NEW YORK (Standard&Poor's) July 15, 2008--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services today assigned its preliminary ratings to Louisiana Public Facilities Authority's $278.8 million system restoration bonds (Louisiana Utilities Restoration Corp. project/Entergy Gulf States Inc.) series 2008 (federally taxable) (see list). The preliminary ratings are based on information as of July 15, 2008. Subsequent information may result in the assignment of final ratings that differ from the preliminary ratings. The preliminary ratings reflect the borrower's irrevocable statutory right to impose, collect, and receive the nonbypassable consumption-based system restoration charge and to grant a security interest in that system restoration bond collateral to the issuer. The charge is due from all existing and future Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC) jurisdictional electric
