Exhibit 10(c)

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PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORPORATION
(formerly PP&L, Inc. and Pennsylvania Power & Light Company)

TO

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS

(formerly Bankers Trust Company,
successor to Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York,
formerly Guaranty Trust Company of New York)

As Trustee under PPL Electric Utilities Corporation's
Mortgage and Deed of Trust,
Dated as of October 1, 1945

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Seventy-first Supplemental Indenture

Providing among other things for
First Mortgage Bonds, 4.30% Collateral Series due 2013

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Dated as of May 1, 2003

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Seventy-first Supplemental Indenture

SEVENTY-FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of the lst day of May, 2003 made
and entered into by and between PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORPORATION (formerly
PP&L, Inc. and Pennsylvania Power & Light Company), a corporation of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, whose address is Two North Ninth Street,
Allentown, Pennsylvania 18101 (hereinafter sometimes called the Company), and
DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS (formerly Bankers Trust Company), a
corporation of the State of New York, whose address is 60 Wall Street, New York,
New York 10005 (hereinafter sometimes called the Trustee), as Trustee under the
Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of October 1, 1945 (hereinafter called the
Mortgage and, together with any indentures supplemental thereto, hereinafter
called the Indenture), which Mortgage was executed and delivered by Pennsylvania
Power & Light Company to secure the payment of bonds issued or to be issued
under and in accordance with the provisions of the Mortgage, reference to which
said Mortgage is hereby made, this instrument (hereinafter called the
Seventy-first Supplemental Indenture) being supplemental thereto.

WHEREAS, said Mortgage was or is to be recorded in various Counties in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which Counties include or will include all
Counties in which this Seventy-first Supplemental Indenture is to be recorded;
and

WHEREAS, by amendment to its Articles of Incorporation filed in the Office of
the Secretary of State of Pennsylvania on September 12, 1997, the Company
changed its name to PP&L, Inc.; and

WHEREAS, by an amendment to its Articles of Incorporation filed with the Office
of the Secretary of State of Pennsylvania on February 14, 2001, the Company
changed its name to PPL Electric Utilities Corporation; and

WHEREAS, an instrument, dated August 5, 1994, was executed by the Company
appointing Bankers Trust Company as Trustee in succession to said Morgan
Guaranty Trust Company of New York (resigned) under the Indenture, and by
Bankers Trust Company accepting said appointment, which instrument was or is to
be recorded in various Counties in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and

WHEREAS, by an amendment to its Articles of Incorporation filed in the office of
the Secretary of State of New York, effective April 15, 2002, the Trustee
changed its name to Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas; and

WHEREAS, by the Mortgage the Company covenanted that it would execute and
deliver such supplemental indenture or indentures and such further instruments
and do such further acts as might be necessary or proper to carry out more
effectually the purposes of the Indenture and to make subject to the lien of the
Indenture any property thereafter acquired and intended to be subject to the
lien thereof; and

WHEREAS, the Company executed and delivered as supplements to the Mortgage, the
following supplemental indentures:

Designation

Dated as of

First Supplemental Indenture

July 1, 1947

Second Supplemental Indenture

December 1, 1948

Third Supplemental Indenture

February 1, 1950

Fourth Supplemental Indenture

March 1, 1953

Fifth Supplemental Indenture

August 1, 1955

Sixth Supplemental Indenture

December 1, 1961

Seventh Supplemental Indenture

March 1, 1964

Eighth Supplemental Indenture

June 1, 1966

Ninth Supplemental Indenture

November 1, 1967

Tenth Supplemental Indenture

December 1, 1967

Eleventh Supplemental Indenture

January 1, 1969

Twelfth Supplemental Indenture

June 1, 1969

Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture

March 1, 1970

Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture

February 1, 1971

Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture

February 1, 1972

Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture

January 1, 1973

Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture

May 1, 1973

Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture

April 1, 1974

Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture

October 1, 1974

Twentieth Supplemental Indenture

May 1, 1975

Twenty-first Supplemental Indenture

November 1, 1975

Twenty-second Supplemental Indenture

December 1, 1976

Twenty-third Supplemental Indenture

December 1, 1977

Twenty-fourth Supplemental Indenture

April 1, 1979

Twenty-fifth Supplemental Indenture

April 1, 1980

Twenty-sixth Supplemental Indenture

June 1, 1980

Twenty-seventh Supplemental Indenture

June 1, 1980

Twenty-eighth Supplemental Indenture

December 1, 1980

Twenty-ninth Supplemental Indenture

February 1, 1981

Thirtieth Supplemental Indenture

February 1, 1981

Thirty-first Supplemental Indenture

September 1, 1981

Thirty-second Supplemental Indenture

April 1, 1982

Thirty-third Supplemental Indenture

August 1, 1982

Thirty-fourth Supplemental Indenture

October 1, 1982

Thirty-fifth Supplemental Indenture

November 1, 1982

Thirty-sixth Supplemental Indenture

February 1, 1983

Thirty-seventh Supplemental Indenture

November 1, 1983

Thirty-eighth Supplemental Indenture

March 1, 1984

Thirty-ninth Supplemental Indenture

April 1, 1984

Fortieth Supplemental Indenture

August 15, 1984

Forty-first Supplemental Indenture

December 1, 1984

Forty-second Supplemental Indenture

June 15, 1985

Forty-third Supplemental Indenture

October 1, 1985

Forty-fourth Supplemental Indenture

January 1, 1986

Forty-fifth Supplemental Indenture

February 1, 1986

Forty-sixth Supplemental Indenture

April 1, 1986

Forty-seventh Supplemental Indenture

October 1, 1986

Forty-eighth Supplemental Indenture

March 1, 1988

Forty-ninth Supplemental Indenture

June 1, 1988

Fiftieth Supplemental Indenture

January 1, 1989

Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture

October 1, 1989

Fifty-second Supplemental Indenture

July 1, 1991

Fifty-third Supplemental Indenture

May 1, 1992

Fifty-fourth Supplemental Indenture

November 1, 1992

Fifty-fifth Supplemental Indenture

February 1, 1993

Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture

April 1, 1993

Fifty-seventh Supplemental Indenture

June 1, 1993

Fifty-eighth Supplemental Indenture

October 1, 1993

Fifty-ninth Supplemental Indenture

February 15, 1994

Sixtieth Supplemental Indenture

March 1, 1994

Sixty-first Supplemental Indenture

March 15, 1994

Sixty-second Supplemental Indenture

September 1, 1994

Sixty-third Supplemental Indenture

October 1, 1994

Sixty-fourth Supplemental Indenture

August 1, 1995

Sixty-fifth Supplemental Indenture

April 1, 1997

Sixty-sixth Supplemental Indenture

May 1, 1998

Sixty-seventh Supplemental Indenture

June 1, 1999

Sixty-eighth Supplemental Indenture

August 1, 2001

Sixty-ninth Supplemental Indenture

January 1, 2002

Seventieth Supplemental Indenture

February 1, 2003

which supplemental indentures were or are to be recorded in various Counties in
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and

WHEREAS, the Company executed and delivered its Supplemental Indenture, dated
July 1, 1954, creating a security interest in certain personal property of the
Company, pursuant to the provisions of the Pennsylvania Uniform Commercial Code,
as a supplement to the Mortgage, which Supplemental Indenture was filed in the
Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on July 1, 1954, and
all subsequent supplemental indentures were so filed; and

WHEREAS, in addition to the property described in the Mortgage, as heretofore
supplemented, the Company has acquired certain other property, rights and
interests in property; and

WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore issued, in accordance with the provisions of
the Mortgage, as supplemented, the following series of First Mortgage Bonds:

Series

Principal
Amount
Issued

Principal
Amount
Outstanding

3% Series due 1975

$93,000,000

None

2-3/4% Series due 1977

20,000,000

None

3-1/4% Series due 1978

10,000,000

None

2-3/4% Series due 1980

37,000,000

None

3-1/2% Series due 1983

25,000,000

None

3-3/8% Series due 1985

25,000,000

None

4-5/8% Series due 1991

30,000,000

None

4-5/8% Series due 1994

30,000,000

None

5-5/8% Series due 1996

30,000,000

None

6-3/4% Series due 1997

30,000,000

None

6-1/2% Series due 1972

15,000,000

None

7% Series due 1999

40,000,000

None

8-1/8% Series due June 1, 1999

40,000,000

None

9% Series due 2000

50,000,000

None

7-1/4% Series due 2001

60,000,000

None

7-5/8% Series due 2002

75,000,000

None

7-1/2% Series due 2003

80,000,000

None

Pollution Control Series A

28,000,000

None

9-1/4% Series due 2004

80,000,000

None

10-1/8% Series due 1982

100,000,000

None

9-3/4% Series due 2005

125,000,000

None

9-3/4% Series due November 1, 2005

100,000,000

None

8-1/4% Series due 2006

150,000,000

None

8-1/2% Series due 2007

100,000,000

None

9-7/8% Series due 1983-1985

100,000,000

None

15-5/8% Series due 2010

100,000,000

None

11-3/4% Series due 1984

30,000,000

None

Pollution Control Series B

70,000,000

None

Pollution Control Series C

20,000,000

None

14% Series due December 1, 1990

125,000,000

None

15% Series due 1984-1986

50,000,000

None

14-3/4% Series A due 1986

30,000,000

None

14-3/4% Series B due 1986

20,000,000

None

16-1/2% Series due 1987-1991

$52,000,000

None

16-1/8% Series due 1992

100,000,000

None

16-1/2% Series due 1986-1990

92,500,000

None

13-1/4% Series due 2012

100,000,000

None

Pollution Control Series D

70,000,000

None

12-1/8% Series due 1989-1993

50,000,000

None

13-1/8% Series due 2013

125,000,000

None

Pollution Control Series E

37,750,000

None

13-1/2% Series due 1994

125,000,000

None

Pollution Control Series F

115,500,000

None

12-3/4% Series due 2014

125,000,000

None

Pollution Control Series G

55,000,000

None

12% Series due 2015

125,000,000

None

10-7/8% Series due 2016

125,000,000

None

9-5/8% Series due 1996

125,000,000

None

9% Series due 2016

125,000,000

None

9-1/2% Series due 2016

125,000,000

None

9-1/4% Series due 1998

125,000,000

None

9-5/8% Series due 1998

125,000,000

None

10% Series due 2019

125,000,000

None

9-1/4% Series due 2019

250,000,000

None

9-3/8% Series due 2021

150,000,000

None

7-3/4% Series due 2002

150,000,000

None

8-1/2% Series due 2022

150,000,000

None

Pollution Control Series H

90,000,000

None

6-7/8% Series due 2003

100,000,000

None

7-7/8% Series due 2023

200,000,000

None

5-1/2% Series due 1998

150,000,000

None

6-1/2% Series due 2005

125,000,000

110,000,000

6% Series due 2000

125,000,000

None

6-3/4% Series due 2023

150,000,000

19,497,000

Pollution Control Series I

53,250,000

53,250,000

6.55% Series due 2006

150,000,000

146,000,000

7.30% Series due 2024

150,000,000

5,805,000

6-7/8% Series due 2004

150,000,000

24,767,000

7-3/8% Series due 2014

100,000,000

10,290,000

Pollution Control Series J

115,500,000

115,500,000

7.70% Series due 2009

200,000,000

325,000

Pollution Control Series K

55,000,000

55,000,000

Short-Term Series A

800,000,000

None

6 1/8% REset Put Securities Series due 2006

200,000,000

None

Short-Term Series B

600,000,000

None

5-7/8% Series due August 15, 2007

300,000,000

300,000,000

6-1/4% Series due August 15, 2009

500,000,000

500,000,000

3.125% Pollution Control Series due 2008

90,000,000

90,000,000

which bonds are also sometimes called bonds of the First through Seventy-eighth
Series, respectively; and

WHEREAS, Section 8 of the Mortgage provides that the form of each series of
bonds (other than the First Series) issued thereunder shall be established by
Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company and that the form of such
series, as established by said Board of Directors, shall specify the descriptive
title of the bonds and various other terms thereof, and may also contain such
provisions not inconsistent with the provisions of the Indenture as the Board of
Directors may, in its discretion, cause to be inserted therein expressing or
referring to the terms and conditions upon which such bonds are to be issued
and/or secured under the Indenture; and

WHEREAS, Section 120 of the Mortgage provides, among other things, that any
power, privilege or right expressly or impliedly reserved to or in any way
conferred upon the Company by any provision of the Indenture, whether such
power, privilege or right is in any way restricted or is unrestricted, may be in
whole or in part waived or surrendered or subjected to any restriction if at the
time unrestricted or to additional restriction if already restricted, and the
Company may enter into any future covenants, limitations or restrictions for the
benefit of any one or more series of bonds issued thereunder, or the Company may
cure any ambiguity contained therein or in any supplemental indenture or may
establish the terms and provisions of any series of bonds other than said First
Series, by an instrument in writing executed and acknowledged by the Company in
such manner as would be necessary to entitle a conveyance of real estate to
record in all of the States in which any property at the time subject to the
lien of the Indenture shall be situated; and

WHEREAS, the Company now desires to create a new series of bonds and to add to
its covenants and agreements contained in the Mortgage, as heretofore
supplemented, certain other covenants and agreements to be observed by it and to
alter and amend in certain respects the covenants and provisions contained in
the Mortgage; and

WHEREAS, the execution and delivery by the Company of this Seventy-first
Supplemental Indenture, and the terms of the bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series,
hereinafter referred to, have been duly authorized by the Board of Directors of
the Company by appropriate Resolutions of said Board of Directors;

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH: That PPL Electric Utilities
Corporation, in consideration of the premises and of One Dollar to it duly paid
by the Trustee at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the
receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and in further evidence of assurance of
the estate, title and rights of the Trustee and in order further to secure the
payment both of the principal of and interest and premium, if any, on the bonds
from time to time issued under the Indenture, according to their tenor and
effect and the performance of all the provisions of the Indenture (including any
modification made as in the Mortgage provided) and of said bonds, hereby grants,
bargains, sells, releases, conveys, assigns, transfers, mortgages, pledges, sets
over and confirms (subject, however, to Excepted Encumbrances as defined in
Section 6 of the Mortgage) unto Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee
under the Indenture, and to its successor or successors in said trust, and to
said Trustee and its successors and assigns forever, all property, real,
personal and mixed, of the kind or nature specifically mentioned in the
Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, or of any other kind or nature, acquired
by the Company after the date of the execution and delivery of the Seventieth
Supplemental Indenture (except any herein or in the Mortgage, as heretofore
supplemented, expressly excepted and except any which may not lawfully be
mortgaged or pledged under the Indenture), now owned or, subject to the
provisions of Section 87 of the Mortgage, hereafter acquired by the Company (by
purchase, consolidation, merger, donation, construction, erection or in any
other way) and wheresoever situated, including (without in anywise limiting or
impairing by the enumeration of the same the scope and intent of the foregoing)
all lands, power sites, flowage rights, water rights, water locations, water
appropriations, ditches, flumes, reservoirs, reservoir sites, canals, raceways,
dams, dam sites, aqueducts, and all other rights or means for appropriating,
conveying, storing and supplying water; all rights of way and roads; all plants
for the generation of electricity by steam, water and/or other power; all power
houses, gas plants, street lighting systems, standards and other equipment
incidental thereto, telephone, radio and television systems, air-conditioning
systems and equipment incidental thereto, water works, water systems, steam heat
and hot water plants, substations, lines, service and supply systems, bridges,
culverts, tracks, ice or refrigeration plants and equipment, offices, buildings
and other structures and the equipment thereof; all machinery, engines, boilers,
dynamos, electric, gas and other machines, regulators, meters, transformers,
generators, motors, electrical, gas and mechanical appliances, conduits, cables,
water, steam heat, gas or other pipes, gas mains and pipes, service pipes,
fittings, valves and connections, pole and transmission lines, wires, cables,
tools, implements, apparatus, furniture and chattels; all municipal and other
franchises, consents or permits; all lines for the transmission and distribution
of electric current, gas, steam heat or water for any purpose including towers,
poles, wires, cables, pipes, conduits, ducts and all apparatus for use in
connection therewith; all real estate, lands, easements, servitudes, licenses,
permits, franchises, privileges, rights of way and other rights in or relating
to real estate or the occupancy of the same and (except as herein or in the
Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, expressly excepted) all the right, title
and interest of the Company in and to all other property of any kind or nature
appertaining to and/or used and/or occupied and/or enjoyed in connection with
any property hereinbefore or in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented,
described;

TOGETHER with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments, prescriptions,
servitudes, and appurtenances belonging or in anywise appertaining to the
aforesaid property or any part thereof, with the reversion and reversions,
remainder and remainders and (subject to the provisions of Section 57 of the
Mortgage) the tolls, rents, revenues, issues, earnings, income, product and
profits thereof, and all the estate, right, title and interest and claim
whatsoever, at law as well as in equity, which the Company now has or may
hereafter acquire in and to the aforesaid property and franchises and every part
and parcel thereof;

IT IS HEREBY AGREED by the Company that, subject to the provisions of Section 87
of the Mortgage and to the extent permitted by law, all the property, rights,
and franchises acquired by the Company (by purchase, consolidation, merger,
donation, construction, erection or in any other way) after the date hereof,
except any herein or in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, expressly
excepted, shall be and are as fully granted and conveyed hereby and as fully
embraced within the lien hereof and the lien of the Indenture, as if such
property, rights and franchises were now owned by the Company and were
specifically described herein and conveyed hereby; and

IT IS HEREBY DECLARED by the Company that all the property, rights and
franchises now owned or hereafter acquired by the Company have been, or are, or
will be owned or acquired with the intention to use the same in carrying on the
business or branches of business of the Company, and it is hereby declared that
it is the intention of the Company that all thereof, except any herein or in the
Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, expressly excepted, shall (subject to the
provisions of Section 87 of the Mortgage and to the extent permitted by law) be
embraced within the lien of this Seventy-first Supplemental Indenture and the
lien of the Indenture;

PROVIDED that the following are not and are not intended to be now or hereafter
granted, bargained, sold, released, conveyed, assigned, transferred, mortgaged,
pledged, set over or confirmed hereunder and are hereby expressly excepted from
the lien and operation of this Seventy-first Supplemental Indenture and from the
lien and operation of the Indenture, viz: (1) cash, shares of stock, bonds,
notes and other obligations and other securities not hereafter specifically
pledged, paid, deposited, delivered or held under the Indenture or covenanted so
to be; (2) goods, wares, merchandise, equipment, apparatus, materials, or
supplies held for the purpose of sale or other disposition in the usual course
of business; fuel, oil and similar materials and supplies consumable in the
operation of any of the properties of the Company; construction equipment
acquired for temporary use; all aircraft, rolling stock, trolley coaches, buses,
motor coaches, automobiles and other vehicles and materials and supplies held
for the purposes of repairing or replacing (in whole or part) any of the same;
all timber, minerals, mineral rights and royalties; (3) bills, notes and
accounts receivable, judgments, demands and choses in action, and all contracts,
leases and operating agreements not specifically pledged under the Indenture or
covenanted so to be; the Company's contractual rights or other interest in or
with respect to tires not owned by the Company; (4) the last day of the term of
any lease or leasehold which may be or become subject to the lien of the
Indenture; (5) electric energy, gas, steam, ice, and other materials or products
generated, manufactured, produced or purchased by the Company for sale,
distribution or use in the ordinary course of its business and (6) any property
released from the lien of the Mortgage pursuant to Sections 58, 59, 60, 62 or 63
of the Mortgage; provided, however, that the property and rights expressly
excepted from the lien and operation of the Indenture in the above subdivisions
(2) and (3) shall (to the extent permitted by law) cease to be so excepted in
the event and as of the date that the Trustee or a receiver or trustee shall
enter upon and take possession of the Mortgaged and Pledged Property in the
manner provided in Article XIII of the Mortgage by reason of the occurrence of a
Default as defined in Section 65 thereof, as supplemented by the provisions of
this Seventy-first Supplemental Indenture;

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all such properties, real, personal and mixed, granted,
bargained, sold, released, conveyed, assigned, transferred, mortgaged, pledged,
set over or confirmed by the Company as aforesaid, or intended so to be, unto
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee, and its successors and assigns
forever;

IN TRUST NEVERTHELESS for the same purposes and upon the same terms, trusts and
conditions and subject to and with the same provisos and covenants as are set
forth in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, this Seventy-first
Supplemental Indenture being supplemental to the Mortgage;

AND IT IS HEREBY COVENANTED by the Company that all the terms, conditions,
provisos, covenants and provisions contained in the Mortgage, as heretofore
supplemented, shall affect and apply to the property hereinbefore described and
conveyed and to the estate, rights, obligations and duties of the Company and
the Trustee and the beneficiaries of the trust with respect to said property,
and to the Trustee and its successors as Trustee of said property in the same
manner and with the same effect as if the said property had been owned by the
Company at the time of the execution of the Mortgage, and had been specifically
and at length described in and conveyed to the Trustee by the Mortgage as a part
of the property therein stated to be conveyed.

The Company further covenants and agrees to and with the Trustee and its
successors in said trust under the Indenture, as follows:

ARTICLE I.

Seventy-ninth Series of Bonds

SECTION 1.   There shall be a series of bonds designated "First Mortgage Bonds,
4.30% Collateral Series due 2013" (herein sometimes referred to as the
"Seventy-ninth Series"), each of which shall also bear the descriptive title
First Mortgage Bonds, and the form thereof, which shall be established by
Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company, shall contain suitable
provisions with respect to the matters hereinafter in this Section specified.
Bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series shall be limited to $100 million in aggregate
principal amount, except as provided in Section 16 of the Mortgage, and shall be
issued as fully registered bonds in denominations of One Thousand Dollars and in
any multiple or multiples of One Thousand Dollars; each bond of the
Seventy-ninth Series shall mature on June 1, 2013, shall bear interest at the
rate of 4.30% per annum, payable semi-annually on June 1 and December 1 of each
year; the principal of and interest on each said bond to be payable at the
office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York, and interest on each said bond to be also payable at the office of the
Company in the City of Allentown, Pennsylvania, in such coin or currency of the
United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for public
and private debts. Bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series shall be dated as in
Section 10 of the Mortgage provided.

The bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series shall be issued by the Company, registered
in the name of and delivered to JPMorgan Chase Bank, as trustee (the "2001
Trustee") under an Indenture dated as of August 1, 2001 (the "2001 Indenture"),
to provide for the payment when due (whether at maturity, by acceleration or
otherwise) of the principal and interest of the Securities (as defined in the
2001 Indenture) to be issued from time to time under the 2001 Indenture.

The bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series shall not be transferable by the 2001
Trustee, except to a successor trustee under the 2001 Indenture. Bonds of the
Seventy-ninth Series so transferable to a successor trustee under the 2001
Indenture may be transferred at the principal office of the Trustee in the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York.

Any payment by the Company under the 2001 Indenture of the principal of or
premium, if any, or interest, if any on the securities which shall been
authenticated and delivered under the 2001 Indenture on the basis of the
issuance and delivery to the 2001 Trustee of bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series
(other than by the application of the proceeds of a payment in respect of such
bonds) shall, to the extent hereof, be deemed to satisfy and discharge the
obligation of the Company, if any, to make a payment of principal of, or
premium, or interest on such bonds, as the case may be, which is then due.

The Trustee may conclusively presume that the obligation of the Company to pay
the principal of or interest on the bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series as the
same shall become due and payable shall have been fully satisfied and discharged
unless and until it shall have received a written notice from the 2001 Trustee,
signed by an authorized officer thereof, stating that the principal of or
interest on specified bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series has become due and
payable and has not been fully paid, and specifying the amount of funds required
to make such payment.

(I) Each holder of a bond of the Seventy-ninth Series consents that the bonds of
the Seventy-ninth Series may be redeemable at the option of the Company or
pursuant to the requirements of the Indenture in whole at any time, or in part
from time to time, prior to maturity, without notice provided in Section 52 of
the Mortgage, at the principal amount of the bonds to be redeemed, in each case,
together with accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption by the Company
in a notice delivered on or before the date fixed for redemption by the Company
to the Trustee and to the holders of the bonds to be redeemed.

(II) The bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series shall also be redeemable, in whole at
any time, or in part from time to time, prior to maturity, at a redemption price
equal to the principal amount thereof, together with accrued and unpaid interest
to the date of payment of such principal amount, upon receipt by the Trustee of
a written notice from the 2001 Trustee (i) delivered to the Trustee and the
Company, (ii) signed by its President or any Vice President, (iii) stating that
an Event of Default has occurred under the 2001 Indenture and is continuing and
that, as a result, there then is due and payable a specified amount with respect
to the Securities Outstanding under the 2001 Indenture, for the payment of which
the 2001 Trustee has not received funds, and (iv) specifying the principal
amount of the bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series to be redeemed. Delivery of such
notice shall constitute a waiver by the 2001 Trustee of notice of redemption
under the Indenture.

(III) At the option of the registered owner, any bonds of the Seventy-ninth
Series, upon surrender thereof, for cancellation, at the office or agency of the
Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, shall be exchangeable
for a like aggregate principal amount of bonds of the same series, interest
rate, maturity and other terms of other authorized denominations.

Subject to the provisions of the third paragraph of this Section 1, Bonds of the
Seventy-ninth Series shall be transferable, upon the surrender thereof for
cancellation, together with a written instrument of transfer in form approved by
the registrar duly executed by the registered owner or by his duly authorized
attorney, at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan,
The City of New York; provided that such transfer shall not result in any
security being required to be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Company to such effect
shall have been provided to the Company.

The bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series shall not be redeemable by the application
of cash deposited with the Trustee pursuant to the provisions of Section 64.

Upon any transfer or exchange of bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series, the Company
may make a charge therefor sufficient to reimburse it for any tax or taxes or
other governmental charge, as provided in Section 12 of the Mortgage, but the
Company hereby waives any right to make a charge in addition thereto for any
exchange or transfer of bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series.

ARTICLE II.

Miscellaneous Provisions

SECTION 2.   The Company reserves the right to make such amendments to the
Mortgage, as supplemented, as shall be necessary in order to delete subsection
(I) of Section 39 of the Mortgage, and each holder of bonds of the Seventy-ninth
Series hereby consents to such deletion without any other or further action by
any holder of bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series.

SECTION 3.   The terms defined in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented,
shall, for all purposes of this Seventy-first Supplemental Indenture, have the
meanings specified in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented.

SECTION 4.   Whenever in this Seventy-first Supplemental Indenture either of the
parties hereto is named or referred to, this shall, subject to the provisions of
Articles XVI and XVII of the Mortgage, be deemed to include the successors and
assigns of such party, and all the covenants and agreements in this
Seventy-first Supplemental Indenture contained by or on behalf of the Company,
or by or on behalf of the Trustee shall, subject as aforesaid, bind and inure to
the respective benefits of the respective successors and assigns of such
parties, whether so expressed or not.

SECTION 5.   So long as any bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series and remain
Outstanding, unless this provision shall have been waived in writing by the
holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of bonds of the
Seventy-ninth Series Outstanding at the time of such consent, subdivision (c) of
Section 65 of the Mortgage shall read as follows:

"(c) Failure to pay interest or premium, if any, upon or principal (whether at
maturity as therein expressed or by declaration, or otherwise) of any
Outstanding Qualified Lien Bonds or of any outstanding indebtedness secured by
any mortgage or other lien (not included in the term Excepted Encumbrances)
prior to the lien of this Indenture, existing upon any property of the Company
which is subject to the lien and operation of this Indenture continued beyond
the period of grace, if any, specified in such mortgage or Qualified Lien or
other lien securing the same;"

SECTION 6.   A breach of a specified covenant or agreement of the Company
contained in this Seventy-first Supplemental Indenture shall become a Default
under the Indenture upon the happening of the events provided in Section 65(g)
of the Mortgage with respect to such a covenant or agreement.

SECTION 7.   The Trustee hereby accepts the trusts herein declared, provided,
created or supplemented and agrees to perform the same upon the terms and
conditions herein and in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, set forth and
upon the following terms and conditions:

The Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect
of the validity or sufficiency of this Seventy-first Supplemental Indenture or
for or in respect of the recitals contained herein, all of which recitals are
made by the Company solely. Each and every term and condition contained in
Article XVII of the Mortgage, as heretofore amended by said First through
Seventieth Supplemental Indentures, shall apply to and form part of this
Seventy-first Supplemental Indenture with the same force and effect as if the
same were herein set forth in full with such omissions, variations and
insertions, if any, as may be appropriate to make the same conform to the
provisions of this Seventy-first Supplemental Indenture.

SECTION 8.   Nothing in this Seventy-first Supplemental Indenture, expressed or
implied, is intended, or shall be construed, to confer upon, or to give to, any
person, firm or corporation, other than the parties hereto and the holders of
the bonds and coupons Outstanding under the Indenture, any right, remedy or
claim under or by reason of this Seventy-first Supplemental Indenture or by any
covenant, condition, stipulation, promise or agreement hereof, and all the
covenants, conditions, stipulations, promises and agreements in this
Seventy-first Supplemental Indenture contained by or on behalf of the Company
shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties hereto, and of the
holders of the bonds and coupons Outstanding under the Indenture.

SECTION 9.   This Seventy-first Supplemental Indenture shall be executed in
several counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which shall
constitute but one and the same instrument.

PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORPORATION does hereby constitute and appoint JAMES E.
ABEL, Treasurer of PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORPORATION, to be its attorney for
it, and in its name and as and for its corporate act and deed to acknowledge
this Seventy-first Supplemental Indenture before any person having authority by
the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to take such acknowledgment, to the
intent that the same may be duly recorded, and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY
AMERICAS does hereby constitute and appoint Susan Johnson, a Vice President of
DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, to be its attorney for it, and in its name
and as and for its corporate act and deed to acknowledge this Seventy-first
Supplemental Indenture before any person having authority by the laws of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to take such acknowledgment, to the intent that the
same may be duly recorded.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORPORATION has caused its corporate
name to be hereunto affixed, and this instrument to be signed and sealed by its
President, one of its Vice Presidents or its Treasurer, and its corporate seal
to be attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries for and in
its behalf, in the City of Allentown, Pennsylvania, and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST
COMPANY AMERICAS has caused its corporate name to be hereunto affixed, and this
instrument to be signed and sealed by one of its Principals, Vice Presidents,
Trust Officers or Associates, and its corporate seal to be attested by one of
its Vice Presidents, Assistant Vice Presidents, Trust Officers or Associates, in
The City of New York, as of the day and year first above written.

     

PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORPORATION

     

By:   /s/  James E. Abel                                                       
        Name: James E. Abel
        Title: Treasurer

Attest:

  /s/ Diane M. Koch                  
Assistant Secretary

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DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS

By: /s/ Susan
Johnson                                                              
    Name: Susan Johnson
    Title: Vice President

Attest:

  /s/ Dorothy Robinson                 
Dorothy Robinson
Vice President

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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA

)

 

)    ss.:

COUNTY OF LEHIGH

)

               On this 22nd day of May, 2003, before me, a notary public, the
undersigned, personally appeared JAMES E. ABEL, who acknowledged himself to be
the Treasurer of PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORPORATION, a corporation and that he,
as such Treasurer, being authorized to do so, executed the foregoing instrument
for the purposes therein contained, by signing the name of the corporation by
himself as Treasurer.

               In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and official seal.

   

 /s/ Francine A. Greenzweig                                     
Notary Public

         

NOTARIAL SEAL
FRANCINE A. GREENZWEIG, Notary Public
City of Allentown, Lehigh County, PA
My Commission Expires Oct. 29, 2006

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STATE OF NEW YORK

)

 

)    ss.:

COUNTY OF NEW YORK

)

               On this 23rd day of May, 2003, before me, a notary public, the
undersigned, personally appeared Susan Johnson, who acknowledged herself to be a
Vice President of DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY Americas, a corporation and that
she, as such Vice President, being authorized to do so, executed the foregoing
instrument for the purposes therein contained, by signing the name of the
corporation by herself as Vice President.

               In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and official seal.

   

 /s/ Annie Jaghatspanyan                                
Notary Public

         

Annie Jaghatspanyan
Notary Public, State of New York
No. 01JA6062022
Qualified in New York County
Commission Expires July 30, 2005

               Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas hereby certifies that its
precise name and address as Trustee hereunder are:

 

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS

Corporate Trust and Agency Services
60 Wall Street, MS NYC60-2515
New York, New York 10005

             

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS

               

By: /s/ Susan Johnson                                             
       Name:  Susan Johnson
       Title:  Vice President