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October 2, 2006  

Santee Cooper to cancel Pee Dee Stations Site WMA deer Hunts

MONCKS CORNER, S.C.—For safety reasons, Santee Cooper, the state-owned electric and water utility, will cancel its three Pee Dee Station site Wildlife Management Area (WMA) public deer hunts this year.

The hunts were scheduled for Oct. 3-7, Oct. 17-21 and Nov. 7-11.

Contractors are working on the Pee Dee land, surveying the land and performing environmental assessments in order to complete the Pee Dee site permitting work. Santee Cooper does not want to place the numerous contractors in any potentially dangerous areas, and in order to avoid conflicts, the hunts have been cancelled.

Santee Cooper apologizes for the inconvenience.

For more information, please contact Jose Stephens, Santee Cooper’s supervisor of forestry and undeveloped land, at 843-761-8000, ext.5327.

Santee Cooper, based in Moncks Corner, is South Carolina's state-owned electric and water utility and serves more than 154,000 residential and commercial customers in Berkeley, Georgetown and Horry counties. The utility also generates the power distributed by the state's 20 electric cooperatives to more than 665,000 customers in all 46 counties. Santee Cooper is the state’s largest provider of electricity based on energy sales and number of ultimate customers served. More than 2 million South Carolinians receive their power directly or indirectly from Santee Cooper. Based on generation and energy sales, Santee Cooper is the nation’s fourth largest publicly owned electric utility among state, municipal and district systems. The Santee Cooper Regional Water System is the source of water for four Lowcountry water utilities. For more information, visit www.santeecooper.com

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Media Contact for Santee Cooper: Laura G. Varn, Coporate Communications (843)761-4133

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