EXHIBIT 10-50











                             AMENDMENT NO. 10

                                    to

                THE SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT PLAN

                                    of

                 NEW YORK STATE ELECTRIC & GAS CORPORATION




     The Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan of New York State
Electric & Gas Corporation, effective September 7, 1984, is
hereby amended as follows:
     1.   Paragraph 3 is hereby amended to read as follows:
          3.   Provisions Applicable to All Salaried
               Employees Concerning Pension Benefits.
               All employees of the Corporation, other 
               than ones included in a unit of 
               employees covered by a collective 
               bargaining agreement, shall receive the 
               amount of benefits specified under the
               Corporation's tax qualified Retirement 
               Benefit Plan for Employees (i) without 
               regard to any limitations imposed on 
               these pension benefits by any provision 
               of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as 
               amended, and the regulations thereunder, 
               whether now existing or as may hereafter 
               be adopted and (ii) by including as 
               "Basic Compensation" for purposes of 
               said plan any amounts of the salaried 
               employee's compensation that would 
               constitute "Basic Compensation" under 
               said plan but for the salaried 
               employee's election to defer such amount 
               pursuant to the Corporation's Deferred
               Compensation Plan for Salaried Employees
               (hereinafter called the "Deferred 
               Compensation Plan").  Payment of this 
               benefit shall be made in the same form 
               as elected by the salaried employee 
               under the Retirement Benefit Plan for 
               Employees.  The benefit payable pursuant 
               to this Paragraph 3 shall be calculated 
               by subtracting the sum of (i) the 
               benefit payable under the Corporation's 
               Retirement Benefit Plan for Employees 
               and (ii) any benefit payable pursuant to 
               Section 7 of a Deferred Compensation 
               Agreement executed pursuant to the 
               Deferred Compensation Plan in order to 
               defer part of the salaried employee's 
               compensation (other than awards pursuant 
               to the Corporation's Annual Executive 
               Incentive Compensation Plan) from the 
               benefit described in the first sentence 
               of this Paragraph 3.

     This amendment is effective as of January 7, 1994.