SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                                Washington, D.C.

                          Three year period ending 2003

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

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

         1. Name and business address of person filing statement.
                  Chris M. Hobson, 241 Ralph McGill Blvd., N.E.
                  Atlanta, Georgia   30308-3374

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

                  N/A

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

                  Georgia Power Company - Southern Company and all its
subsidiaries.

         4. Position or relationship in which the undersigned is employed or
retained by each of the companies named in item 3, and brief description of
nature of services to be rendered in each such position or relationship.
                  V.P., Environmental Affairs
                  This position provides leadership and direction for the
                  development, management and implementation of cost effective
                  corporate environmental and occupational health policies and
                  programs to assure compliance, limit liability, and protect
                  human health and the environment. Provides leadership and
                  direction to influence the development of environmental and
                  occupational health laws, regulations and public policy at the
                  federal, state and local level.

         5. (a) Compensation received during the prior reporting period and
estimated to be received over the next two calendar years by the undersigned or
others, directly or indirectly, for services rendered by the undersigned, from
each of the companies designated in item 3. (Use column (a) as supplementary
statement only.)
                Salary or other
                compensations
Name of    received     to be            Person or company from whom received
recipient               received         or to be received

           (a)         (b)               Georgia Power Company
First M. $n/a         to be included
Last                  in supplementary
                      statement
Chris M. Hobson

           (b)    Basis for compensation if other than salary. N/A

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

           (a) Total amount of routine expenses charged to client: n/a

           (b) Itemized list of all other expenses:  n/a

Date _1/29/02_______________       _Chris M. Hobson______________________
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                                  Signed) /s/ First M. Last