legal and regulatory proceedings and issues including, but not limited to, those described in the reports filed by us with the SEC;

 

   

unseasonable or extreme weather and other natural phenomena, which in addition to affecting customers’ demand for power, could significantly affect our ability and cost to procure adequate supplies of fuel or power to serve our customers, and could increase our costs to maintain our generating facilities and transmission and distribution systems;

 

   

operational factors affecting our power generation facilities, including forced outages, hydro conditions, wind conditions, and disruption of fuel supply, which may cause us to incur replacement power costs or repair costs;

 

   

the continuing effects of weak economies in the state of Oregon and the United States, including decreased demand for electricity and reduced revenue from sales of excess energy during periods of low wholesale market prices, impaired financial soundness of vendors and service providers or elevated levels of uncollectible customer accounts;

 

   

declines in wholesale power and natural gas prices, which would require the company to issue additional letters of credit or post additional cash as collateral with counterparties pursuant to existing purchased power and natural gas agreements;

 

   

capital market conditions, including access to capital, interest rate volatility, reductions in demand for investment-grade commercial paper and the availability and cost of capital, as well as changes in our credit ratings, which could have an impact on our cost of capital and our ability to access the capital markets to support requirements for working capital, construction costs, and the repayments of maturing debt;

 

   

future laws, regulations, and proceedings that could increase the company’s costs or affect the operations of the company’s thermal generating plants by imposing requirements for additional pollution control equipment or significant emissions fees or taxes, particularly with respect to coal-fired generation facilities, in order to mitigate carbon dioxide, mercury, and other gas emissions;

 

   

wholesale prices for natural gas, coal, oil, and other fuels and their impact on the availability and price of wholesale power in the western United States;

 

   

changes in residential, commercial, and industrial growth and demographic patterns in our service territory;

 

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the effectiveness of our risk management policies and procedures and the creditworthiness of customers and counterparties;

 

   

the failure to complete capital projects on schedule and within budget;

 

   

the effects of Oregon law related to utility rate treatment of income taxes, which may result in earnings volatility and affect our results of operation;

 

   

the outcome of efforts to relicense our hydroelectric projects, as required by the FERC;

 

   

declines in the market prices of equity securities held by, and increased funding requirements for, defined benefit pension plans and other benefit plans;

 

   

changes in, and compliance with, environmental and endangered species laws and policies;

 

   

the effects of climate change, including changes in the environment that may affect energy costs or consumption, increase our costs, or adversely affect our operations;

 

   

new federal, state, and local laws that could have adverse effects on operating results;

 

   

employee workforce factors, including aging, potential strikes, work stoppages, and transitions in senior management;

 

   

general political, economic, and financial market conditions;

 

   

natural disasters and other natural risks, such as earthquake, flood, drought, lightning, wind, and fire;

 

   

financial or regulatory accounting principles or policies imposed by governing bodies; and

 

   

acts of war or terrorism.

Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which such statement is made, and, except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. New factors emerge from time to time and it is not possible for management to predict all such factors, nor can it assess the impact of any such factor on the business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement.

 

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PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

Portland General Electric Company, incorporated in the State of Oregon in 1930, is a single, vertically integrated electric utility engaged in the generation, purchase, transmission, distribution and retail sale of electricity in the State of Oregon. Our service area is located entirely within Oregon and includes 52 incorporated cities, of which Portland and Salem are the largest, within a state-approved service area allocation of approximately 4,000 square miles. We estimate that at the end of 2009 our service area population was approximately 1.7 million, comprising about 43% of the state’s population. As of September 30, 2010, we served approximately 822,407 retail customer accounts. Additionally, as part of our regulated business we participate in the western wholesale marketplace selling electricity and natural gas to utilities and energy marketers in order to balance our supply of power to meet the needs of retail customers. We operate as a single segment, with revenues and costs related to our business activities maintained and analyzed on a total electric operations basis.

Our principal executive offices are located at 121 SW Salmon Street, Portland, Oregon 97204. Our telephone number is (503) 464-8000. Our web site is www.portlandgeneral.com. Information contained on our web site does not constitute a part of this prospectus.

USE OF PROCEEDS

Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, we intend to use the net proceeds of any securities sold for general corporate purposes.

RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES

The following table sets forth our ratio of earnings to fixed charges for the periods indicated:

 

     Nine Months Ended
September 30,
     Years Ended December 31,  
      2010      2009      2008      2007      2006      2005  
     (Thousands of Dollars)  

Income From Continuing Operations Before Income Taxes

     139,741         131,636         121,825         220,123         107,240         105,759   

Fixed Charges From Below

     100,300         129,948         111,589         98,682         91,846         85,330   
                                                     

Total Earnings

     240,041         261,584         233,414         318,805         199,086         191,089   
                                                     

Fixed Charges:

                 

Interest Expense

     82,148         103,389         90,257         74,362         68,932         68,359   

Capitalized Interest

     8,110         11,816         6,184         9,596         8,482         3,717   

Interest On Certain Long-Term Power Contracts

     6,501         10,038         10,010         9,552         9,927         8,634   

Estimated Interest Factor In Rental Expense

     3,541         4,705         5,138         5,172         4,505         4,620   
                                                     

Total Fixed Charges

     100,300         129,948         111,589         98,682         91,846         85,330   
                                                     

Ratio Of Earnings To Fixed Charges

     2.39         2.01         2.09         3.23         2.17         2.24   

 

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DESCRIPTION OF COMMON STOCK

The following description of our common stock is a summary and is subject to our Second Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation (“Articles of Incorporation”) and our Seventh Amended and Restated Bylaws (“Bylaws”) and to the applicable provisions of Oregon corporate law. You should refer to our Articles of Incorporation and our Bylaws and to Oregon corporate law for a complete understanding of the terms and rights of our common stock.

General

Our Articles of Incorporation provide that we have authority to issue up to 160,000,000 shares of common stock, no par value. Our common stock is listed and traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “POR.” The transfer agent and registrar for our common stock is American Stock Transfer & Trust Company.

Voting Rights

Except as otherwise provided by law or our Articles of Incorporation, and subject to the rights of holders of any outstanding shares of our preferred stock, all of the voting power of our shareholders is vested in the holders of our common stock, and each holder of common stock has one vote for each share on all matters voted upon by our shareholders. Our Articles of Incorporation do not provide for cumulative voting for the election of directors.

Dividend Rights

Except as otherwise provided by law, regulatory restriction or the Articles of Incorporation, and subject to the rights of holders of any outstanding shares of our preferred stock, holders of our common stock shall be entitled to receive dividends when and as declared by the Board of Directors out of any funds legally available for the payment of dividends.

Other Rights

Holders of our common stock do not have any preemptive or other rights to subscribe for, purchase or receive any proportionate or other amount of our common stock or any securities of the company convertible into our common stock upon the issuance of our common stock or any such convertible securities. There are also no redemption or sinking fund provisions applicable to our common stock.

Liquidation Rights

If we were voluntarily or involuntarily liquidated, dissolved or wound up, the holders of our outstanding shares of common stock would be entitled to share in the distribution of all assets remaining after payment of all of our liabilities and after satisfaction of prior distribution rights and payment of any distributions owing to holders of any outstanding shares of our preferred stock.

Liability for Calls and Assessments

The outstanding shares of our common stock are validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

Shareholder Action

Except as required by law, a majority of the shares of our common stock entitled to be voted at a meeting constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business at a meeting. Each matter, other than the election of directors, is decided by a majority of votes cast. Directors are elected annually by a plurality of votes cast by the shares entitled to vote in an election at a meeting at which a quorum is present. Special meetings of our shareholders may be called by our Chairman of the Board, our Chief Executive Officer, our President or by our Board of Directors.

Except as otherwise provided by law or in our Articles of Incorporation, and subject to restrictions on the taking of shareholder action without a meeting under applicable law or the rules of a national securities association or exchange, action required or permitted by law to be taken at a shareholders’ meeting may be taken without a meeting if the action is taken by shareholders having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be required to take such action at a meeting at which all shareholders entitled to vote on the action were present and voted.

 

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Vacancies and Removal of Directors

Any vacancy, including a vacancy resulting from an increase in the number of directors, occurring on our Board of Directors may be filled by our shareholders, the Board of Directors or the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors if less than a quorum of the Board of Directors or by a sole remaining director. Shareholders may remove one or more directors with or without cause at a meeting called expressly for that purpose.

Provisions with Possible Anti-Takeover Effects

An Oregon company may provide in its articles of incorporation or bylaws that certain control share and business combination provisions in the Oregon Business Corporation Act do not apply to its shares. We have not opted-out of these provisions.

Oregon Control Share Act. We are subject to Sections 60.801 through 60.816 of the Oregon Business Corporation Act, known as the “Oregon Control Share Act.” The Oregon Control Share Act generally provides that a person who acquires voting stock of an Oregon corporation, in a transaction that results in the acquiror holding more than 20%, 33 1/3% or 50% of the total voting power of the corporation, cannot vote the shares it acquires in the acquisition. An acquiror is broadly defined to include companies or persons acting as a group to acquire the shares of the Oregon corporation. This restriction does not apply if voting rights are given to the control shares by:

 

   

a majority of the outstanding voting shares, including shares held by the company’s officers and employee directors; and

 

   

a majority of the outstanding voting shares, excluding the control shares held by the acquiror and shares held by the company’s officers and employee directors.

In order to retain the voting rights attached to acquired shares, this vote would be required when an acquiror’s holdings exceed 20% of the total voting power, and again at the time the acquiror’s holdings exceed 33 1/3% and 50%, respectively.

The acquiror may, but is not required to, submit to the target company an “acquiring person statement” including specific information about the acquiror and its plans for the company. The acquiring person statement may also request that the company call a special meeting of shareholders to determine whether the control shares will be allowed to have voting rights. If the acquiror does not request a special meeting of shareholders, the issue of voting rights of control shares will be considered at the next annual or special meeting of shareholders that is held more than 60 days after the date of the acquisition of control shares. If the acquiror’s control shares are allowed to have voting rights and represent a majority or more of all voting power, shareholders who do not vote in favor of voting rights for the control shares will have the right to receive the appraised fair value of their shares, which may not be less than the highest price paid per share by the acquiror for the control shares.

Shares are not deemed to be acquired in a control share acquisition if, among other things, they are acquired from the issuing corporation, or are issued pursuant to a plan of merger or exchange effected in compliance with the Oregon Business Corporation Act and the issuing corporation is a party to the merger or exchange agreement.

Oregon Business Combination Act. We are also subject to Sections 60.825 through 60.845 of the Oregon Business Corporation Act, known as the “Oregon Business Combination Act.” The Oregon Business Combination Act governs business combinations between Oregon corporations and a person or entity that acquires 15% or more of the outstanding voting stock of the corporation, thereby becoming an “interested shareholder.” The Oregon Business Combination Act generally provides that the corporation and the interested shareholder, or any affiliated entity of the interested shareholder, may not engage in business combination transactions for three years following the date the person acquired the shares. Business combination transactions for this purpose include:

 

   

a merger or plan of exchange;

 

   

any sale, lease, mortgage or other disposition of the assets of the corporation where the assets have an aggregate market value equal to 10% or more of the aggregate market value of the corporation’s assets or outstanding capital stock; and

 

   

transactions that result in the issuance or transfer of capital stock of the corporation to the interested shareholder.

These business combination restrictions do not apply if:

 

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the board of directors approves the business combination or the transaction that resulted in the shareholder acquiring the shares before the acquiring shareholder acquires 15% or more of the corporation’s voting stock;

 

   

as a result of the transaction in which the person acquired the shares, the acquiring shareholder became an interested shareholder and owner of at least 85% of the outstanding voting stock of the corporation, disregarding shares owned by employee directors and shares owned by certain employee benefits plans; or

 

   

the board of directors and the holders of at least two-thirds of the outstanding voting stock of the corporation at an annual or special meeting of shareholders, disregarding shares owned by the interested shareholder, approve the business combination after the acquiring shareholder acquires 15% or more of the corporation’s voting stock.

 

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DESCRIPTION OF FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS

We will issue the first mortgage bonds under our Indenture of Mortgage and Deed of Trust dated July 1, 1945, between us and HSBC Bank USA, National Association (formerly The Marine Midland Trust Company of New York), as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented and amended. The original mortgage, as so supplemented and amended, is referred to as the “Mortgage.” The first mortgage bonds that we may issue under the Mortgage are referred to as the bonds.

The following summary of material provisions of the Mortgage is not complete and may not contain all of the information that is important to you. This summary is subject to, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to, all of the provisions of the Mortgage, including the defined terms contained therein. We have filed the original mortgage, certain of the supplemental indentures amending the mortgage and the form of a new supplemental indenture for the issuance of new bonds (referred to in this prospectus as the supplemental indenture) as exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part. You should read the Mortgage and the form of new supplemental indenture because those documents, and not this description, define your rights as a holder of the bonds. The Mortgage has been qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, and you should also refer to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 for provisions that apply to the bonds.

Secured Obligations

The bonds, when issued, will be our senior secured obligations and will be secured equally and ratably with all of our other first mortgage bonds now outstanding or hereafter issued under the Mortgage, by a first lien on substantially all of our now owned or hereafter acquired tangible utility property (except cash, securities, accounts receivable, motor vehicles, materials and supplies, fuel, certain minerals and mineral rights, property located outside of the states of Oregon, Washington, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and Alaska, and certain other property specified in the Mortgage), subject, however, to certain permitted encumbrances and various exceptions, reservations, limitations, and minor irregularities and deficiencies in title which will not interfere with the proper operation and development of the mortgaged property. We refer to this collateral security as “bondable public utility property.”

The term “permitted encumbrances” means as of any particular time any of the following:

 

   

liens for taxes, assessments, or governmental charges for the then current year and taxes, assessments, or governmental charges not then delinquent; and liens for taxes, assessments, or governmental charges already delinquent, but whose validity is being contested at the time by us in good faith by appropriate proceedings;

 

   

liens and charges incidental to construction or current operation which have not at such time been filed or asserted or the payment of which has been adequately secured or which, in the opinion of counsel, are insignificant in amount;

 

   

liens, securing obligations neither assumed by us nor on account of which we customarily pay interest directly or indirectly, existing, either at July 1, 1945, or as to property thereafter acquired, at the time of acquisition by us, upon real estate or rights in or relating to real estate acquired by us for substation, measuring station, regulating station, or transmission, distribution, or other right-of-way purposes;

 

   

any right which any municipal or governmental body or agency may have by virtue of any franchise, license, contract, or statute to purchase, or designate a purchaser of, or order the sale of, any of our property upon payment of reasonable compensation therefor or to terminate any franchise, license, or other rights or to regulate our property and business;

 

   

the lien of judgments covered by insurance or if not so covered, not exceeding at any one time $100,000 in aggregate amount;

 

   

easements or reservations in respect of any of our property for the purpose of rights-of-way and similar purposes, reservations, restrictions, covenants, party wall agreements, conditions of record, and other encumbrances (other than to secure the payment of money) and minor irregularities or deficiencies in the record evidence of title, which in the opinion of counsel (at the time of the acquisition of the property affected or subsequently) will not interfere with the proper operation and development of the property affected thereby;

 

   

any lien or encumbrance, moneys sufficient for the discharge of which have been deposited in trust with the Trustee or with the trustee or mortgagee under the instrument evidencing such lien or encumbrance, with irrevocable authority to the Trustee or to such other trustee or mortgagee to apply such moneys to the discharge of such lien or encumbrance to the extent required for such purposes; and

 

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the lien reserved for rent and for compliance with the terms of the lease in the case of leasehold estates.

The Mortgage permits the acquisition of property subject to prior liens. However, no property subject to prior liens (other than purchase money liens) may be acquired (i) if at the date the property is acquired, the principal amount of indebtedness secured by prior liens, together with all of our other prior lien indebtedness, is greater than 10% of the aggregate principal amount of debt securities outstanding under the Mortgage, (ii) if at the date the property is acquired, the principal amount of indebtedness secured by prior liens is greater than 60% of the cost of such property to us, or (iii) in certain cases if the property had been used by another entity in a business similar to ours, unless the net earnings of such property meet certain tests.

We have covenanted, among other things,

 

   

to not issue debt securities under the Mortgage in any manner other than in accordance with the Mortgage;

 

   

except as permitted by the Mortgage, to keep the Mortgage a first priority lien on the property subject to it;

 

   

except as permitted by the Mortgage, to not suffer any act or thing whereby all of the properties subject to it might or could be impaired; and

 

   

in the event that we are no longer required to file reports with the SEC, and so long as the bonds are outstanding, to furnish to the Trustee the financial and other information that would be required to be contained in the reports filed with the SEC on Forms 10-Q, 10-K, and 8-K if we were required to file such reports.

Redemption and Purchase of Bonds

A prospectus supplement will disclose any provisions for the redemption or purchase of any particular series of bonds. Cash deposited under any provision of the Mortgage (with certain exceptions) may be applied to the purchase of the bonds.

Sinking Fund Provisions

We may establish a sinking fund for the benefit of a particular series of bonds. If a sinking fund is established we will be required to deposit with the trustee at certain specified times sufficient cash to redeem a percentage of or the whole series. The prospectus supplement with respect to that series will state the price or prices at which, and the terms and conditions upon which, the bonds will be redeemed. The prospectus supplement will also set forth the percentage of securities of the series to be redeemed.

Replacement Fund

If the amount of the minimum provision for depreciation upon bondable public utility property (as defined above) exceeds the balance of property additions credits available in any year, we will pay the excess to the Trustee on May 1 of the following year by either payments in cash or by delivery of first mortgage bonds. The balance of property additions available for credit is the net of the aggregate property additions acquired or constructed by us from March 31, 1945, to the end of the calendar year for which the payment is due, less property additions that (i) have been previously made the basis for action or credit under the Mortgage or (ii) have been used as a credit on all previous replacement fund certificates. We may, at our election, credit against any deficiency in the replacement fund amount (i) available retirements of first mortgage bonds, (ii) certain expenditures on bondable public utility property subject to prior lien, and (iii) certain retirements of prior lien indebtedness. If those credits at any time exceed the replacement fund requirement, we may withdraw cash or first mortgage bonds held by the Trustee in the replacement fund. We may also reinstate available retirements of first mortgage bonds that we previously took as credit against any replacement fund requirement. Cash deposited in the replacement fund may, at our option, be applied to the redemption or purchase of bonds or, in certain circumstances, to the redemption or purchase of other first mortgage bonds. The redemptions of the bonds would be at the then applicable regular redemption prices.

Minimum Provision for Depreciation

Under the Mortgage, there is a “minimum provision for depreciation” of bondable public utility property. The aggregate amount of the minimum provision for depreciation of bondable public utility property for any period after March 31, 1945, is $35,023,487.50 plus an amount for each calendar year or fraction of a year after December 31, 1966, equal to the greater of (i) 2% of depreciable bondable public utility property, as shown by our books as of January 1 of that year, as to which we were required to make appropriations to a reserve for depreciation or obsolescence or (ii) the amount we actually appropriated in respect of the depreciable bondable public utility property to a reserve for depreciation or obsolescence, in

 

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either case less an amount equal to the aggregate of (a) the amount of any property additions which we made as the basis for a sinking fund credit during the calendar year, and (b) 166 2/3% of the principal amount of any first mortgage bonds of any series which we credited against any sinking fund payment or which we redeemed in anticipation of, or out of moneys paid to the Trustee on account of, any sinking fund payment due during the calendar year. The property additions and first mortgage bonds referred to in (a) and (b) above become disqualified from being made the basis of the authentication and delivery of first mortgage bonds or any other further action or credit under the Mortgage. In addition, the minimum provision for depreciation shall also include (1) the amount of any property additions referred to in (a) above which after December 31, 1966, were made the basis for a sinking fund credit pursuant to the provisions of a sinking fund for first mortgage bonds of any series, and thereafter became “available additions” as a result of the fact that all first mortgage bonds of such series ceased to be outstanding, and (2) 166 2/3% of the principal amount of first mortgage bonds referred to in (b) above, which after December 31, 1966, were credited against any sinking fund payment, or were redeemed in anticipation of, or out of moneys paid to the Trustee on account of, any sinking fund payment for first mortgage bonds of any series, and thereafter became available retirements of first mortgage bonds as a result of the fact that all first mortgage bonds of such series ceased to be outstanding.

Issuance of Additional Bonds

Subject to the issuance restrictions described below, we may issue an unlimited amount of first mortgage bonds under the Mortgage. First mortgage bonds may be issued from time to time on the basis of, and in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding, the following: (i) 60% of the amount of available additions; (ii) an amount of cash deposited with the Trustee; and/or (iii) the aggregate principal amount of available retirements of first mortgage bonds.

With certain exceptions in the case of (iii) above, the issuance of first mortgage bonds is subject to the amount of net earnings available for interest for 12 consecutive months within the preceding 15 months being at least twice the annual interest requirements on all first mortgage bonds to be outstanding and all prior lien indebtedness. Cash deposited with the Trustee pursuant to (ii) above may be (a) withdrawn in an amount equal to 60% of available additions, (b) withdrawn in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of available retirements of first mortgage bonds, or (c) applied to the purchase or redemption of first mortgage bonds.

Available additions are determined, at any time, by deducting from the aggregate amount of property additions since March 31, 1945, (i) the greater of the aggregate amount of retirements of bondable public utility property not subject to a prior lien, or the aggregate amount of the minimum provision for depreciation upon bondable public utility property not subject to a prior lien since March 31, 1945, and (ii) the aggregate amount of available additions theretofore made the basis for action or credit under the Mortgage. Property additions taken as a credit against the replacement fund requirement are not deemed to be “made the basis for action or credit.”

Dividend Restrictions

So long as any of the bonds, or any of the first mortgage bonds authenticated under the Mortgage are outstanding, we will be subject to the following restrictions:

 

   

we may not pay or declare dividends (other than stock dividends) or other distributions on our common stock, and

 

   

we may not purchase any shares of our capital stock (other than in exchange for or from the proceeds of other shares of our capital stock),

in either case if the aggregate amount distributed or expended after December 31, 1944, would exceed the aggregate amount of our net income, as adjusted, available for dividends on our common stock accumulated after December 31, 1944.

Release and Substitution of Property

Property subject to the lien of the Mortgage may (subject to certain exceptions and limitations) be released only upon the substitution of cash, purchase money obligations, or certain other property or upon the basis of available additions or available retirements of bonds.

Subject to the terms and conditions contained in the Mortgage, we:

 

   

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or unnecessary for use in the conduct of our business; upon replacing or modifying such property, such replacement or modified property shall without further action become subject to the lien of the Mortgage;

 

   

may, at any time, sell, exchange, or dispose of any property (except cash, securities, or other personal property pledged or deposited with or required to be pledged or deposited with the Trustee), and the Trustee shall release such property from the operation and lien of the Mortgage upon receipt by the Trustee of certain documents and, subject to certain exceptions, cash in an amount equal to the fair value of such property;

 

   

shall, in the event any property is taken by the exercise of the power of eminent domain or otherwise purchased or ordered to be sold by any governmental body, deposit with the Trustee the award for or proceeds of any property so taken, purchased or sold, and such property shall be released from the lien of the Mortgage;

 

   

may, at any time, without the consent of the Trustee, sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of any property (except cash, securities, or other personal property pledged or deposited with or required to be pledged or deposited with the Trustee) subject to the lien of the Mortgage which is no longer used or useful in the conduct of our business, provided the fair values of the property so sold, exchanged, or otherwise disposed of in any one calendar year shall not exceed $50,000 and cash in an amount equal to the fair value of the property is deposited with the Trustee; and

 

   

may, in lieu of depositing cash with the Trustee as required above, deliver to the Trustee purchase money obligations secured by a mortgage on the property to be released or disposed of, a certificate of the trustee or other holder of a prior lien on any part of the property to be released stating that a specified amount of cash or purchase money obligations have been deposited with such trustee or other holder, or certain other certificates from us.

Subject to certain conditions specified in the Mortgage, moneys deposited with the Trustee may be:

 

   

withdrawn by us to the extent of available additions and available first mortgage bond retirements;

 

   

withdrawn by us in amount equal to the lower of cost or fair value of property additions acquired or constructed by us; and

 

   

used to purchase or redeem first mortgage bonds of any series.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, proceeds received by the Trustee from a sale or disposition of substantially all of our electric properties at Portland, Oregon, may be applied only to the retirement of first mortgage bonds outstanding under the Mortgage.

Modification of the Mortgage

Under the Mortgage, our rights and obligations and the rights of the holders of the bonds may be modified with the consent of the holders of 75% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding first mortgage bonds, including the consent of holders of 60% in aggregate principal amount of the first mortgage bonds of each series affected by the modification. No modification of the principal or interest payment terms, no modification permitting the creation of any lien not otherwise permitted under the Mortgage, and no modification reducing the percentage required for modifications, will be effective without the consent of the holders of all first mortgage bonds then outstanding. The Mortgage may also be modified in various other respects not inconsistent with the Mortgage and which do not adversely affect the interests of the holders of bonds.

Consolidation, Merger, and Conveyance of Assets

The terms of the Mortgage do not preclude us from merging or consolidating with, or from transferring all of the trust estate substantially as an entirety to, a corporation lawfully entitled to acquire and operate our utility assets (a “successor corporation”), provided that the lien and security of the Mortgage and the rights and powers of the Trustee and the holders of the bonds continue unimpaired. Any such merger, consolidation, or transfer, if it involves a successor corporation owning property subject to existing liens, must comply with the requirements of the Mortgage relating to the acquisition of property subject to a prior lien, which requirements are described in the third paragraph under “Secured Obligations” above. At or before the time of any such merger, consolidation, or transfer permitted by the Mortgage, the successor corporation must execute and record a supplemental indenture with the Trustee pursuant to which the successor corporation assumes all of our obligations under the Mortgage and agrees to pay the bonds in accordance with their terms. Thereafter, the successor corporation will have the right to issue additional first mortgage bonds under the Mortgage in accordance with its terms, and all such first mortgage bonds shall have the same legal rank and security as the bonds and the other first mortgage bonds

 

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issued under the Mortgage. Property acquired by the successor corporation after a merger, consolidation, or transfer described above shall not be subject to the lien of the Mortgage unless expressly made a part of the trust estate pursuant to a supplemental indenture.

The Mortgage does not contain any provisions that afford holders of bonds special protection in the event that we consummate a highly leveraged transaction; however, the bonds would continue to be entitled to the benefit of a first priority lien on the property subject to the Mortgage (other than property acquired by us subject to a prior lien) as described above.

Defaults and Notice

Each of the following will constitute a default:

 

   

failure to pay the principal when due;

 

   

failure to pay interest for 60 days after it is due;

 

   

failure to deposit any sinking or replacement fund payment for 60 days after it is due;

 

   

certain events in bankruptcy, insolvency, or reorganization of us; and

 

   

failure to perform any other covenant in the Mortgage that continues for 60 days after being given written notice, including the failure to pay any of our other indebtedness.

The Trustee may withhold notice to the holders of first mortgage bonds of any default (except in payment of principal, interest, or any sinking or purchase fund installment) if it in good faith determines that withholding notice is in the interest of the holders of the first mortgage bonds issued under the Mortgage.

If an event of default occurs and continues, the Trustee or the holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the first mortgage bonds may declare the entire principal and accrued interest due and payable immediately. If this happens, subject to certain conditions, the holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the first mortgage bonds can annul the declaration and its consequences.

No holder of first mortgage bonds may enforce the lien of the Mortgage, unless (i) it has given the Trustee written notice of default, (ii) the holders of 25% of the first mortgage bonds have requested the Trustee to act and have offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity, and (iii) the Trustee has failed to act within 60 days. The holders of a majority in principal amount of the first mortgage bonds may direct the time, method, and place of conducting any proceeding or any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any power conferred upon the Trustee.

Evidence to be Furnished to the Trustee

Compliance with Mortgage provisions is evidenced by the written statements of our officers or persons we selected and paid. In certain cases, opinions of counsel and certificates of an engineer, accountant, appraiser, or other expert (who in some instances must be independent) must be furnished. Various certificates and other papers are required to be filed annually and upon the occurrence of certain events, including an annual certificate with respect to compliance with the terms of the Mortgage and the absence of defaults.

Interest and Payment

The prospectus supplement will set forth:

 

   

the interest rate or rates or the method of determination of the interest rate or rates of the bonds;

 

   

the date or dates on which the interest is payable; and

 

   

the office or agency in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York at which interest will be payable.

Concerning the Trustee

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Mortgage may direct the time, method, and place of conducting any proceeding for exercising any remedy available to the Trustee, subject to certain exceptions. The Mortgage provides that if default occurs (and it is not cured), the Trustee will be required, in the exercise of its power, to use the degree of care of a prudent person in the conduct of such person’s own affairs. Subject to these provisions, the Trustee will be under no obligation to exercise any of its rights or powers under the Mortgage at the request of any holder of securities issued under the Mortgage, unless that holder has offered to the Trustee security and indemnity satisfactory to it against any loss, liability, or expense, and then only to the extent required by the terms of the Mortgage. The Trustee may resign from its duties with respect to the Mortgage at any time or may be removed by us. If the Trustee resigns, is removed, or becomes incapable of acting as Trustee or a vacancy occurs in the office of the Trustee for any reason, a successor Trustee shall be appointed in accordance with the provisions of the Mortgage.

Governing Law

The Mortgage provides that it and any bonds issued thereunder are governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the state of New York, except to the extent the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 otherwise applies.

 

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WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

We file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. Our SEC filings are available to the public from the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov. You may also read and copy any document we file with the SEC at the SEC's public reference room located at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information regarding the public reference room. In addition, our common stock is listed and traded on the New York Stock Exchange. You may also inspect the information we file with the SEC at the offices of the New York Stock Exchange at 20 Broad Street, New York, New York 10005. Information about us, including our SEC filings, is also available through our web site at www.portlandgeneral.com. However, information on our web site is not incorporated into this prospectus or our other SEC filings and is not a part of this prospectus or those filings.

This prospectus is part of a registration statement filed by us with the SEC. The exhibits to our registration statement contain the full text of certain contracts and other important documents we have summarized in this prospectus. Since these summaries may not contain all the information that you may find important in deciding whether to purchase the securities we may offer, you should review the full text of these documents. The registration statement and the exhibits can be obtained from the SEC as indicated above, or from us.

INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

The SEC allows us to "incorporate by reference" the information we file with the SEC. This means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to another filed document. Any information referred to in this way is considered part of this prospectus, except for any information that is modified or superseded by information contained in this prospectus or any other subsequently filed document. Any reports filed by us with the SEC after the date of this prospectus and before the date that the offering of the securities by means of this prospectus is terminated will automatically update and, where applicable, supersede any information contained in this prospectus or incorporated by reference in this prospectus. Accordingly, we incorporate by reference the following documents or information filed with the SEC:

 

   

Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009, which we filed with the SEC on February 25, 2010;

 

   

Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2010, June 30, 2010 and September 30, 2010, which we filed with the SEC on May 4, 2010, August 5, 2010 and October 28, 2010, respectively;

 

   

Current Reports on Form 8-K, which we filed with the SEC on January 8, 2010, February 19, 2010, March 12, 2010, May 17, 2010 and October 8, 2010;

 

   

The description of our common stock contained in Item 1 of our Form 8-A filed with the SEC on March 31, 2006 pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including any amendment filed for the purpose of updating such description; and

 

   

All documents filed by us in accordance with Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, on or after the date of this prospectus and before the termination of an offering under this prospectus, other than documents or information deemed furnished and not filed in accordance with SEC rules.

We will provide to each person, including any beneficial owner, to whom a copy of this prospectus has been delivered, without charge, upon the written or oral request of such person, a copy of any or all of the documents which are incorporated by reference into this prospectus, other than exhibits to such documents, unless such exhibits are specifically incorporated by reference into the information that this prospectus incorporates. You should direct requests for such copies to:

Portland General Electric Company

121 SW Salmon Street

Portland, Oregon 97204

Attention: Tamara Neitzke, Assistant Treasurer

Telephone: (503) 464-7129

 

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LEGAL MATTERS

Unless otherwise specified in a prospectus supplement accompanying this prospectus, J. Jeffrey Dudley, our General Counsel, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, will pass upon certain legal matters for us in connection with the securities offered by this prospectus. As of November 18, 2010, Mr. Dudley owned 3,120 shares of our common stock. Pursuant to various stock and employee benefit plans, Mr. Dudley is eligible to purchase and receive shares of our common stock and to receive options to purchase shares of common stock.

EXPERTS

The consolidated financial statements incorporated by reference in this Prospectus from the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, and the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting, have been audited by Deloitte & Touche LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their reports, which are incorporated herein by reference. Such consolidated financial statements have been so incorporated in reliance upon the reports of such firm given upon their authority as experts in accounting and auditing.

 

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PART II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

 

Item 14. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution.

The following table sets forth the estimated expenses (all of which will be borne by the registrant unless otherwise provided in the applicable prospectus supplement) incurred in connection with the issuance and distribution of the securities being registered, other than underwriting discounts and commissions (if any). All of the amounts shown are estimates, except the SEC registration fee:

 

Securities and Exchange Commission Registration Fee

   $ —  

Trustee and Transfer Agent Fees

     15,000 ** 

Printing and Engraving Fees and Expenses

     10,000 ** 

Accounting Fees and Expenses

     10,000 ** 

Legal Fees and Expenses

     100,000 ** 

Miscellaneous

     15,000 ** 

Total

   $ 150,000 ** 

 

* Deferred in reliance on Rule 456(b) and 457(r).
** As an indeterminate amount of securities is covered by this registration statement, the expenses in connection with the issuance and distribution of the securities are not currently determinable. The amounts shown are estimated expenses payable by us in connection with the filing of this registration statement and one offering of securities hereunder, but do not limit the amount of securities that may be offered.

 

Item 15. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

Section 60.394 of the Oregon Business Corporation Act provides that unless limited by its articles of incorporation, a corporation shall indemnify a director who was wholly successful, on the merits or otherwise, in the defense of any proceeding to which the director was a party because of being a director of the corporation against reasonable expenses incurred by the director in connection with the proceeding. Section 60.407 of the Oregon Business Corporation Act provides that unless limited by its articles of incorporation an officer of the corporation is entitled to the same mandatory indemnification under Section 60.394 as a director. Our Second Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation do not limit the indemnification provided under Section 60.394 or Section 60.407 of the Oregon Business Corporation Act. Article VII of our Articles of Incorporation provides that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, no director of the company shall be personally liable to the company or its shareholders for monetary damages for conduct as a director.

Section 60.391 of the Oregon Business Corporation Act authorizes a corporation to indemnify an individual made a party to a proceeding because the individual is or was a director against liability incurred in the proceeding if: (a) the conduct of the individual was in good faith; (b) the individual reasonably believed that the individual's conduct was in the best interests of the corporation, or at least not opposed to its best interests; and (c) in the case of any criminal proceeding, the individual had no reasonable cause to believe the individual's conduct was unlawful. Indemnification is not permitted under Section 60.391 (i) in connection with a proceeding by or in the right of the corporation in which the director was adjudged liable to the corporation or (ii) in connection with any other proceeding charging improper personal benefit to the director in which the director was adjudged liable on the basis that personal benefit was improperly received by the director. Article VIII of our Articles of Incorporation provides that the company may indemnify to the fullest extent permitted by law any person who is made or threatened to be made a party to, witness in, or otherwise involved in, any action, suit, or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, investigative, or otherwise (including an action, suit, or proceeding by or in the right of the company) by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the company or any of its subsidiaries, or a fiduciary within the meaning of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, with respect to any employee benefit plan of the company or any of our subsidiaries, or serves or served at the request of the company as a director, officer, employee or agent, or as a fiduciary of an employee benefit plan, of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, and Section 6.1 of the company's Seventh Amended and Restated Bylaws provides that the company shall indemnify, to the fullest extent not prohibited by applicable law, each current or former officer or director who is made or threatened to be made a party to an action, suit, or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, investigative, or otherwise (including an action, suit, or proceeding by or in the right of the company) by reason of the fact that the person is or was acting as a director, officer or agent of the company or as a fiduciary within the meaning of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, with respect to any employee benefit plan of the company,

 

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or serves or served at the request of the company as a director, officer, or as a fiduciary of an employee benefit plan, of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise.

In addition, Section 60.411 of the Oregon Business Corporation Act provides that a corporation (i) may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of an individual against liability asserted against or incurred by the individual who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation or who, while a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee or agent of another foreign or domestic corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise and (ii) may purchase and maintain the insurance even if the corporation has no power to indemnify the individual against the same liability under Section 60.391 or Section 60.394.

Section 6.8 of our Bylaws provides that, to the fullest extent permitted by the Oregon Business Corporation Act, the company, upon approval by the Board of Directors, may purchase insurance on behalf of any person required or permitted to be indemnified pursuant to Article VI of the Bylaws.

The company has entered into an agreement with each of its directors and executive officers that requires the company to indemnify such persons against any expense or liability, including judgments, fines, penalties, interest, counsel fees and disbursements, amounts paid or to be paid in settlement, and ERISA excise taxes and penalties, paid or incurred in connection with investigating, defending, being a witness in, or participating in, or preparing for any of the foregoing in, any proceeding relating to any event or occurrence by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the company, or is or was serving at the request of the company in certain capacities. The indemnification agreements also set forth certain procedures that will apply in the event of a claim for indemnification thereunder.

The company has procured directors' and officers' liability insurance. The coverage provided by these policies indemnifies the company to protect it against liability assumed or incurred under the above indemnification provisions, including defense provisions, on behalf of the directors and officers against loss arising from any civil claim or claims by reason of any wrongful act done or alleged to have been done while acting in their respective capacities as directors or officers. The policies also provide direct coverage to the directors and officers against certain liabilities, including liabilities arising under the Securities Act, which might be incurred by them in such capacities and against which they cannot be indemnified by the company. The policies exclude claims brought about or contributed to by dishonest, fraudulent, criminal or malicious acts or omissions by directors or officers.

In connection with an offering of the securities registered hereunder, the registrant may enter into an underwriting agreement which may provide that the underwriters are obligated, under certain circumstances, to indemnify directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933.

Please also see the undertakings set out in response to Item 17 herein.

 

Item 16. Exhibits.

The Exhibits to this registration statement are listed in the Exhibit Index on page II-6.

 

Item 17. Undertakings.

(a) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

(i) To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective registration statement; and

 

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(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;

provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i), (a)(1)(ii) and (a)(1)(iii) of this section do not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-3 or Form F-3 and the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement, or is contained in a form of prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) that is part of the registration statement.

(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

(4) That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser:

(i) Each prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) shall be deemed to be part of the registration statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in the registration statement; and

(ii) Each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5), or (b)(7) as part of a registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (vii) or (x) for the purpose of providing the information required by section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the earlier of the date such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of securities in the offering described in the prospectus. As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the issuer and any person that is at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a new effective date of the registration statement relating to the securities in the registration statement to which that prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date.

(5) That, for the purpose of determining liability of the registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities, the undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:

(i) Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

(ii) Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant;

(iii) The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and

(iv) Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser.

(b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant's annual report, pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d)

 

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of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Portland, State of Oregon on November 18, 2010.

 

PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
By   /S/    JAMES J. PIRO        
 

James J. Piro

Chief Executive Officer and President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on the 18 day of November, 2010.

 

Signature

  

Title

/S/    JAMES J. PIRO        

James J. Piro

   Chief Executive Officer,
President and Director
(principal executive officer)

/S/    MARIA M. POPE        

Maria M. Pope

   Senior Vice President, Finance,
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
(principal financial and accounting officer)

/S/    JOHN W. BALLANTINE        

* John W. Ballantine

   Director

/S/    RODNEY L. BROWN JR.        

* Rodney L. Brown Jr.

   Director

/S/    DAVID A. DIETZLER        

* David A. Dietzler

   Director

/S/    KIRBY A. DYESS        

* Kirby A. Dyess

   Director

/S/    PEGGY Y. FOWLER        

* Peggy Y. Fowler

   Director

/S/    MARK B. GANZ        

* Mark B. Ganz

   Director

/S/    CORBIN A. MCNEILL JR.        

* Corbin A. McNeill Jr.

   Director

/S/    NEIL J. NELSON        

* Neil J. Nelson

   Director

/S/    M. LEE PELTON        

* M. Lee Pelton

   Director

/S/    ROBERT T.F. REID        

* Robert T.F. Reid

   Director

* By:

 

/S/    JAMES J. PIRO

James J. Piro, Attorney-in-Fact

  

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
No.

  

Description of Exhibits

  1.1    Underwriting Agreement for Common Stock (to be filed by an amendment or as an exhibit to a document filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and incorporated by reference herein)
  1.2    Underwriting Agreement for First Mortgage Bonds (to be filed by an amendment or as an exhibit to a document filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and incorporated by reference herein)
  3.1    Second Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Portland General Electric Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed on August 3, 2009)
  3.2    Seventh Amended and Restated Bylaws of Portland General Electric Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on February 19, 2010)
  4.1    Form of Common Stock Certificate for Portland General Electric Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A, filed on March 31, 2006)
  4.2    Indenture of Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of July 1, 1945, between Portland General Electric Company and HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as successor Trustee (the “Mortgage”) (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form 8, dated June 14, 1965)
  4.3    Fortieth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of October 1, 1990, to the Mortgage (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1990, filed on March 4, 1991)
  4.4    Fifty-Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 1, 2006, to the Mortgage (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on May 25, 2006)
  4.5    Fifty-Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 1, 2006, to the Mortgage (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on December 21, 2006)
  4.6    Fifty-Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 1, 2007, to the Mortgage (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on April 12, 2007)
  4.7    Fifty-Ninth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of October 1, 2007, to the Mortgage (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on October 5, 2007)
  4.8    Sixtieth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 1, 2008, to the Mortgage (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on April 17, 2008)
  4.9    Sixty-First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of January 15, 2009, to the Mortgage (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on January 16, 2009)
  4.10    Sixty-Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 1, 2009, to the Mortgage (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on April 16, 2009)
  4.11    Sixty-Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 1, 2009, to the Mortgage (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on November 4, 2009)
  4.12    Form of Supplemental Indenture (including form of First Mortgage Bond) to be entered into between Portland General Electric Company and HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee, with respect to First Mortgage Bonds*
  5.1    Opinion of J. Jeffrey Dudley, General Counsel of Portland General Electric Company, with respect to the legality of the securities being registered*
  5.2    Opinion of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, with respect to the legality of the securities being registered*

 

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12    Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges*
23.1    Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm*
23.2    Consent of J. Jeffrey Dudley, General Counsel of Portland General Electric Company (included in Exhibit 5.1)*
23.3    Consent of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (included in Exhibit 5.2)*
24    Powers of Attorney*
25    Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee under the Mortgage*

 

* Filed herewith

Certain instruments defining the rights of holders of other long-term debt of the Company are omitted pursuant to Item 601(b)(4)(iii)(A) of Regulation S-K because the total amount of securities authorized under each such omitted instrument does not exceed 10% of the total consolidated assets of the Company and its subsidiaries. The Company hereby agrees to furnish a copy of any such instrument to the SEC upon request.

 

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Form of Supplemental Indenture

EXHIBIT 4.12

 

 

PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

TO

HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

(AS SUCCESSOR TO THE MARINE MIDLAND TRUST

COMPANY OF NEW YORK)

Trustee.

 

Sixty-             Supplemental Indenture

Dated:                      , 20    

 

$             First Mortgage Bonds,

    % Series, due         

Supplemental to Indenture of Mortgage and Deed of Trust,

dated July 1, 1945 of Portland General Electric Company.

THIS INSTRUMENT GRANTS A SECURITY INTEREST BY A TRANSMITTING UTILITY

THIS INSTRUMENT CONTAINS AFTER-ACQUIRED PROPERTY PROVISIONS

 

 


This SIXTY-             SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (hereinafter this “Supplemental Indenture”), dated                      , 20    , is made by and between Portland General Electric Company, an Oregon corporation (hereinafter called the “Company”), and HSBC Bank USA, National Association (as successor to The Marine Midland Trust Company of New York), a national banking association, as Trustee (hereinafter called the “Trustee”).

WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered its Indenture of Mortgage and Deed of Trust (herein sometimes referred to as the “Original Indenture”), dated July 1, 1945, to the Trustee to secure an issue of First Mortgage Bonds of the Company; and

WHEREAS, bonds in the aggregate principal amount of $34,000,000 have heretofore been issued under and in accordance with the terms of the Original Indenture as bonds of an initial series designated “First Mortgage Bonds, 3-1/8% Series due 1975” (herein sometimes referred to as the “Bonds of the 1975 Series”); and

WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee several supplemental indentures which provided, among other things, for the creation or issuance of several new series of First Mortgage Bonds under the terms of the Original Indenture as follows:

 

Supplemental
Indenture

    

Dated

    

Series Designation

   Principal
Amount
 

First

     11-1-47      3-1/2% Series due 1977    $ 6,000,000  (1) 

Second

     11-1-48      3-1/2% Series due 1977      4,000,000  (1) 

Third

     5-1-52      3-1/2% Second Series due 1977      4,000,000  (1) 

Fourth

     11-1-53      4-1/8% Series due 1983      8,000,000  (2) 

Fifth

     11-1-54      3-3/8% Series due 1984      12,000,000  (1) 

Sixth

     9-1-56      4-1/4% Series due 1986      16,000,000  (1) 

Seventh

     6-1-57      4-7/8% Series due 1987      10,000,000  (1) 

Eighth

     12-1-57      5-1/2% Series due 1987      15,000,000  (3) 

Ninth

     6-1-60      5-1/4% Series due 1990      15,000,000  (1) 

Tenth

     11-1-61      5-1/8% Series due 1991      12,000,000  (1) 

Eleventh

     2-1-63      4-5/8% Series due 1993      15,000,000  (1) 

Twelfth

     6-1-63      4-3/4% Series due 1993      18,000,000  (1) 

Thirteenth

     4-1-64      4-3/4% Series due 1994      18,000,000  (1) 

Fourteenth

     3-1-65      4.70% Series due 1995      14,000,000  (1) 

Fifteenth

     6-1-66      5-7/8% Series due 1996      12,000,000  (1) 

Sixteenth

     10-1-67      6.60% Series due October 1, 1997      24,000,000  (1) 

Seventeenth

     4-1-70      8-3/4% Series due April 1, 1977      20,000,000  (1) 

Eighteenth

     11-1-70      9-7/8% Series due November 1, 2000      20,000,000  (4) 

Nineteenth

     11-1-71      8% Series due November 1, 2001      20,000,000  (4) 

Twentieth

     11-1-72      7-3/4% Series due November 1, 2002      20,000,000  (4) 

Twenty-first

     4-1-73      7.95% Series due April 1, 2003      35,000,000  (4) 

Twenty-second

     10-1-73      8-3/4% Series due October 1, 2003      17,000,000  (4) 

Twenty-third

     12-1-74      10-1/2% Series due December 1, 1980      40,000,000  (1) 

Twenty-fourth

     4-1-75      10% Series due April 1, 1982      40,000,000  (1) 

Twenty-fifth

     6-1-75      9-7/8% Series due June 1, 1985      27,000,000  (1) 

 

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Twenty-sixth

     12-1-75      11-5/8% Series due December 1, 2005      50,000,000  (4) 

Twenty-seventh

     4-1-76      9-1/2% Series due April 1, 2006      50,000,000  (4) 

Twenty-eighth

     9-1-76      9-3/4% Series due September 1, 1996      62,500,000  (4) 

Twenty-ninth

     6-1-77      8-3/4% Series due June 1, 2007      50,000,000  (4) 

Thirtieth

     10-1-78      9.40% Series due January 1, 1999      25,000,000  (4) 

Thirty-first

     11-1-78      9.80% Series due November 1, 1998      50,000,000  (4) 

Thirty-second

     2-1-80      13-1/4% Series due February 1, 2000      55,000,000  (4) 

Thirty-third

     8-1-80      13-7/8% Series due August 1, 2010      75,000,000  (4) 

Thirty-sixth

     10-1-82      13-1/2% Series due October 1, 2012      75,000,000  (4) 

Thirty-seventh

     11-15-84      11-5/8% Extendable Series A due November 15, 1999      75,000,000  (4) 

Thirty-eighth

     6-1-85      10-3/4% Series due June 1, 1995      60,000,000  (4) 

Thirty-ninth

     3-1-86      9-5/8% Series due March 1, 2016      100,000,000  (4) 

Fortieth

     10-1-90      Medium Term Note Series      200,000,000   

Forty-first

     12-1-91      Medium Term Note Series I      150,000,000  (1) 

Forty-second

     4-1-93      7-3/4% Series due April 15, 2023      150,000,000  (4) 

Forty-third

     7-1-93      Medium Term Notes Series II      75,000,000  (1) 

Forty-fourth

     8-1-94      Medium Term Notes Series III      75,000,000  (1) 

Forty-fifth

     5-1-95      Medium Term Notes Series IV      75,000,000  (5) 

Forty-sixth

     8-1-96      Medium Term Notes Series V      50,000,000  (1) 

Forty-seventh

     12-14-01      Second Series due 2002      150,000,000  (4) 

Forty-eighth

     6-1-02      Collateral Series due 2003      72,000,000  (1) 

Forty-ninth

     6-1-02      Second Collateral Series due 2003      150,000,000  (1) 

Fiftieth

     10-1-02      8-1/8% Series due 2010      150,000,000  (4) 

Fifty-first

     10-1-02      5.6675% Series due 2012      100,000,000    

Fifty-second

     4-1-03      5.279% Series due 2013      50,000,000  (4) 

Fifty-third

     5-1-03     

Collateral Series A due 2033

Collateral Series B due 2033

Collateral Series C due 2033

     142,400,000    

Fifty-fourth

     5-1-03      Collateral Series due 2004      150,000,000  (1) 

Fifty-fifth

     7-1-03      Medium Term Notes Series VI      200,000,000    

Fifty-sixth

     5-1-06     

6.31% Series due 2036

6.26% Series due 2031

    

 

175,000,000 

100,000,000 

  

  

Fifty-seventh

     12-1-06      5.80% Series due 2039      170,000,000    

Fifty-eighth

     4-1-07      5.81% Series due 2037      130,000,000    

Fifty-ninth

     10-1-07      5.80% Series due 2018      75,000,000    

Sixtieth

     4-1-08      4.45% Second Series due 2013      50,000,000    

Sixty-first

     1-15-09     

6.50% Series due 2014

6.80% Series due 2016

    

 

63,000,000 

67,000,000 

  

  

Sixty-second

     4-1-09      6.10% Series due 2019      300,000,000    

Sixty-third

     11-1-09      5.43% Series due 2040      150,000,000    

Sixty-fourth

     1-15-10      3.46% Series due 2015      70,000,000    

Sixty-fifth

     6-15-10      3.81% Series due 2017      58,000,000    

 

(1) Paid in full at maturity.
(2) This entire issue of Bonds was redeemed out of proceeds from the sale of First Mortgage Bonds, 3-3/8% Series due 1984.
(3) This entire issue of Bonds was redeemed out of proceeds from the sale of First Mortgage Bonds, 4-5/8% Series due 1993.
(4) Redeemed in full prior to maturity.
(5) This entire series of Bonds has been retired.

 

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which bonds are sometimes referred to herein as the “Bonds of the 1977 Series,” “Bonds of the 1977 Second Series,” “Bonds of the 1983 Series,” “Bonds of the 1984 Series,” “Bonds of the 1986 Series,” “Bonds of the 4 7/8% Series due 1987,” “Bonds of the 5 1/2% Series due 1987,” “Bonds of the 1990 Series,” “Bonds of the 1991 Series,” “Bonds of the 4 5/8% Series due 1993,” “Bonds of the 4 3/4% Series due 1993,” “Bonds of the 1994 Series,” “Bonds of the 1995 Series,” “Bonds of the 1996 Series,” “Bonds of the 1997 Series,” “Bonds of the 1977 Third Series,” “Bonds of the 2000 Series,” “Bonds of the 2001 Series,” “Bonds of the 2002 Series,” “Bonds of the 2003 Series,” “Bonds of the 2003 Second Series,” “Bonds of the 1980 Series,” “Bonds of the 1982 Series,” “Bonds of the 1985 Series,” “Bonds of the 2005 Series,” “Bonds of the 2006 Series,” “Bonds of the 1996 Second Series,” “Bonds of the 2007 Series,” “Bonds of the 1999 Series,” “Bonds of the 1998 Series,” “Bonds of the 2000 Second Series,” “Bonds of the 2010 Series,” “Bonds of the 2012 Series,” “Bonds of the Extendable Series A,” “Bonds of the 1995 Second Series,” “Bonds of the 2016 Series,” “Bonds of the Medium Term Note Series,” “Bonds of the Medium Term Note Series I,” “Bonds of the 2023 Series,” “Bonds of the Medium Term Note Series II,” “Bonds of the Medium Term Note Series III,” “Bonds of the Medium Term Note Series IV,” “Bonds of the Medium Term Note Series V,” “Bonds of the 2002 Second Series,” “Bonds of the Collateral Series,” “Bonds of the Second Collateral Series,” “Bonds of the 2010 Second Series,” “Bonds of the 2012 Second Series,” “Bonds of the 2013 Series,” “Bonds of the 2033 Series,” “Bonds of the 2004 Collateral Series,” “Bonds of the Medium Term Note Series VI,” “Bonds of the 2036 Series,” “Bonds of the 2031 Series,” “Bonds of the 2039 Series,” “Bonds of the 2037 Series,” “Bonds of the 2018 Series,” “Bonds of the 2013 Second Series,” “Bonds of the 2014 Series,” “Bonds of the 2016 Second Series,” “Bonds of the 2019 Series,” “Bonds of the 2040 Series,” “Bonds of the 2015 Series,” and “Bonds of the 2017 Series,” respectively; and

WHEREAS, the Original Indenture provides that the Company and the Trustee, subject to the conditions and restrictions in the Original Indenture contained, may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental thereto, which shall thereafter form a part of said Original Indenture, among other things, to mortgage, pledge, convey, transfer, or assign to the Trustee and to subject to the lien of the Original Indenture with the same force and effect as though included in the granting clauses thereof, additional properties acquired by the Company after the execution and delivery of the Original Indenture, and to provide for the creation of any series of bonds (other than the Bonds of the 1975 Series), designating the series to be created and specifying the form and provisions of the bonds of such series as therein provided or permitted, and to provide a sinking, amortization, replacement, or other analogous fund for the benefit of all or any of the bonds of any one or more series, of such character and of such amount, and upon such terms and conditions as shall be contained in such supplemental indenture; and

WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee sixty-             supplemental indentures amending in certain respects the Original Indenture (such Original Indenture as so supplemented and amended is hereinafter referred to as the “Mortgage”); and

WHEREAS, the Company desires to further amend the Mortgage in certain respects pursuant to Section 17.01 of the Original Indenture, and the Trustee has agreed to such amendments; and

 

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WHEREAS, the Company desires to provide for the creation of a new series of bonds to be known as “First Mortgage Bonds,         % Series due 20    ” (sometimes herein referred to as the “Bonds of the 20     Series” or the “Bonds”), and to specify the form and provisions of the Bonds of the 20     Series, and to mortgage, pledge, convey, transfer, or assign to the Trustee and to subject to the lien of the Mortgage certain additional properties acquired by the Company since the execution and delivery of the Original Indenture; and

WHEREAS, the Company intends at this time to provide for the issuance of $                     aggregate principal amount of Bonds of the 20     Series under and in accordance with the terms of the Mortgage and this Supplemental Indenture (the Mortgage as so supplemented and amended by this Supplemental Indenture referred to as the “Indenture”); and

WHEREAS, the Bonds of the 20     Series and the Trustee’s authentication certificate to be executed on the Bonds of the 20     Series are to be substantially in the following form, respectively:

 

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(Form of Bond of the          % Series due 20    )

[Face of Bond]

 

No.                         $                    

PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

FIRST MORTGAGE BOND,         % SERIES DUE 20    

Portland General Electric Company, an Oregon corporation (hereinafter sometimes called the “Company”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to                     , or registered assigns, the principal sum of                      Dollars on                     , 20     (the “Maturity Date”), except to the extent redeemed or repaid prior to the Maturity Date, and to pay interest thereon at the rate of              per cent per annum (calculated on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months) until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest will be paid semi-annually in arrears on                      and                      (each an “Interest Payment Date”) each year from the Interest Payment Date next preceding the date this bond is executed by the Company, or, if the date this bond is executed by the Company is an Interest Payment Date, from such Interest Payment Date, or, if the date this bond is executed by the Company is prior to the Original Issue Date specified above, from the Original Issue Date. If and to the extent the Company shall default in the payment of interest due on an Interest Payment Date, then interest shall be paid from the date to which interest has been paid, provided, however, that if such default shall be in respect of the interest due on the first Interest Payment Date following the Original Issue Date, then interest shall be paid from the Original Issue Date. If the Maturity Date or an Interest Payment Date falls on a day which is not a Business Day, as defined below, principal or interest payable with respect to such Maturity Date or Interest Payment Date will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such Maturity Date or Interest Payment Date, as the case may be. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, subject to certain exceptions, be paid to the person in whose name this bond (or one or more predecessor bonds) is registered at the close of business on the fifteenth day (whether or not a Business Day) next preceding such Interest Payment Date (the “Regular Record Date”); provided, however, that interest payable on the Maturity Date will be payable to the person to whom the principal hereof shall be payable. Should the Company default in the payment of interest (“Defaulted Interest”), the Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the person in whose name this bond (or one or more predecessor bonds) is registered on a subsequent record date fixed by the Company, which subsequent record date shall be fifteen days prior to the payment of such Defaulted Interest. As used herein, “Business Day” means any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, on which banks in The City of New York are not required or authorized by law to close.

Payment of the principal of and interest on this bond will be made in immediately available funds at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. The Trustee, as paying agent of the Company, will make all payments of principal and interest by

 

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wire transfer of immediately available funds; provided, however, that appropriate written wire transfer instructions must have been received by the Trustee not less than sixteen days prior to the applicable Interest Payment Date, Maturity Date, or redemption date; and provided further, however, that if the Original Issue Date is less than sixteen days prior to the First Interest Payment Date, payment of interest on such date will be by wire transfer of immediately available funds, if appropriate written wire transfer instructions have been received by the Trustee on or before the Original Issue Date.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this bond set forth on the reverse hereof, including terms of redemption, and such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.

This bond shall not become or be valid or obligatory for any purpose until the authentication certificate hereon shall have been signed by the Trustee.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY has caused this instrument to be executed manually or in facsimile by its duly authorized officers and has caused a facsimile of its corporate seal to be imprinted hereon.

 

Dated:  

 

 

PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

By:

 

 

Title:

 

Attest:  

 

  Assistant Secretary

 

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(Form of Trustee’s Authentication Certificate for

Bonds of the         % Series due 20    )

This is one of the bonds, of the series designated herein, described in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL

ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE

By:    
  Authorized Officer

 

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[Reverse of Bond]

This bond is one of the bonds of a series designated as First Mortgage Bonds,         % Series due 20     (sometimes herein referred to as the “Bonds of the 20     Series”) limited to a maximum aggregate principal amount of $            . Bonds of the 20     Series are bonds of an authorized issue of bonds of the Company known as First Mortgage Bonds, not limited as to maximum aggregate principal amount, all issued or issuable in one or more series under and equally secured (except insofar as any sinking fund, replacement fund, or other fund established in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture hereinafter mentioned may afford additional security for the bonds of any specific series) by an Indenture of Mortgage and Deed of Trust dated July 1, 1945, duly executed and delivered by the Company to HSBC Bank USA, National Association (as successor to The Marine Midland Trust Company of New York), as Trustee, as supplemented, amended, and modified by sixty-             supplemental indentures and by the Sixty-             Supplemental Indenture (such Indenture of Mortgage and Deed of Trust as so supplemented, amended, and modified by such sixty-             supplemental indentures and the Sixty-             Supplemental Indenture being hereinafter called the “Indenture”), to which Indenture reference is hereby made for a description of the property mortgaged and pledged as security for said bonds, the nature and extent of the security, and the rights, duties, and immunities thereunder of the Trustee, the rights of the holders of said bonds and of the Trustee and of the Company in respect of such security, and the terms upon which said bonds may be issued thereunder. Capitalized terms used herein and not defined herein shall have the respective meanings in the Indenture, unless otherwise noted.

The Bonds of the 20     Series may be redeemed by the Company prior to maturity as a whole, at any time, or in part, from time to time on notice given not more than ninety nor less than thirty days prior to the date of such redemption at the option of the Company at a price equal to the greater of (i) the principal amount of the portion of the Bonds of the 20     Series to be redeemed or (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest (not including any portion of such payments of interest accrued as of the date of redemption) due on the Bonds of the 20     Series (or portion thereof) to be redeemed, discounted to the redemption date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Adjusted Treasury Rate, plus 50 basis points, together in each case with accrued and unpaid interest to the date of redemption.

If this bond or any portion thereof ($             or an integral multiple thereof) is duly called for redemption and payment duly provided for as specified in the Indenture, this bond or such portion thereof shall cease to be entitled to the lien of the Indenture from and after the date payment is so provided for and shall cease to bear interest from and after the date fixed for such redemption.

In the event of the selection for redemption of a portion only of the principal of this bond, payment of the redemption price will be made only upon surrender of this bond in exchange for a bond or bonds (but only of authorized denominations of the same series) for the unredeemed balance of the principal amount of this bond.

 

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The Indenture contains provisions permitting the Company and the Trustee, with the consent of the holders of not less than seventy-five percent in principal amount of the bonds (exclusive of bonds disqualified by reason of the Company’s interest therein) at the time outstanding, including, if more than one series of bonds shall be at the time outstanding, not less than sixty percent in principal amount of each series affected, to effect, by an indenture supplemental to the Indenture, modifications or alterations of the Indenture and of the rights and obligations of the Company and of the holders of the bonds and coupons; provided, however, that no such modification or alteration shall be made without the written approval or consent of all holders hereof which will (i) extend the maturity of this bond or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of interest hereon or reduce the amount of the principal hereof, (ii) permit the creation of any lien, not otherwise permitted, prior to or on a parity with the lien of the Indenture, or (iii) reduce the percentage of the principal amount of the bonds upon the approval or consent of the holders of which modifications or alterations may be made as aforesaid.

The transfer of this bond is registrable by the registered owner hereof in person or by such owner’s attorney duly authorized in writing, at the corporate trust office of the Trustee in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, upon surrender of this bond for cancellation and upon payment of any taxes or other governmental charges payable upon such transfer, and thereupon a new registered bond or bonds of the same series and of a like aggregate principal amount will be issued to the transferee or transferees in exchange therefor.

The Company, the Trustee, and any paying agent may deem and treat the person in whose name this bond is registered as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payments of or on account of the principal hereof and interest due hereon, and for all other purposes, whether or not this bond shall be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee, nor any paying agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.

Bonds of this series are issuable only in fully registered form without coupons in denominations of $             or any amount in excess thereof that is an integral multiple of $            . The registered owner of this bond at its option may surrender the same for cancellation at said office of the Trustee and receive in exchange therefor the same aggregate principal amount of registered bonds of the same series but of other authorized denominations upon payment of any taxes or other governmental charges payable upon such exchange and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture. Bonds may be issued in a denomination of less than $             (but in multiples of at least $            ) if necessary to enable the registration of a transfer by a holder of its entire holding of Bonds, or if necessary for the redemption of Bonds.

If an event of default as defined in the Indenture shall occur, the principal of this bond may become or be declared due and payable before maturity in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. The holders, however, of certain specified percentages of the bonds (exclusive of bonds disqualified by reason of the Company’s interest therein) at the time outstanding, including in certain cases specified percentages of bonds of particular series, may in certain cases, to the extent and as provided in the Indenture, waive certain defaults thereunder and the consequences of such defaults.

 

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No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or the interest on this bond, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof or of the Indenture, against any incorporator, shareholder, director, or officer, past, present, or future, as such, of the Company or of any predecessor or successor corporation, either directly or through the Company or such predecessor or successor corporation, under any constitution or statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty, or otherwise, all such liability of incorporators, shareholders, directors, and officers, as such, being waived and released by the holder and owner hereof by the acceptance of this bond and as provided in the Indenture.

The Indenture provides that this bond shall be deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of said State.

(End of Form of Bond of the         % Series due 20    )

and

WHEREAS, all acts and proceedings required by law and by the charter or articles of incorporation and bylaws of the Company necessary to make the Bonds to be issued hereunder, when executed by the Company, authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, and duly issued, the valid, binding, and legal obligations of the Company, and to constitute this Supplemental Indenture a valid and binding instrument, have been done and taken; and the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture have been in all respects duly authorized;

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH, that, in order to secure the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on all First Mortgage Bonds at any time issued and outstanding under the Original Indenture as supplemented and modified by the sixty-             supplemental indentures hereinbefore described and as supplemented and modified by this Supplemental Indenture, according to their tenor, purport, and effect, and to secure the performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions therein and herein contained, and for the purpose of confirming and perfecting the lien of the Indenture on the properties of the Company hereinafter described, or referred to, and for and in consideration of the premises and of the mutual covenants herein contained, and acceptance of the Bonds by the holders thereof, and for other valuable consideration, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, the Company has executed and delivered this Supplemental Indenture and by these presents does grant, bargain, sell, warrant, alien, convey, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge, hypothecate, set over, and confirm unto the Trustee the following property, rights, privileges, and franchises (in addition to all other property, rights, privileges, and franchises heretofore subjected to the lien of the Original Indenture as supplemented by the sixty-             supplemental indentures hereinbefore described and not heretofore released from the lien thereof, all of which shall secure all bonds, including the Bonds of the 20     Series), to wit:

 

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CLAUSE I

Without in any way limiting anything in the Mortgage or hereinafter described, all and singular the lands, real estate, chattels real, interests in land, leaseholds, ways, rights-of-way, easements, servitudes, permits and licenses, lands under water, riparian rights, franchises, privileges, electric generating plants, electric transmission and distribution systems, and all apparatus and equipment appertaining thereto, offices, buildings, warehouses, garages, and other structures, tracks, machine shops, materials and supplies, and all property of any nature appertaining to any of the plants, systems, business, or operations of the Company, whether or not affixed to the realty, used in the operation of any of the premises or plants or systems or otherwise, which have been acquired by the Company since the execution and delivery of the Original Indenture and not heretofore included in any indenture supplemental thereto, and now owned or which may hereafter be acquired by the Company (other than excepted property as defined in the Mortgage).

CLAUSE II

All corporate, Federal, State, municipal, and other permits, consents, licenses, bridge licenses, bridge rights, river permits, franchises, grants, privileges, and immunities of every kind and description, owned, held, possessed, or enjoyed by the Company (other than excepted property as defined in the Mortgage) and all renewals, extensions, enlargements, and modifications of any of them, which have been acquired by the Company since the execution and the delivery of the Original Indenture and not heretofore included in any indenture supplemental thereto, and now owned or which may hereafter be acquired by the Company.

CLAUSE III

Also all other property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible (other than excepted property as defined in the Mortgage) of every kind, character, and description and wheresoever situated, whether or not useful in the generation, manufacture, production, transportation, distribution, sale, or supplying of electricity, hot water, or steam, which has been acquired by the Company since the execution and delivery of the Original Indenture and not heretofore included in any indenture supplemental thereto, and now owned or which may hereafter be acquired by the Company (other than excepted property as defined in the Mortgage).

CLAUSE IV

Together with all and singular the plants, buildings, improvements, additions, tenements, hereditaments, easements, rights, privileges, licenses, and franchises and all other appurtenances whatsoever belonging or in any wise pertaining to any of the property hereby mortgaged or pledged, or intended so to be, or any part thereof, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, and the rents, revenues, issues, earnings, income, products, and profits thereof, and every part and parcel thereof, and all the estate, right, title, interest, property, claim, and demand of every nature whatsoever of the Company at law, in equity, or otherwise howsoever, in, of, and to such property and every part and parcel thereof (other than excepted property as defined in the Mortgage).

 

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TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all of said property, real, personal, and mixed, and all and singular the lands, properties, estates, rights, franchises, privileges, and appurtenances hereby mortgaged, conveyed, pledged, or assigned, or intended so to be, together with all the appurtenances thereto appertaining and the rents, issues, and profits thereof, unto the Trustee and its successors and assigns, forever:

SUBJECT, HOWEVER, to the exceptions, reservations, restrictions, conditions, limitations, covenants, and matters contained in all deeds and other instruments whereunder the Company has acquired any of the property now owned by it, and to permitted encumbrances as defined in Subsection B of Section 1.11 of the Mortgage;

BUT IN TRUST NEVERTHELESS, for the equal and proportionate use, benefit, security, and protection of those who from time to time shall hold the bonds authenticated and delivered under the Original Indenture and the sixty-             supplemental indentures hereinbefore described or this Supplemental Indenture, and duly issued by the Company, without any discrimination, preference, or priority of any one bond over any other by reason of priority in the time of issue, sale, or negotiation thereof or otherwise, except as provided in Section 11.28 of the Mortgage, so that, subject to said Section 11.28, each and all of said bonds shall have the same right, lien, and privilege under the Original Indenture and the sixty-             supplemental indentures hereinbefore described, or this Supplemental Indenture, and shall be equally secured thereby and hereby and shall have the same proportionate interest and share in the trust estate, with the same effect as if all of the bonds had been issued, sold, and negotiated simultaneously on the date of delivery of the Original Indenture;

AND UPON THE TRUSTS, USES, AND PURPOSES and subject to the covenants, agreements, and conditions in the Original Indenture and the sixty-             supplemental indentures hereinbefore described and herein set forth and declared.

ARTICLE ONE.

BONDS OF THE 20     SERIES AND

CERTAIN PROVISIONS RELATING THERETO.

SECTION 1.01. Certain Terms of Bonds of the 20     Series. There is hereby established a series of First Mortgage Bonds of the Company designated and entitled as “First Mortgage Bonds,         % Series due 20    ” (sometimes referred to as the “Bonds of the 20     Series”). The aggregate principal amount of the Bonds of the 20     Series shall be limited to $            , excluding, however, any Bonds of the 20     Series which may be executed, authenticated, and delivered in exchange for or in lieu of or in substitution for other Bonds of such Series pursuant to the provisions of the Indenture.

The definitive Bonds of the 20     Series shall be issuable in substantially the form as hereinabove set forth in fully registered form without coupons in the denomination of $            , or any amount in excess thereof that is an integral multiple of $            .

 

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Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2.05 of the Mortgage, each Bond of the 20     Series shall be dated as of the date of execution by the Company, shall mature on              20     (the “Maturity Date”), except to the extent redeemed or repaid prior to the Maturity Date, and shall bear interest at the rate of          per cent per annum (calculated on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months) until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. Interest will be paid semi-annually in arrears on                      and                      (each an “Interest Payment Date”) each year from the Interest Payment Date next preceding the date this bond is executed by the Company, or, if the date this bond is executed by the Company is an Interest Payment Date, from such Interest Payment Date, or, if the date this bond is executed by the Company is prior to the Original Issue Date specified on the Bond, from the Original Issue Date. If and to the extent the Company shall default in the payment of interest due on an Interest Payment Date, then interest shall be paid from the date to which interest has been paid, provided, however, that if such default shall be in respect of the interest due on the first Interest Payment Date following the Original Issue Date, then interest shall be paid from the Original Issue Date. If the Maturity Date or an Interest Payment Date falls on a day which is not a Business Day, as defined below, principal or interest payable with respect to such Maturity Date or Interest Payment Date will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such Maturity Date or Interest Payment Date, as the case may be. The person in whose name any Bond of the 20     Series is registered at the close of business on the applicable Record Date (as defined below) with respect to any Interest Payment Date shall be entitled to receive the interest payable thereon on such Interest Payment Date notwithstanding the cancellation of such Bond of the 20     Series upon any registration of transfer or exchange thereof subsequent to such Record Date and prior to such Interest Payment Date, unless the Company shall default in the payment of the interest due on such Interest Payment Date, in which case such defaulted interest shall be paid to the person in whose name such Bond of the 20     Series is registered on a subsequent record date fixed by the Company, which subsequent record date shall be fifteen days prior to the payment of such defaulted interest; provided, however, that interest payable on the Maturity Date will be payable to the person to whom the principal hereof shall be payable. As used herein the term “Business Day” means any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, on which banks in The City of New York, New York are not required or authorized by law to close. As used herein, the term “Record Date” with respect to any Interest Payment Date shall mean the fifteenth day (whether or not such day is a Business Day) next preceding such Interest Payment Date. The principal of the Bonds of the 20     Series shall be payable in any coin or currency of the United States of America which at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, and interest on such Bonds of the 20     Series shall be payable in like coin or currency at said office or agency.

Upon compliance with the provisions of Section 2.06 of the Mortgage and as provided in this Supplemental Indenture, and upon payment of any taxes or other governmental charges payable upon such exchange, Bonds of the 20     Series may be exchanged for a new Bond or Bonds of the 20     Series of different authorized denominations of like aggregate principal amount. The Trustee hereunder shall, by virtue of its office as such Trustee, be the registrar and

 

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transfer agent of the Company for the purpose of registering permitted transfers of Bonds of the 20     Series.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2.11 of the Mortgage, no service charge shall be made for any exchange or registration of transfer of Bonds of the 20     Series, but the Company or the Trustee at either of their option may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge incident thereto.

SECTION 1.02. Redemption Provisions for Bonds of the 20     Series. The Bonds of the 20     Series may be redeemed prior to maturity at any time, in whole or in part, upon prior notice given by mailing such notice to the respective registered owners of such Bonds of the 20     Series not less than thirty nor more than ninety days prior to the redemption date and as otherwise required by the provisions of Article Nine of the Mortgage, at the option of the Company, at a redemption price equal to          percent of the principal amount of the portion of the Bonds of the 20     Series to be redeemed.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9.03 of the Mortgage, in the case of any partial redemption of the Bonds of the 20     Series, the principal amount of the Bonds to be redeemed shall be allocated pro rata among all holders of such Bonds of the 20     Series at the time outstanding and in accordance with the unpaid principal amount thereof.

SECTION 1.03. Sections 4.04, 4.05, and 4.06 to Remain in Effect. Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 4.04, 4.05, 4.06, and 4.07 of the Mortgage, the provisions of Sections 4.04, 4.05, and 4.06 of the Mortgage shall remain in full force and effect and shall be performed by the Company so long as any Bonds of the 20     Series remain outstanding.

SECTION 1.04. Certain Requirements of Mortgage to Remain Applicable. The requirements which are stated in the next to the last paragraph of Section 1.13 and in Clause (9) of Paragraph A of Section 3.01 of the Mortgage to be applicable so long as any of the Bonds of the 1975 Series are outstanding shall remain applicable so long as any of the Bonds of the 20     Series are outstanding.

SECTION 1.05. Certain Exceptions to Sections 2.06 and 2.10 of the Mortgage. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2.06 or Section 2.10 of the Mortgage, the Company shall not be required (a) to issue, register, discharge from registration, exchange, or register the transfer of any Bond of the 20     Series for a period of fifteen days next preceding any selection by the Trustee of Bonds of the 20     Series to be redeemed or (b) to register, discharge from registration, exchange, or register the permitted transfer of any Bond of the 20     Series so selected for redemption in its entirety or (c) to exchange or register the permitted transfer of any portion of a Bond of the 20     Series which portion has been so selected for redemption.

SECTION 1.06. Reference to Minimum Provision for Depreciation in Certificate of Available Additions. So long as any Bonds of the 20     Series remain outstanding, all references to the minimum provision for depreciation in the form of certificate of available additions set forth in Section 3.03 of the Mortgage shall be included in any certificate of available additions filed with the Trustee, but whenever Bonds of the 20     Series shall no longer be outstanding, all references to such minimum provisions for depreciation may be omitted from any such certificate.

SECTION 1.07. Reporting Obligations. To the extent the Company is no longer required to file or does not voluntarily file the following documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), so long as any Bonds of the 2017 Series are outstanding, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and regulations, the following:

(a) All quarterly and annual financial information that would be required to be contained in a filing with the SEC on Forms 10-Q and 10-K if the Company were required to file such forms, including a “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” that describes the financial condition and results of operations of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries and, with respect to the annual information only, a report thereon by the Company’s certified independent accountants.

(b) All current reports that would be required to be filed with the SEC on Form 8-K if the Company were required to file such reports.

The Trustee shall retain such documents in accordance with its customary procedures.

Delivery of such reports, information, and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein (as to which the Trustee may rely solely on Officers’ Certificates).

SECTION 1.08. CUSIP, ISIN, Private Placement, or Common Code Numbers. The Company in issuing the Bonds of the 20__ Series may use “CUSIP,” “ISIN,” “Private Placement, ” or “Common Code” numbers (if then generally in use) and, if so, the Trustee shall use such numbers in notices of redemption or repurchase as a convenience to holders; provided, however, that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the bonds or as contained in any notice of a redemption or repurchase and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the bonds, and any such redemption or repurchase shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in “CUSIP,” “ISIN,” “Private Placement,” or “Common Code” numbers.

 

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SECTION 1.09. Duration of Article One. This Article One shall be of force and effect only so long as any Bonds of the 20     Series are outstanding.

ARTICLE TWO.

TRUSTEE.

SECTION 2.01. Duties of Trustee. The Trustee hereby accepts the trust hereby created. The Trustee undertakes, prior to the occurrence of an event of default and after the curing of all events of default which may have occurred, to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in the Original Indenture as heretofore and hereby supplemented and modified, on and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Original Indenture as so supplemented and modified, and in case of the occurrence of an event of default (which has not been cured) to exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by the Original Indenture as so supplemented and modified, and to use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs.

The Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or the Bonds issued hereunder or the due execution thereof by the Company. The Trustee shall be under no obligation or duty with respect to the filing, registration, or recording of this Supplemental Indenture or the re-filing, re-registration, or re-recording thereof. The recitals of fact contained herein or in the Bonds of the 20     Series (other than the Trustee’s authentication certificate) shall be taken as the statements solely of the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof.

ARTICLE THREE.

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

SECTION 3.01. Date of this Supplemental Indenture. Although this Supplemental Indenture, for convenience and for the purpose of reference, is dated                      , 20    , the actual date of execution by the Company and by the Trustee is as indicated by their respective acknowledgments hereto annexed.

SECTION 3.02. Relation to Original Indenture. This Supplemental Indenture is executed and shall be construed as an indenture supplemental to the Original Indenture as heretofore supplemented and modified, and as supplemented and modified hereby, the Original Indenture as heretofore supplemented and modified is in all respects ratified and confirmed, and the Original Indenture as heretofore and hereby supplemented and modified shall be read, taken, and construed as one and the same instrument. All terms used in this Supplemental Indenture shall be taken to have the same meaning as in the Original Indenture except in cases where the context clearly indicates otherwise.

 

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SECTION 3.03. Invalid, Illegal, or Unenforceable Provisions. In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Supplemental Indenture or in the Bonds shall for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality, or unenforceability shall not affect any other provisions of this Supplemental Indenture, but this Supplemental Indenture shall be construed as if such invalid or illegal or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein.

SECTION 3.04. Counterparts. This Supplemental Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, and each of such counterparts shall for all purposes be deemed to be an original, and all such counterparts, or as many of them as the Company and the Trustee shall preserve undestroyed, shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

SECTION 3.05. Conflicting Provision. If any provision of this Supplemental Indenture conflicts with another provision of the Mortgage required to be included in indentures qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (as enacted prior to the date of this Supplemental Indenture) by any of the provisions of said Act, such required provision shall control.

SECTION 3.06. Headings. Article and Section headings and the table of contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this Supplemental Indenture, and are not to affect the construction of, or to be taken into consideration in interpreting, this Supplemental Indenture.

SECTION 3.07. Governing Law. THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK DETERMINED WITHOUT REFERENCE TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS (OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK), PROVIDED THAT THE FOREGOING SHALL NOT APPLY TO THE CREATION OR ENFORCEMENT OF ANY LIEN ON REAL PROPERTY CREATED BY THE INDENTURE, WHICH SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE IN WHICH SUCH REAL PROPERTY IS LOCATED.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Portland General Electric Company has caused this Supplemental Indenture to be signed in its corporate name by its President or one of its Executive Vice Presidents or one of its Vice Presidents and its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed and attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries, and in token of its acceptance of the trusts created hereunder, HSBC Bank USA, National Association has caused this Supplemental Indenture to be signed in its corporate name by one of its Vice Presidents or one of its Assistant Vice Presidents or one of its Corporate Trust Officers and its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed and attested by one of its Corporate Trust Officers, all as of the day and year first above written.

 

           PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
       By:  

 

       Name:
       Title:
Attest:           
Name:         
Title:         
(Seal)         
       HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
       as Trustee
       By:  

 

       Name:
       Title:
Attest:           
Title:           
(Seal)         

 

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State of Oregon

   )
   ) ss.

County of Multnomah

   )

The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me on this          day of             , 20     by                     , the                      of PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, an Oregon corporation, on behalf of said corporation.

 

                                                                                                         

Notary Public for Oregon

My Commission Expires                                 

[NOTARIAL SEAL]

 

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State of New York

   )
   ) ss.

County of _________

   )

The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me on this          day of             , 20     by                     , a(an)                      of HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, on behalf of said association.

 

                                                                                                        

Notary Public, State of New York

No.                                 

My Commission Expires                                 

[NOTARIAL SEAL]

 

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State of Oregon

   )
   ) ss.

County of Multnomah

   )

                     and                     , the                                 , and an                                 , respectively, of PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, an Oregon corporation, the mortgagor in the foregoing mortgage named, being first duly sworn, on oath depose and say that they are the officer above named of said corporation and that this affidavit is made for and on its behalf by authority of its Board of Directors and that the aforesaid mortgage is made by said mortgagor in good faith, and without any design to hinder, delay, or defraud creditors.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this          day of             , 20    .

 

                                                                                                       

Notary Public for Oregon

My Commission Expires                                 

[NOTARIAL SEAL]

 

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Opinion of General Counsel

EXHIBIT 5.1

Portland General Electric Company

121 SW Salmon Street

Portland, Oregon 97204

November 18, 2010

Portland General Electric Company

121 SW Salmon Street

Portland, Oregon 97204

Ladies and Gentlemen:

In my capacity as General Counsel of Portland General Electric Company, an Oregon corporation (the “Company”), I am delivering this opinion in connection with the filing of an automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”) to be filed on the date hereof by the Company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). The Registration Statement relates to the proposed issuance and sale from time to time by the Company, pursuant to Rule 415 of the General Rules and Regulations promulgated under the Securities Act, of the following securities of the Company: (i) the Company’s first mortgage bonds (the “First Mortgage Bonds”), which may be issued under the Indenture of Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of July 1, 1945, between the Company and HSBC Bank USA, National Association (as successor to The Marine Midland Trust Company of New York), as trustee (the “Trustee”) (as amended or supplemented to date and from time to time, the “Mortgage”), as proposed to be further amended and supplemented pursuant to a supplemental indenture in the form filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement proposed to be entered into between the Company and the Trustee (the “Supplemental Indenture”), and (ii) shares of the Company’s common stock, no par value (the “Common Stock”). The First Mortgage Bonds and the Common Stock are collectively referred to herein as the “Offered Securities.”

This opinion is being delivered in accordance with the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act.

In rendering the opinion set forth herein, I or attorneys under my supervision (with whom I have consulted) have examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to my satisfaction, of: (i) the Second Amended and Restated Articles of


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Incorporation of the Company, as currently in effect (the “Articles of Incorporation”), (ii) the Seventh Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, as currently in effect (the “Bylaws”), (iii) certain resolutions adopted to date by the Board of Directors of the Company relating to the registration of the Offered Securities and related matters and (iv) the Registration Statement and the exhibits thereto. I or attorneys under my supervision (with whom I have consulted) have also examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to my satisfaction, of such records of the Company and such agreements, certificates and receipts of public officials, certificates of officers or other representatives of the Company and others, and such other documents, certificates and records as I or attorneys under my supervision (with whom I have consulted) have deemed necessary or appropriate as a basis for the opinion set forth herein.

In my examination, I or attorneys under my supervision (with whom I have consulted) have assumed the legal capacity of all natural persons, the genuineness of all signatures, including endorsements, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as facsimile, electronic, certified, conformed or photostatic copies and the authenticity of the originals of such copies. As to any facts material to this opinion that I or attorneys under my supervision (with whom I have consulted) did not independently establish or verify, we have relied upon oral or written statements and representations of officers and other representatives of the Company and others and of public officials.

In making my examination of executed documents or documents to be executed, I or attorneys under my supervision (with whom I have consulted) have assumed that the parties thereto, other than the Company, had or will have the power, corporate or other, to enter into and perform all obligations thereunder and have also assumed the due authorization by all requisite action, corporate or other, and execution and delivery by such parties of such documents and the validity and binding effect on such parties. In addition, I or attorneys under my supervision (with whom I have consulted) have assumed (i) that all Offered Securities will be issued and sold in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws and in the manner stated in the Registration Statement and the applicable prospectus supplement, and, with respect to shares of Common Stock offered, there will be sufficient shares of Common Stock authorized under the Company’s Articles of Incorporation and not otherwise reserved for issuance and (ii) that the terms of the Offered Securities will have been established so as not to, and that the execution and delivery by the Company of, and the performance of its obligations under, the Offered Securities, will not, violate, conflict with or constitute a default under (i) any agreement or instrument to which the Company is subject, (ii) any law, rule or regulation to which the Company is subject, (iii) any judicial or regulatory order or decree of any governmental authority or (iv) any consent, approval, license, authorization or validation of, or filing, recording or registration with any governmental authority.

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normally applicable to the Common Stock covered by the Registration Statement and, to the extent that judicial or regulatory orders or decrees or consents, approvals, licenses, authorizations, validations, filings, recordings or registrations with governmental authorities are relevant, to those required under such laws (all of the foregoing being referred to as “Opined on Law”). I do not express any opinion with respect to the law of any jurisdiction other than Opined on Law or as to the effect of the law of any other jurisdiction on the opinion stated herein. The Offered Securities may be issued from time to time on a delayed or continuous basis, and this opinion is limited to the laws, including the rules and regulations under the Securities Act, as in effect on the date hereof, which laws are subject to change with possible retroactive effect.

Based upon and subject to the foregoing and to the other limitations, qualifications, exceptions and assumptions set forth herein, I am of the opinion that:

1. With respect to the shares of any Common Stock offered by the Company pursuant to the Registration Statement (the “Offered Common Stock”), when (i) the Registration Statement, as finally amended (including all necessary post-effective amendments), has become effective under the Securities Act, (ii) the Board of Directors, including any appropriate committee appointed thereby, and appropriate officers of the Company have taken all necessary corporate action to approve the issuance of the Offered Common Stock and related matters, (iii) if the Offered Common Stock is to be sold pursuant to a firm commitment underwritten offering, the underwriting agreement with respect to the Offered Common Stock has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the other parties thereto, (iv) the terms of the issuance and sale of the Offered Common Stock have been duly established in conformity with the Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws so as not to violate any applicable law, the Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon the Company and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over the Company, (v) the Company has obtained the requisite approval by the Public Utility Commission of Oregon regarding such issuance of the Offered Common Stock, (vi) an appropriate prospectus supplement or term sheet with respect to the Offered Common Stock has been prepared, delivered and filed in compliance with the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder, (vii) certificates representing the shares of Offered Common Stock have been duly executed, countersigned, registered and delivered upon payment of the agreed upon consideration therefor in accordance with such corporate action, then, upon the happening of such events, the shares of Offered Common Stock, when issued and sold in accordance with the applicable underwriting agreement, if any, or any other duly authorized, executed and delivered valid and binding agreement, will be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

I hereby consent to the filing of this opinion with the Commission as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the reference to me under the heading “Legal Matters” in the prospectus constituting a part of the Registration Statement. In giving this consent,


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I do not thereby admit that I am in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder. This opinion is expressed as of the date hereof unless otherwise expressly stated, and I disclaim any undertaking to advise you of any subsequent changes in the facts stated or assumed herein or of any subsequent changes in applicable laws.

 

Very truly yours,
/S/    J. JEFFREY DUDLEY        

J. Jeffrey Dudley

Vice President and General Counsel

Opinion of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

EXHIBIT 5.2

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Four Times Square

New York, New York 10036

November 18, 2010

Portland General Electric Company

121 SW Salmon Street

Portland, Oregon 97204

 

  Re: Portland General Electric Company
          Registration Statement on Form S-3

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as special counsel to Portland General Electric Company, an Oregon corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”), to be filed on the date hereof by the Company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”). The Registration Statement relates to the issuance and sale from time to time by the Company, pursuant to Rule 415 of the General Rules and Regulations promulgated under the Act, of the following securities of the Company: (i) the Company’s first mortgage bonds (the “First Mortgage Bonds”), which may be issued under the Indenture of Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of July 1, 1945, between the Company and HSBC Bank USA, National Association (as successor to The Marine Midland Trust Company of New York), as trustee (the “Trustee”) (as amended or supplemented to date and from time to time, the “Mortgage”), as proposed to be further amended and supplemented pursuant to a supplemental indenture in the form filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement proposed to be entered into between the Company and the Trustee (the “Supplemental Indenture”), and (ii) shares of the Company’s common stock, no par value (the “Common Stock”). The First Mortgage Bonds and the Common Stock are collectively referred to herein as the “Offered Securities.”

This opinion is being delivered in accordance with the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K adopted under the Act.

In connection with this opinion, we have examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of: (i) the Registration Statement


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relating to the Offered Securities, (ii) the Mortgage, filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement, (iii) the form of Supplemental Indenture, filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement, (iv) the Statement of Eligibility and Qualification on Form T-1 under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, of the Trustee, filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement, and (v) certain resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company relating to the registration of the Offered Securities and related matters. We have also examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such records of the Company and such agreements, certificates and receipts of public officials, certificates of officers or other representatives of the Company and others, and such other documents, certificates and records as we have deemed necessary or appropriate as a basis for the opinion set forth herein.

In our examination, we have assumed the legal capacity of all natural persons, the genuineness of all signatures, including endorsements, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as facsimile, electronic, certified, conformed or photostatic copies and the authenticity of the originals of such copies. As to any facts material to the opinion expressed herein which were not independently established or verified, we have relied upon oral or written statements and representations of officers and other representatives of the Company and others and of public officials. In making our examination of documents executed or to be executed, we have assumed that the parties thereto, including the Company, had or will have the power, corporate or other, to enter into and perform all obligations thereunder and have also assumed the due authorization by all requisite action, corporate or other, and execution and delivery by such parties of such documents and, except to the extent expressly set forth in the opinion below, the validity and binding effect thereof on such parties. We have assumed that the Mortgage has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Trustee and that any First Mortgage Bonds that may be issued will be manually authenticated, signed or countersigned, as the case may be, by duly authorized officers of the Trustee.

In addition, we have also assumed that the terms of the Offered Securities will have been established so as not to, and that the execution and delivery by the Company of, and the performance of its obligations under, the Mortgage will not violate, conflict with or constitute a default under (i) any agreement or instrument to which the Company is subject, (ii) any law, rule or regulation to which the Company is subject, (iii) any judicial or regulatory order or decree of any governmental authority or (iv) any consent, approval, license, authorization or validation of, or filing, recording or registration with any governmental authority.

Our opinion set forth below is limited to the laws of the State of New York that, in our experience, are normally applicable to debt securities of the type covered by the Registration Statement and, to the extent that judicial or regulatory orders or decrees or


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consents, approvals, licenses, authorizations, validations, filings, recordings or registrations with governmental authorities are relevant, to those required under such laws (all of the foregoing being referred to as “Opined on Law”). We do not express any opinion with respect to the law of any jurisdiction other than Opined on Law or as to the effect of any such non-Opined on Law on the opinion herein stated and, with respect to the laws of the State of Oregon, we have assumed compliance with such laws. The Offered Securities may be issued from time to time on a delayed or continuous basis, and this opinion is limited to the laws, including the rules and regulations under the Act, as in effect on the date hereof, which laws are subject to change with possible retroactive effect.

Based upon and subject to the foregoing and to the other limitations, qualifications, exceptions and assumptions set forth herein, we are of the opinion that, with respect to any series of First Mortgage Bonds offered by the Company (the “Offered First Mortgage Bonds”), when (i) the Registration Statement, as finally amended (including all necessary post-effective amendments), has become effective under the Act; (ii) an appropriate prospectus supplement with respect to the Offered First Mortgage Bonds has been prepared, delivered and filed in compliance with the Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder; (iii) if the Offered First Mortgage Bonds are to be sold pursuant to a firm commitment underwritten offering, the underwriting agreement with respect to the Offered First Mortgage Bonds has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the other parties thereto; (iv) the Board of Directors of the Company, including any appropriate committee appointed thereby, and appropriate officers of the Company have taken all necessary corporate action to approve the issuance, sale and terms of the Offered First Mortgage Bonds and related matters; (v) the terms of the Offered First Mortgage Bonds and of their issuance and sale have been duly established in conformity with the Mortgage and any supplemental indenture so as not to violate any applicable law, the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as currently in effect, or the Seventh Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company or result in a default under or breach of any agreement or instrument binding upon the Company and so as to comply with any requirement or restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over the Company; (vi) the Company has obtained the requisite approval by the Public Utility Commission of Oregon regarding the issuance of the Offered First Mortgage Bonds; and (vii) the Offered First Mortgage Bonds have been duly executed and authenticated in accordance with the provisions of the Mortgage and any supplemental indenture and duly delivered to the purchasers thereof upon payment of the agreed-upon consideration therefor, the Offered First Mortgage Bonds when issued and sold in accordance with the Mortgage and any supplemental indenture and the applicable underwriting agreement, if any, or any other duly authorized, executed and delivered valid and binding purchase or agency agreement, will be valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their respective terms, except to the extent that


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enforcement thereof may be limited by (a) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent conveyance, moratorium or other similar laws now or hereafter in effect relating to creditors’ rights generally, (b) general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforceability is considered in a proceeding at law or in equity), (c) public policy considerations which may limit the rights of parties to obtain remedies, (d) the waivers of any usury defense contained in the Mortgage, any supplemental indenture or the Offered First Mortgage Bonds which may be unenforceable, (e) requirements that a claim with respect to any Offered First Mortgage Bonds denominated in a currency, currency unit or composite currency other than United States dollars (or a judgment denominated other than in United States dollars in respect of such claim) be converted into United States dollars at a rate of exchange prevailing on a date determined pursuant to applicable law, and (f) governmental authority to limit, delay or prohibit the making of payments outside the United States or in foreign currencies, currency units or composite currencies.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion with the Commission as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. We also hereby consent to the reference to our firm under the heading “Legal Matters” in the prospectus which forms a part of the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder. This opinion is expressed as of the date hereof unless otherwise expressly stated, and we disclaim any undertaking to advise you of any subsequent changes in the facts stated or assumed herein or of any subsequent changes in applicable laws.

Very truly yours,

/s/ Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges

Exhibit 12

PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

COMPUTATION OF RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES

 

     Nine Months Ended
September 30,
     Years Ended December 31,  
      2010      2009      2008      2007      2006      2005  
     (Thousands of Dollars)  

Income From Continuing Operations Before Income Taxes

     139,741         131,636         121,825         220,123         107,240         105,759   

Fixed Charges From Below

     100,300         129,948         111,589         98,682         91,846         85,330   
                                                     

Total Earnings

     240,041         261,584         233,414         318,805         199,086         191,089   
                                                     

Fixed Charges:

                 

Interest Expense

     82,148         103,389         90,257         74,362         68,932         68,359   

Capitalized Interest

     8,110         11,816         6,184         9,596         8,482         3,717   

Interest On Certain Long-Term Power Contracts

     6,501         10,038         10,010         9,552         9,927         8,634   

Estimated Interest Factor In Rental Expense

     3,541         4,705         5,138         5,172         4,505         4,620   
                                                     

Total Fixed Charges

     100,300         129,948         111,589         98,682         91,846         85,330   
                                                     

Ratio Of Earnings To Fixed Charges

     2.39         2.01         2.09         3.23         2.17         2.24   
Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP

Exhibit 23.1

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We consent to the use in this Registration Statement on Form S-3 of our reports dated February 24, 2010 relating to the financial statements of Portland General Electric Company (the “Company”) and the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting, incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, which is part of this Registration Statement. We also consent to the reference to us under the heading “Experts” in such Prospectus.

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP

Portland, Oregon

November 18, 2010

Powers of Attorney

EXHIBIT 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-3

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Portland General Electric Company (the Company) hereby constitutes and appoints James J. Piro, Chief Executive Officer and President, Maria M. Pope, Senior Vice President, Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and J. Jeffrey Dudley, Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Compliance Officer, and each of them, and any successor or successors to such offices held by each of them, with full power (any one of them acting alone), as true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign the registration statement on Form S-3 to be filed in connection with the offerings of securities of the Company and any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, and any subsequent registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and the other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

Effective as of October 27, 2010    

/s/    John W. Ballantine        

    Signature
   

John W. Ballantine

    Print Name


POWER OF ATTORNEY

REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-3

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Portland General Electric Company (the Company) hereby constitutes and appoints James J. Piro, Chief Executive Officer and President, Maria M. Pope, Senior Vice President, Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and J. Jeffrey Dudley, Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Compliance Officer, and each of them, and any successor or successors to such offices held by each of them, with full power (any one of them acting alone), as true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign the registration statement on Form S-3 to be filed in connection with the offerings of securities of the Company and any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, and any subsequent registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and the other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

Effective as of October 27, 2010    

/s/    Rodney L. Brown Jr.        

    Signature
   

Rodney L. Brown Jr.

    Print Name


POWER OF ATTORNEY

REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-3

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Portland General Electric Company (the Company) hereby constitutes and appoints James J. Piro, Chief Executive Officer and President, Maria M. Pope, Senior Vice President, Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and J. Jeffrey Dudley, Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Compliance Officer, and each of them, and any successor or successors to such offices held by each of them, with full power (any one of them acting alone), as true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign the registration statement on Form S-3 to be filed in connection with the offerings of securities of the Company and any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, and any subsequent registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and the other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

Effective as of October 27, 2010    

/s/    David A. Dietzler        

    Signature
   

David A. Dietzler

    Print Name


POWER OF ATTORNEY

REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-3

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Portland General Electric Company (the Company) hereby constitutes and appoints James J. Piro, Chief Executive Officer and President, Maria M. Pope, Senior Vice President, Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and J. Jeffrey Dudley, Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Compliance Officer, and each of them, and any successor or successors to such offices held by each of them, with full power (any one of them acting alone), as true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign the registration statement on Form S-3 to be filed in connection with the offerings of securities of the Company and any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, and any subsequent registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and the other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

Effective as of October 27, 2010    

/s/    Kirby A. Dyess        

    Signature
   

Kirby A. Dyess

    Print Name


POWER OF ATTORNEY

REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-3

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Portland General Electric Company (the Company) hereby constitutes and appoints James J. Piro, Chief Executive Officer and President, Maria M. Pope, Senior Vice President, Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and J. Jeffrey Dudley, Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Compliance Officer, and each of them, and any successor or successors to such offices held by each of them, with full power (any one of them acting alone), as true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign the registration statement on Form S-3 to be filed in connection with the offerings of securities of the Company and any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, and any subsequent registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and the other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

Effective as of October 27, 2010    

/s/    Peggy Y. Fowler        

    Signature
   

Peggy Y. Fowler

    Print Name


POWER OF ATTORNEY

REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-3

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Portland General Electric Company (the Company) hereby constitutes and appoints James J. Piro, Chief Executive Officer and President, Maria M. Pope, Senior Vice President, Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and J. Jeffrey Dudley, Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Compliance Officer, and each of them, and any successor or successors to such offices held by each of them, with full power (any one of them acting alone), as true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign the registration statement on Form S-3 to be filed in connection with the offerings of securities of the Company and any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, and any subsequent registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and the other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

Effective as of October 27, 2010    

/s/    Mark B. Ganz      

    Signature
   

Mark B. Ganz

    Print Name


POWER OF ATTORNEY

REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-3

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Portland General Electric Company (the Company) hereby constitutes and appoints James J. Piro, Chief Executive Officer and President, Maria M. Pope, Senior Vice President, Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and J. Jeffrey Dudley, Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Compliance Officer, and each of them, and any successor or successors to such offices held by each of them, with full power (any one of them acting alone), as true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign the registration statement on Form S-3 to be filed in connection with the offerings of securities of the Company and any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, and any subsequent registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and the other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

Effective as of October 27, 2010    

/s/    Corbin A. McNeill Jr.        

    Signature
   

Corbin A. McNeill Jr.

    Print Name


POWER OF ATTORNEY

REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-3

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Portland General Electric Company (the Company) hereby constitutes and appoints James J. Piro, Chief Executive Officer and President, Maria M. Pope, Senior Vice President, Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and J. Jeffrey Dudley, Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Compliance Officer, and each of them, and any successor or successors to such offices held by each of them, with full power (any one of them acting alone), as true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign the registration statement on Form S-3 to be filed in connection with the offerings of securities of the Company and any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, and any subsequent registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and the other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

Effective as of October 27, 2010    

/s/    Neil J. Nelson        

    Signature
   

Neil J. Nelson

    Print Name


POWER OF ATTORNEY

REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-3

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Portland General Electric Company (the Company) hereby constitutes and appoints James J. Piro, Chief Executive Officer and President, Maria M. Pope, Senior Vice President, Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and J. Jeffrey Dudley, Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Compliance Officer, and each of them, and any successor or successors to such offices held by each of them, with full power (any one of them acting alone), as true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign the registration statement on Form S-3 to be filed in connection with the offerings of securities of the Company and any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, and any subsequent registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and the other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

Effective as of October 27, 2010    

/s/    M. Lee Pelton        

    Signature
   

M. Lee Pelton

    Print Name


POWER OF ATTORNEY

REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-3

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Portland General Electric Company (the Company) hereby constitutes and appoints James J. Piro, Chief Executive Officer and President, Maria M. Pope, Senior Vice President, Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and J. Jeffrey Dudley, Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Compliance Officer, and each of them, and any successor or successors to such offices held by each of them, with full power (any one of them acting alone), as true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign the registration statement on Form S-3 to be filed in connection with the offerings of securities of the Company and any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, and any subsequent registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and the other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

Effective as of October 27, 2010    

/s/    James J. Piro        

    Signature
   

James J. Piro

    Print Name


POWER OF ATTORNEY

REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-3

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Portland General Electric Company (the Company) hereby constitutes and appoints James J. Piro, Chief Executive Officer and President, Maria M. Pope, Senior Vice President, Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and J. Jeffrey Dudley, Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Compliance Officer, and each of them, and any successor or successors to such offices held by each of them, with full power (any one of them acting alone), as true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign the registration statement on Form S-3 to be filed in connection with the offerings of securities of the Company and any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, and any subsequent registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and the other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

Effective as of October 27, 2010    

/s/    Robert T.F. Reid        

    Signature
   

Robert T.F Reid

    Print Name
Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Trustee

Exhibit 25

CONFORMED COPY

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM T-1

STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY UNDER THE TRUST

INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 OF A CORPORATION

DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE

CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE

ELIGIBILITY OF A TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO

SECTION 305(b)(2)

HSBC Bank USA, National Association

(Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)

 

N/A   20-1177241
(Jurisdiction of incorporation   (I.R.S. Employer
or organization if not a U.S.   Identification No.)
national bank)  
1800 Tyson’s Boulevard, Ste 50  
McLean, VA   22102
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

Kevin T. O’Brien, SVP

HSBC Bank USA, National Association

452 Fifth Avenue

New York, New York 10018-2706

Tel: (212) 525-1311

(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)

Portland General Electric Company

(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)

 

Oregon   93-0256820
(State or other jurisdiction   (I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation or organization)   Identification No.)
121 SW Salmon Street  
Portland, Oregon   97204
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

First Mortgage Bonds

(Title of Indenture Securities)


General

 

Item 1. General Information.

Furnish the following information as to the trustee:

 

  (a) Name and address of each examining or supervisory authority to which it is subject.

Comptroller of the Currency, New York, NY.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Washington, D.C.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, D.C.

 

  (b) Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.

Yes.

 

Item 2. Affiliations with Obligor.

If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each such affiliation.

None

 

Items 3-15. Not Applicable


Item 16. List of Exhibits

 

Exhibit

         
T1A(i)    (1)    Copy of the Articles of Association of HSBC Bank USA, National Association.
T1A(ii)    (1)    Certificate of the Comptroller of the Currency dated July 1, 2004 as to the authority of HSBC Bank USA, National Association to commence business.
T1A(iii)    (2)    Certificate of Fiduciary Powers dated August 18, 2004 for HSBC Bank USA, National Association
T1A(iv)    (1)    Copy of the existing By-Laws of HSBC Bank USA, National Association.
T1A(v)       Not applicable.
T1A(vi)    (2)    Consent of HSBC Bank USA, National Association required by Section 321(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939.
T1A(vii)       Copy of the latest report of condition of the trustee ( June 30, 2010), published pursuant to law or the requirement of its supervisory or examining authority.
T1A(viii)       Not applicable.
T1A(ix)       Not applicable.

 

(1) Exhibits previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission with Registration No. 333-118523 and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
(2) Exhibits previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission with Registration No. 333-125197 and incorporated herein by reference thereto.


SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the Trustee, HSBC Bank USA, National Association, a national banking association organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, has duly caused this statement of eligibility to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in the City of New York and State of New York on the 11th day of November, 2010.

 

HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By:   /S/    HERAWATTEE ALLI        
  Herawattee Alli
  Vice President


Exhibit T1A (vii)

 

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council  

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

OMB Number: 7100-0036

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

OMB Number: 3064-0052

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

OMB Number: 1557-0081

 

Expires March 31, 2011

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

   

 

Please refer to page i,

Table of Contents, for

the required disclosure

of estimated burden.

 

 
     

 

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Consolidated Reports of Condition and Income for

A Bank With Domestic and Foreign Offices—FFIEC 031

 

Report at the close of business June 30, 2010    (20040630)
   (RCRI 9999)

 

This report is required by law; 12 U.S.C. §324 (State member banks); 12 U.S.C. § 1817 (State nonmember banks); and 12 U.S.C. §161 (National banks).

NOTE: The Reports of Condition and Income must be signed by an authorized officer and the Report of Condition must be attested to by not less than two directors (trustees) for State nonmember banks and three directors for State member and National Banks.

 

I,    John T. McGinnis, CFO
   Name and Title of Officer Authorized to Sign Report

Of the named bank do hereby declare that these Reports of Condition and Income (including the supporting schedules) have been prepared in conformance with the instructions issued by the appropriate Federal regulatory authority and are true to the best of my knowledge and believe.

 

    /s/  John T. McGinnis

Signature of Officer Authorized to Sign Report

8/4/2010

Date of Signature

 

This report form is to be filed by banks with branches and consolidated subsidiaries in U.S. territories and possessions, Edge or Agreement subsidiaries, foreign branches, consolidated foreign subsidiaries, or International Banking Facilities.

The Reports of Condition and Income are to be prepared in accordance with Federal regulatory authority instructions.

We, the undersigned directors (trustees), attest to the correctness of this Report of Condition (including the supporting schedules) and declare that it has been examined by us and to the best of our knowledge and belief has been prepared in conformance with the instructions issued by the appropriate Federal regulatory authority and is true and correct.

 

    /s/  Irene Dorney

Director (Trustee)

    /s/  Niall Booker

Director (Trustee)

    /s/  Richard Jalkut

Director (Trustee)

 

 

Submission of Reports

 

Each Bank must prepare its Reports of Condition and Income either:

 

(a) in electronic form and then file the computer data file directly with the banking agencies’ collection agent, Electronic Data System Corporation (EDS), by modem or computer diskette; or

 

b) in hard-copy (paper) form and arrange for another party to convert the paper report to automated for. That party (if other than EDS) must transmit the bank’s computer data file to EDS.

 

For electronic filing assistance, contact EDS Call report Services, 2150 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53202, telephone (800) 255-1571.

To fulfill the signature and attestation requirement for the Reports of Condition and Income for this report date, attach this signature page to the hard-copy f the completed report that the bank places in its files.


 

 

 

FDIC Certificate Number    5      7      8      9      0  
  (RCRI 9030)

 

http://WWW.BANKING.US.HSBC.COM

    Primary Internet Web Address of Bank (Home Page), if any (TEXT 4087)

    (Example: www.examplebank.com)

HSBC Bank USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

Legal Title of Bank (TEXT 9010)

Wilmington

City (TEXT 9130)

DE                                                                          19801

State Abbrev. (TEXT 9200)                ZIP Code (TEXT 9220)


Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

REPORT OF CONDITION

 

Consolidated domestic subsidiaries

HSBC Bank USA, National Association   of Buffalo
    Name of Bank   City

in the state of New York, at the close of business June 30, 2010

 

     Thousands of dollars  

ASSETS

     

Cash and balances due from depository institutions:

     

a. Non-interest-bearing balances currency and coin

        2,719.012   

b. Interest-bearing balances

        13,922,696   

Held-to-maturity securities

        3,669,653   

Available-for-sale securities

        36,674,794   

Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell:

     

a. Federal funds sold in domestic offices

        0   

b. Securities purchased under agreements to resell

        15,490,455   

Loans and lease financing receivables:

     

Loans and leases held for sale

        2,715,138   

Loans and leases net of unearned income

     72,087,978      

LESS: Allowance for loan and lease losses

     2,920,573      

Loans and lease, net of unearned income, allowance, and reserve

        69,167,405   

Trading assets

        29,015,752   

Premises and fixed assets

        518,658   

Other real estate owned

        137,940   

Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries

        17,963   

Customers’ liability to this bank on acceptances outstanding

        NA   

Intangible assets: Goodwill

        2,056,813   

Intangible assets: Other intangible assets

        350,070   

Other assets

        7,138,759   

Total assets

        183,595,108   

LIABILITIES

     

Deposits:

     

In domestic offices

        91,964,383   

Non-interest-bearing

     21,443,011      

Interest-bearing

     70,521,372      

In foreign offices

        36,664,787   


Non-interest-bearing

     1,478,946      

Interest-bearing

     35,185,841      

Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase:

     

a. Federal funds purchased in domestic offices

        71,680   

b. Securities sold under agreements to repurchase

        4,687,885   

Trading Liabilities

        10,898,085   

Other borrowed money

        13,466,415   

Bank’s liability on acceptances

        NA   

Subordinated notes and debentures

        4,904,348   

Other liabilities

        3,825,935   
           

Total liabilities

        166,483,518   
           

Minority Interests in consolidated Subsidiaries

        N/A   

EQUITY CAPITAL

     

Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus

        0   

Common Stock

        2,001   

Surplus

        15,804,739   

Retained earnings

        1,131,510   

Accumulated other comprehensive income

        173,107   

Other equity capital components

        0   

Total equity capital

        17,111,590   

Total liabilities, minority interests and equity capital

        183,595,108