EXHIBIT 99

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PACIFIC POWER   UTAH POWER                                        NEWS RELEASE
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Jan Mitchell, (503) 464-6261

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, May 27, 1994

     PacifiCorp announced today a realignment of senior officer
responsibilities.

     Verl Topham, president of PacifiCorp's Utah Power Division, has been
appointed to senior vice president and legal counsel of PacifiCorp with
responsibility for all corporate legal matters.  In addition, Topham was
elected to the PacifiCorp board of directors.

     Paul Lorenzini, president of the utility's Pacific Power Division, is the
new PacifiCorp senior vice president of engineering and capital projects. 
Lorenzini replaces Harry Haycock, who is retiring.  Haycock joined Utah Power
in 1960 and has held a number of engineering, management and officer
positions.

     The positions of division presidents have been eliminated.  The changes
are effective immediately.

     Fred Buckman, president and CEO of PacifiCorp, said that PacifiCorp's
electric operations will be organized into three major areas:  power supply;
wholesale sales and transmission, and retail sales and distribution
operations.

     "This realignment focuses our attention on three distinct business units,
strengthens our management team and makes PacifiCorp more competitive,"
Buckman said.  "These three discrete operational units make sense because they
represent three distinct businesses, each with different sets of customers,"
he added.

     John Bohling, senior vice president, continues to direct power supply,
and Dennis Steinberg, senior vice president, remains as head of wholesale
sales and transmission.

     Beginning immediately, PacifiCorp will conduct a search for a senior vice
president to oversee its retail sales and distribution operations.  While
PacifiCorp will continue to conduct its retail business under the well-
established names of Pacific Power and Utah Power, management of the retail
group will be consolidated under this one officer.  In the interim, John
Mooney, executive vice president of Utah Power, will act in this capacity.

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