SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                   Washington, D.C.  20549
                              
                         FORM U-6B-2
                              
                 Certificate of Notification
                              
                  Certificate is filed by:
                              
                   Entergy Arkansas, Inc.
                   425 West Capitol Avenue
                Little Rock, Arkansas  72201
                              
                              
     This certificate is notice that the above named company
(the "Company") has issued, renewed or guaranteed the
security or securities described herein, which issue,
renewal or guaranty was exempted from the provisions of
Section 6 (a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of
1935, as amended, and was neither the subject of a
declaration or application on Form U-1 nor included within
the exemption provided by Rule U-48.

      1.     Type of security or securities:
             First Mortgage Bonds
             
      2.     Issue, renewal or guaranty:
             Issue
             
      3.     Principal amount of each security:
             $85,000,000
             
      4.     Rate of interest per annum of each
             security:
             7% per annum
             
      5.     Date of issue, renewal or guaranty
             of each security:
             Dated and issued on March 19, 1997
             
      6.     If renewal of security, give date of
             original issue:
             Not applicable
             
      7.     Date of maturity of each security:
             March 1, 2002
             
      8.     Name of the person to whom each
             security was issued, renewed or
             guaranteed:
             Cede & Co.

      9.     Collateral given with each security,
             if any:
             A first mortgage lien on all of the
             existing and after- acquired
             properties of the Company , subject
             to certain exceptions.
             
     10.     Consideration received for each
             security:
             $84,361,650.00
             
     11.     Application of proceeds of each
             security:
             The net proceeds from the issuance
             and sale of the securities of the
             Company will be used to satisfy a
             portion of the Company's annual
             maintenance and replacement fund
             requirement under the Company's
             Mortgage and Deed of Trust and for
             general corporate purposes.
             
     12.     Indicate by ("X") after the
             applicable statement below whether
             the issue, renewal or guaranty of
             each security was exempt from the
             provisions of Section 6 (a) because
             of:
             
             a.   the provisions contained in the
                  first sentence of Section 6 (b):
             b.   the provisions contained in the
                  fourth sentence of Section 6
                  (b):
             c.   the provisions contained in any
                  rule of the Commission other than 
                  Rule U-48:  X
             
     13.     If the security or securities were
             exempt from the provisions of
             Section 6 (a) by virtue of the first
             sentence of Section 6 (b), give the
             figures which indicate that the
             security or securities aggregate
             (together with all other then
             outstanding notes and drafts of a
             maturity of nine months or less,
             exclusive of days of grace, as to
             which such company is primarily or
             secondarily liable) not more than 5
             per centum of the principal amount
             of par value of the other securities
             of such company then outstanding:
             Not applicable.
             

     14.     If the security or securities are
             exempt from the provisions of
             Section 6 (a) because of the fourth
             sentence of Section 6 (b), name the
             security outstanding on January 1,
             1935, pursuant to the terms of which
             the security or securities herein
             described have been issued:
             Not applicable.
             
     15.     If the security or securities are
             exempt from the provisions of
             Section 6 (a) because of any rule of
             the Commission other than Rule U-48,
             designate the rule under which
             exemption is claimed:
             Rule 52.
             


                            ENTERGY ARKANSAS, INC.
                            
                            
                            BY:  /s/ William J. Regan, Jr.
                                 William J. Regan, Jr.
                              Vice President and Treasurer
                                            
Date:  March 25, 1997