# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000720515
**File Stem:** 0001628280-26-029548
**Filing Date:** 2026-5
**Character Count:** 2197
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## Filing Summary
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**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001628280-26-029548

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: CORRESP

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 3

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20260504

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** BASIN ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000720515
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** ELECTRIC SERVICES [4911]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 01 Energy & Transportation
- **EIN:** 450277395
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** ND
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** CORRESP

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 1717 EAST INTERSTATE AVE
- **CITY:** BISMARK
- **STATE:** ND
- **ZIP:** 58501

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May 4, 2026

**<u>VIA EDGAR</u>**

Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549

Attn: Cheryl Brown

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| **Re:** | **Basin Electric Power Cooperative** |
| | **Registration Statement on Form S-4** |
| | **File No. 333-295074** |

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Ladies and Gentlemen:

Pursuant to Rule 461 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Basin Electric Power Cooperative ("<u>Basin Electric</u>") hereby requests that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "<u>Commission</u>") take appropriate action to declare the above-referenced Registration Statement on Form S-4 to become effective on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, at 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time, or as soon as practicable thereafter.

If you have any questions regarding the foregoing, please contact Kyle Drefke of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, counsel to Basin Electric, at (202) 339-8434. Please notify Mr. Drefke when this request for acceleration of effectiveness has been granted.

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| Sincerely, |
| /s/ Christoper A. Johnson |
| Christoper A. Johnson |
| Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |

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| cc: | Todd Brickhouse, Basin Electric Power Cooperative |
| | James Horan, Basin Electric Power Cooperative |
| | Carl Lyon, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP |
| | Kyle Drefke, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP |

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