Exhibit 99(a)

|Quarterly Servicer's Certificate
        PPL Transition Bond Company, LLC
        $2,420,000,000 Transition Bonds, Series 1999-1Pursuant to Section 4 of Annex 1
        the Intangible Transition Property Servicing Agreement dated as of August
        10, 1999 (the "Servicing Agreement") between PPL Electric Utilities Corporation,
        as Servicer and PPL Transition Bond Company, LLC, as Issuer, the Servicer
        does hereby certify as follows:

      
      Capitalized terms used in the Quarterly Servicer's Certificate
        (the "Quarterly Certificate") have their respective meanings as set forth
        in the Servicing Agreement. References herein to the "Indenture" are to
        the Indenture dated as of August 10, 1999 between PPL Transition Bond
        Company, LLC, as issuer and The Bank of New York as Trustee.
      
      Billing Periods: June 2002, July 2002, August 2002
     Payment Date: September 25, 2002
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|1.                                                                                                                                                  | Collections Allocable and Aggregate Amounts Available for the Current
        Payment Date:                                                                               
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|2.                                                                                                                                                  | Outstanding Principal Balance and Collection Account Balance as of
        Prior Payment Date:                                                                            
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|3.                                                                                                                                                  | Required Funding/Payments as of Current Payment Date:                                                                                                                     
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|4.                                                                                                                                                  | Allocation of Remittances as of Current Payment Date Pursuant to Section
        8.02(d) of the Indenture:                                                                
|*                                                                                                                                                   | i.                                                                                                                                                                        
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|5.                                                                                                                                                  | Outstanding Principal Balance and Collection Account Balance as of
        Current Payment Date
        (after giving effect to payments to be made on such payment date):
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|6.                                                                                                                                                  | Subaccount Draws as of Current Payment Date (if applicable,
        pursuant to Section 8.02(d) of the Indenture):                                                        
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|7.                                                                                                                                                  | Shortfalls In Interest and Principal Payments as of Current Payment
        Date:                                                                                         
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|8.                                                                                                                                                  | Shortfalls in Required Subaccount Levels as of Current Payment Date:                                                                                                      
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|IN WITNESS HEREOF, the undersigned has duly executed
        and delivered this Quarterly Servicer's Bond this 17th day of September,
        2002.
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|PPL Electric Utilities Corporation, as Servicer                                                                                                     |                                                                                                                                                                           
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|by: /s/ James E. Abel                                                                                                                              
|                                                                                                                                                    | James E. Abel                                                                                                                                                             
|                                                                                                                                                    | Treasurer                                                                                                                                                                 





Note: Quarterly allocation of items in 4:
  *    Bank of New York
  **  PPL Electric Utilities Corporation
  ***PPL Transition Bond Company, LLC