Exhibit 4(b)

ACT OF CORRECTION TO MORTGAGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

STATE OF LOUISIANA 

PARISH OF ORLEANS

BE IT KNOWN, that on the 20th day of March, 2008, before me,the undersigned Notary Public, duly commissioned and qualified:

PERSONALLY CAME AND APPEARED:

Entergy Texas, Inc., a Texas corporation (together with itsrespective permitted successors and assigns, "Mortgagor" or "ETI") (the lastfour digits of its E.I.N. being 5798), having an address at 350 Pine Street,Beaumont, Texas 77701, appearing herein by and through Steven C. McNeal, itsVice President and Treasurer, duly authorized pursuant to a resolution of itsboard of directors, a certified extract of which is attached to the Mortgage (ashereinafter defined);

and 

Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, L.L.C., a Louisiana limitedliability company domiciled in the Parish of East Baton Rouge ("EGSL L.L.C." or"Mortgagee"), having an address at 446 North Boulevard, Baton Rouge, Louisiana70802-5717, the last four digits of its E.I.N. being 2730), appearing hereinthrough Steven C. McNeal, its Vice President and Treasurer duly authorizedpursuant to the Unanimous Written Consent of the Board of Directors (theManagers) of Mortgagee dated December 31, 2007, a certified extract of which isattached hereto;

WHO DECLARED AND ACKNOWLEDGED THAT:

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3. As recited in the Mortgage, EGS-Louisiana, formerly known asEntergy Gulf States, Inc. ("EGSI"), heretofore entered into the indentures andissued series of outstanding debt listed on Schedule A to the Mortgage (the"Outstanding Debt"). 

4. As further recited in the Mortgage, Mortgagor assumedcertain liabilities of EGS-Louisiana on the Outstanding Debt on the terms and tothe extent forth in that certain Debt Assumption Agreement entered into betweenMortgagor and EGS-Louisiana dated December 31, 2007 (the "AssumptionAgreement"). Under the Assumption Agreement, Mortgagor assumed the obligationsof EGS-Louisiana to the pay to the applicable trustee of each series of theOutstanding Debt the "Assumed Amounts" which are listed, in dollar amounts, onSchedule 1 of the Assumption Agreement and which are likewise listed on ScheduleA of the Mortgage. 

5. As a result of the LA Merger, EGSL L.L.C. is the successorto EGS-Louisiana under the Assumption Agreement, and the Mortgage secures theobligations of Mortgagor to EGSL L.L.C. under the Assumption Agreement and theobligations of Mortgagor to EGSL L.L.C. under the Mortgage (collectively, and asdefined in the Mortgage, the "Obligations") up to the maximum amount of TwoBillion Dollars ($2,000,000,000) that may be outstanding at any time and fromtime to time.

6. Mortgagor and Mortgagee declared that pursuant to theJurisdictional Separation (as defined in the Mortgage), the Assumed Amounts setforth in Schedule 1 of the Assumption Agreement and in Schedule A of theMortgage should have been based upon the balance sheet of EGSI as of December31, 2007, but that by mutual mistake, the Assumed Amounts listed on Schedule 1to the Assumption Agreement and Schedule A to the Mortgage were based upon thebalance sheet of EGSI as of September 30, 2007.

6. By Instrument of Correction dated as of March 20, 2008,Mortgagor and Mortgagee corrected the Assumption Agreement to reflect the mutualintention of the parties that the Assumed Amounts be based on the balance sheetof EGSI as of December 31, 2007, and Schedule 1 of the Assumption Agreement wasthereby corrected to change the dollar amounts of the Assumed Amounts to reflectthe balance sheet of EGSI as of December 31, 2007. Mortgagor and Mortgageedesire likewise to correct the Mortgage accordingly to provide that the Mortgagesecures the obligations of Mortgagor to Mortgagee under the AssumptionAgreement, as corrected by the Instrument of Correction dated as of March 20,2008, and further desire, in accordance with the Instrument of Correction, toreplace Schedule A to the Mortgage with Schedule A attached hereto. 

7. Mortgagor and Mortgagee further declared that a clericalerror appears in the Mortgage, on the nineteenth page of Schedule B, under PartIII, "Other Property," sub-part A, fourth line, where the figure "14.875%"should read "17.85%" and that, accordingly, lines four and five of sub-part A,"Other Property," on page 19 of Schedule B, should read, in pertinent part, ". ... .(ii) its 17.85% interest in the Joint Facilities of Big Cajun No. 2, CoalUnit # 3. . . .."

NOW, THEREFORE, Mortgagor and Mortgagee do hereby reform andcorrect the Mortgage as follows: 

1. Where the terms "Debt Assumption Agreement" or "AssumptionAgreement" are used in the Mortgage, they shall refer to the Debt AssumptionAgreement entered into between Mortgagor and Mortgagee dated December 31, 2007,as corrected by the Instrument of Correction dated as of March 20, 2008, and asthe Debt Assumption Agreement may be further modified, amended, revised,modified, corrected or restated. Accordingly, the first two lines of page 3 ofthe Mortgage are corrected to read as follows: "the Debt Assumption Agreemententered into between Mortgagor and Mortgagee, dated December 31, 2007, ascorrected by the Instrument of Correction dated as of March 20, 2008, and as theDebt Assumption Agreement may be further modified, amended, revised, modified,corrected or restated (the "Assumption Agreement"). 

2. Schedule A attached hereto is hereby substituted forSchedule A that was attached to the Mortgage executed on December 31, 2007. Theattached Schedule A changes the Assumed Amounts to reflect the Assumed Amountsin accordance with the Instrument of Correction dated as of March 20, 2008, andis in all other respects the same as Schedule A that was attached to Mortgageexecuted on December 31, 2007.

3. #9; On the nineteenth page of Schedule B of the Mortgageunder Part III, "Other Property," sub-part A, fourth line, the figure "14.875%"is deleted and the figure "17.85%"is substituted in its place, so that thenineteenth page of Schedule B under Part III, "Other Property," sub-part A,lines four and five shall read as follows in pertinent part: ". . . ..(ii) its17.85% interest in the Joint Facilities of Big Cajun No. 2, Coal Unit # 3 . . ...". A corrected page 19 of Schedule B, with the corrected language underscored,is attached hereto as Schedule"B-1" and made a part hereof. 

4. Except as corrected hereby, all other provisions of theMortgage remain unchanged.

5. The parties request that the Clerks of Court for theParishes of Calcasieu and Pointe Coupee make notation of this Act of Correctionin the margin of the records of their respective offices where the Mortgage isrecorded, in the mortgage records of the Parish of Calcasieu under File Number2850707, Book 3481, Page 599 and in the mortgage records of the Parish of PointeCoupee under MB 412, No. 084, to serve as the occasion may require.

6. This Act of Correction shall be deemed effective as ofDecember 31, 2007.

THUS DONE AND PASSED, on the 20th day of March, 2008, in theState of Louisiana, Parish of Orleans, by the undersigned Mortgagor and theundersigned Mortgagee in the presence of the undersigned Notary and theundersigned competent witnesses, who hereunto sign their names with Mortgagorand Mortgagee after reading of the whole.

/s/ Jennifer Favalora