WPS Resources Corporation Form 15
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
FORM
15
CERTIFICATION
AND NOTICE OF TERMINATION OF REGISTRATION UNDER SECTION 12(g) OF THE SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 OR SUSPENSION OF DUTY TO FILE REPORTS UNDER SECTIONS 13
AND
15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934.
Commission
File
Number: 1-11337
WPS
RESOURCES
CORPORATION
(Exact
name of
registrant as specified in its charter)
700
North Adams
Street
P.O.
Box
19001
Green
Bay,
Wisconsin 54307-9001
(920)
433-1727
(Address,
including
zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal
executive offices)
Common
Share
Purchase Rights
(Title
of each
class of securities covered by this Form)
Common
Stock, $1
par value
(Titles
of all
other classes of securities for which a duty to file reports under section
13(a)
or 15(d) remains)
Please
place an X
in the box(es) to designate the appropriate rule provision(s) relied upon to
terminate or suspend the duty to file reports:
Rule
12g-4(a)(1)(i) [x] Rule
12h-3(b)(1)(i) [x]
Rule
12g-4(a)(1)(ii) [
] Rule
12h-3(b)(1)(ii) [
]
Rule
12g-4(a)(2)(i) [
] Rule
12h-3(b)(2)(i) [
]
Rule
12g-4(a)(2)(ii) [
] Rule
12h-3(b)(2)(ii) [
]
Rule 15d-6 [
]
Approximate
number
of holders of record as of the certification or notice date: None*
*
The rights to
purchase common stock pursuant to the Rights Agreement, dated as of December
12,
1996, as amended, between the Company and American Stock Transfer & Trust
Company, as successor in interest to U.S. Bank National Association and Firstar
Trust Company (the “Rights
Agreement”),
expired on
December 11, 2006. The
Rights
Agreement expired by its own terms and the Board of Directors of WPS Resources
Corporation decided not to renew it. WPS Resources initially filed a Form 8-A
to
register the rights on December 13, 1996, which Form 8-A was subsequently
amended on July 11, 2006.
Pursuant
to the
requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, WPS Resources Corporation
has caused this certification/notice to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned duly authorized person.
Date:
December 12,
2006 By: /s/
Joseph P. O'Leary
Name:
Joseph
P.
O'Leary
Title:
Senior
Vice
President and
Chief
Financial
Officer