SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                                Washington, D. C.

                                   FORM U-6B-2

                           Certificate of Notification

                              Filed by a registered
                               holding company or
                               subsidiary thereof
                                pursuant to Rule
                               20(d) adopted under
                               the Public Utility
                               Holding Company Act
                                    of 1935.

                      SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC & GAS COMPANY
                                  (the Company)

      This certificate is notice that the above named company has issued,
renewed or guaranteed the security or securities described herein which issue,
renewal or guaranty was exempted from the provisions of Section 6(a) of the Act
and was neither the subject of a declaration or application on Form U-1 nor
included within the exemption provided by Rule 48.

     1. Type of security or securities.

           First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds (the Bonds)

     2. Issue, renewal or guaranty.

            Issue

     3. Principal amount of each security.

           $35,465,000 in aggregate principal amount

     4. Rate of interest per annum of each security.

            0%

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

           May 28, 2003

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

           Not Applicable

     7. Date of maturity of each security.

           December 31, 2098







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

           The Bonds were issued to JPMorgan Chase Bank, Trustee (the Trustee).

     9. Collateral given with each security, if any.

            The Bonds are secured by a lien upon substantially all of the fixed
            property and franchises used or useful in the Company's public
            utility businesses (except cash, securities, contracts and accounts
            receivable, materials and supplies, natural gas, oil, certain
            minerals and mineral rights and certain other assets) now owned by
            the Company, with certain exceptions.

     10. Consideration received for each security.

           Not applicable.

     11. Application of proceeds of each security.

           The Bonds were deposited with the Trustee in order to partially
            satisfy the sinking fund requirement pursuant to the Indenture of
            Mortgage, dated January 1, 1945 (the Class A Indenture), between the
            Company and JPMorgan Chase Bank. After the Bonds were issued and
            authenticated, the Bonds were immediately canceled as provided in
            the Class A Indenture.

     12.    Indicate by a check after the applicable statement below whether the
            issue, renewal or guaranty of each security was exempt from the
            provisions of Section 6(a) because of:

a. the provisions contained in the first sentence of Section 6(b)

b. the provisions contained in the fourth sentence of Section 6(b)

c. the provisions contained in any rule of the commission other than Rule 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 than 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
            five percentum of the principal amount and par value of the other
            securities of such company then outstanding.

           Not applicable

     14.    If the security or securities are exempt from the provisions of
            Section 6(a) because of the fourth sentence of Section 6(b), name
            the security outstanding on January 1, 1935, pursuant to the terms
            of which the security or securities herein described have been
            issued.

           Not applicable

     15.    If the security or securities are exempt from the provisions of
            Section 6(a) because of any rule of the Commission other than Rule
            48 designate the rule under which exemption is claimed.

           Rule 52


                                 South Carolina Electric & Gas Company


                                 By:      /s/ James E. Swan, IV
                                          -----------------------------------
                                          James E. Swan, IV
                                          Controller

Dated:    June 6, 2003