Contract

Exhibit 4(e)

ENTERGY ARKANSAS, INC.

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS

(successor to Guaranty Trust Company of New York)

AND

(as to property, real or personal, situated or being in Missouri)

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY,

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

(successor to Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx)

As Trustees under Entergy Arkansas, Inc.'s Mortgage and Deed of Trust,

Dated as of October 1, 1944

__________________________________

SEVENTY-SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

Providing among other things for

First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series G

(Seventy-eighth Series)

and

First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series H

(Seventy-ninth Series)

________________________________

Dated as of January 1, 2013

SEVENTY-SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

INDENTURE, dated as of January 1, 2013, between ENTERGY ARKANSAS, INC., a corporation of the State of Arkansas, whose post office address is 000 Xxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000 (hereinafter sometimes called the "Company"), and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS (successor to Guaranty Trust Company of New York), a New York banking corporation, whose post office address is 00 Xxxx Xxxxxx, XX NYC 60-2710, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000 (hereinafter sometimes called the "Corporate Trustee"), and (as to property, real or personal, situated or being in Missouri) THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION (successor to Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx), whose mailing address is 00000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000 (said The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association being hereinafter sometimes called the "Missouri Co-Trustee" and the Corporate Trustee and the Missouri Co-Trustee being hereinafter together sometimes called the "Trustees"), as Trustees under the Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of October 1, 1944 (hereinafter sometimes called the "Mortgage"), which Mortgage was executed and delivered by the Company to secure the payment of bonds issued or to be issued under and in accordance with the provisions of the Mortgage, reference to which Mortgage is hereby made, this indenture (hereinafter called the "Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture") being supplemental thereto.

WHEREAS, the Mortgage was appropriately filed or recorded in various official records in the States of Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee and Wyoming; and

WHEREAS, an instrument, dated as of July 7, 1949, was executed by the Company appointing Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx as Co-Trustee in succession to Xxxxx X. Xxxxx (resigned) under the Mortgage, and by Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx accepting said appointment, and said instrument was appropriately filed or recorded in various official records in the States of Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee and Wyoming; and

WHEREAS, an instrument, dated as of March 1, 1960, was executed by the Company appointing Grainger X. Xxxxxx as Co-Trustee in succession to Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx (resigned) under the Mortgage, and by Grainger X. Xxxxxx accepting said appointment, and said instrument was appropriately filed or recorded in various official records in the States of Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee and Wyoming; and

WHEREAS, by the Twenty-first Supplemental Indenture mentioned below, the Company, among other things, appointed Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx as Co-Trustee in succession to Grainger X. Xxxxxx (resigned) under the Mortgage, and Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx accepted said appointment; and

WHEREAS, by the Thirty-third Supplemental Indenture mentioned below, the Company, among other things, appointed Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx as Missouri Co-Trustee under the Mortgage, and Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx accepted said appointment; and

WHEREAS, by the Thirty-fifth Supplemental Indenture mentioned below, the Company, among other things, appointed The Boatmen’s National Bank of St. Louis as Missouri Co-Trustee in succession to Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx (resigned) under the Mortgage, and The Boatmen’s National Bank of St. Louis accepted said appointment; and

WHEREAS, an instrument, dated as of September 1, 1994, was executed by the Company appointing Bankers Trust Company as Trustee, and Xxxxxxx Xxxx as Co-Trustee, in succession to Xxxxxx Guaranty Trust Company of New York (resigned) and Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx (resigned), respectively, under the Mortgage and Bankers Trust Company and Xxxxxxx Xxxx accepted said appointments, and said instrument was appropriately filed or recorded in various official records in the States of Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee and Wyoming; and

WHEREAS, by the Fifty-fifth Supplemental Indenture mentioned below, the Company, among other things, appointed Xxxxx X. Xxx Xxxxx as Missouri Co-Trustee in succession to The Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis (resigned) under the Mortgage, and Xxxxx X. Xxx Xxxxx accepted said appointment; and

WHEREAS, by an instrument, dated as of May 31, 2000, the Company appointed BNY Trust Company of Missouri as Missouri Co-Trustee in succession to Xxxxx X. Xxx Xxxxx (resigned) under the Mortgage, and BNY Trust Company of Missouri accepted said appointment, and said instrument was appropriately filed or recorded in various official records in the State of Missouri; and

WHEREAS, by an instrument, dated as of April 15, 2002, filed with the Banking Department of the State of New York, Bankers Trust Company, Trustee, effected a corporate name change pursuant to which, effective such date, it is known as Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas; and

WHEREAS, by an instrument dated November 1, 2004, filed with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in Colorado, BNY Trust Company of Missouri merged into BNY Missouri Interim Trust Company, National Association, and by an instrument dated November 1, 2004, filed with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in Colorado, BNY Missouri Interim Trust Company, National Association, merged into The Bank of New York Trust Company, National Association; and

WHEREAS, by the Sixty-third Supplemental Indenture mentioned below, the Company, the Corporate Trustee, Xxxxxxx Xxxx as Co-Trustee, and The Bank of New York Trust Company, National Association, as Missouri Co-Trustee, appointed Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx to serve as Missouri Co-Trustee under the Mortgage, and Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx accepted such appointment; and

WHEREAS, by an instrument effective as of February 28, 2005, Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx resigned as a Missouri Co-Trustee; and

WHEREAS, effective July 1, 0000, Xxx Xxxx xx Xxx Xxxx Trust Company, National Association changed its name to The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association; and

WHEREAS, by the Sixty-ninth Supplemental Indenture mentioned below, effective as of October 1, 2010, Xxxxxxx Xxxx resigned as Co-Trustee; and

WHEREAS, by the Mortgage the Company covenanted that it would execute and deliver such supplemental indenture or indentures and such further instruments and do such further acts as might be necessary or proper to carry out more effectually the purposes of the Mortgage and to make subject to the lien of the Mortgage any property thereafter acquired and intended to be subject to the lien thereof; and

WHEREAS, the Company executed and delivered to the Trustees the following supplemental indentures:

Designation	Dated as of
First Supplemental Indenture	July 1, 1947
Second Supplemental Indenture	August 1, 1948
Third Supplemental Indenture	October 1, 1949
Fourth Supplemental Indenture	June 1, 1950
Fifth Supplemental Indenture	October 1, 1951
Sixth Supplemental Indenture	September 1, 1952
Seventh Supplemental Indenture	June 1, 1953
Eighth Supplemental Indenture	August 1, 1954
Ninth Supplemental Indenture	April 1, 1955
Tenth Supplemental Indenture	December 1, 1959
Eleventh Supplemental Indenture	May 1, 1961
Twelfth Supplemental Indenture	February 1, 1963
Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture	April 1, 1965
Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture	March 1, 1966
Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture	March 1, 1967
Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture	April 1, 1968
Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture	June 1, 1968
Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture	December 1, 1969
Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture	August 1, 1970
Twentieth Supplemental Indenture	March 1, 1971
Twenty-first Supplemental Indenture	August 1, 1971
Twenty-second Supplemental Indenture	April 1, 1972
Twenty-third Supplemental Indenture	December 1, 1972
Twenty-fourth Supplemental Indenture	June 1, 1973
Twenty-fifth Supplemental Indenture	December 1, 1973
Twenty-sixth Supplemental Indenture	June 1, 1974
Twenty-seventh Supplemental Indenture	November 1, 1974
Twenty-eighth Supplemental Indenture	July 1, 1975
Twenty-ninth Supplemental Indenture	December 1, 1977
Thirtieth Supplemental Indenture	July 1, 1978
Thirty-first Supplemental Indenture	February 1, 1979
Thirty-second Supplemental Indenture	December 1, 1980
Thirty-third Supplemental Indenture	January 1, 1981
Thirty-fourth Supplemental Indenture	August 1, 1981
Thirty-fifth Supplemental Indenture	February 1, 1982
Thirty-sixth Supplemental Indenture	December 1, 1982
Thirty-seventh Supplemental Indenture	February 1, 1983
Thirty-eighth Supplemental Indenture	December 1, 1984
Thirty-ninth Supplemental Indenture	December 1, 1985
Fortieth Supplemental Indenture	July 1, 1986
Forty-first Supplemental Indenture	July 1, 1989
Forty-second Supplemental Indenture	February 1, 1990
Forty-third Supplemental Indenture	October 1, 1990
Forty-fourth Supplemental Indenture	November 1, 1990
Forty-fifth Supplemental Indenture	January 1, 1991
Forty-sixth Supplemental Indenture	August 1, 1992
Forty-seventh Supplemental Indenture	November 1, 1992
Forty-eighth Supplemental Indenture	June 15, 1993
Forty-ninth Supplemental Indenture	August 1, 1993
Fiftieth Supplemental Indenture	October 1, 1993
Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture	October 1, 1993
Fifty-second Supplemental Indenture	June 15, 1994
Fifty-third Supplemental Indenture	March 1, 1996
Fifty-fourth Supplemental Indenture	March 1, 1997
Fifty-fifth Supplemental Indenture	March 1, 2000
Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture	July 1, 2001
Fifty-seventh Supplemental Indenture	March 1, 2002
Fifty-eighth Supplemental Indenture	November 1, 2002
Fifty-ninth Supplemental Indenture	May 1, 2003
Sixtieth Supplemental Indenture	June 1, 2003
Sixty-first Supplemental Indenture	June 15, 2003
Sixty-second Supplemental Indenture	October 1, 2004
Sixty-third Supplemental Indenture	January 1, 2005
Sixty-fourth Supplemental Indenture	March 1, 2005
Sixty-fifth Supplemental Indenture	May 1, 2005
Sixty-sixth Supplemental Indenture	June 1, 2006
Sixty-seventh Supplemental Indenture	July 1, 2008
Sixty-eighth Supplemental Indenture	November 1, 2008
Sixty-ninth Supplemental Indenture	October 1, 2010
Seventieth Supplemental Indenture	November 1, 2010
Seventy-first Supplemental Indenture	December 1, 2012

which supplemental indentures were appropriately filed or recorded in various official records in the States of Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee and Wyoming, as applicable; and

WHEREAS, in addition to the property described in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, the Company has acquired certain other property, rights and interests in property; and

WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore issued, in accordance with the provisions of the Mortgage, as supplemented, the following series of First Mortgage Bonds:

Series	Principal Amount Issued		Principal Amount Outstanding
3 1/8% Series due 1974	$	30,000,000	None
2 7/8% Series due 1977		11,000,000	None
3 1/8% Series due 1978		7,500,000	None
2 7/8% Series due 1979		8,700,000	None
2 7/8% Series due 1980		6,000,000	None
3 5/8% Series due 1981		8,000,000	None
3 1/2% Series due 1982		15,000,000	None
4 1/4% Series due 1983		18,000,000	None
3 1/4% Series due 1984		7,500,000	None
3 3/8% Series due 1985		18,000,000	None
5 5/8% Series due 1989		15,000,000	None
4 7/8% Series due 1991		12,000,000	None
4 3/8% Series due 1993		15,000,000	None
4 5/8% Series due 1995		25,000,000	None
5 3/4% Series due 1996		25,000,000	None
5 7/8% Series due 1997		30,000,000	None
7 3/8% Series due 1998		15,000,000	None
9 1/4% Series due 1999		25,000,000	None
9 5/8% Series due 2000		25,000,000	None
7 5/8% Series due 2001		30,000,000	None
8% Series due August 1, 2001		30,000,000	None
7 3/4% Series due 2002		35,000,000	None
7 1/2% Series due December 1, 2002		15,000,000	None
8% Series due 2003		40,000,000	None
8 1/8% Series due December 1, 2003		40,000,000	None
10 1/2% Series due 2004		40,000,000	None
9 1/4% Series due November 1, 1981		60,000,000	None
10 1/8% Series due July 1, 2005		40,000,000	None
9 1/8% Series due December 1, 2007		75,000,000	None
9 7/8% Series due July 1, 2008		75,000,000	None
10 1/4% Series due February 1, 2009		60,000,000	None
16 1/8% Series due December 1, 1986		70,000,000	None
4 1/2% Series due September 1, 1983		1,202,000	None
5 1/2% Series due January 1, 1988		598,310	None
5 5/8% Series due May 1, 1990		1,400,000	None
6 1/4% Series due December 1, 1996		3,560,000	None
9 3/4% Series due September 1, 2000		4,600,000	None
8 3/4% Series due March 1, 1998		9,800,000	None
17 3/8% Series due August 1, 1988		75,000,000	None
16 1/2% Series due February 1, 1991		80,000,000	None
13 3/8% Series due December 1, 2012		75,000,000	None
13 1/4% Series due February 1, 2013		25,000,000	None
14 1/8% Series due December 1, 2014		100,000,000	None
Pollution Control Series A		128,800,000	None
10 1/4% Series due July 1, 2016		50,000,000	None
9 3/4% Series due July 1, 2019		75,000,000	None
10% Series due February 1, 2020		150,000,000	None
10 3/8% Series due October 1, 2020		175,000,000	None
Solid Waste Disposal Series A		21,066,667	None
Solid Waste Disposal Series B		28,440,000	None
7 1/2% Series due August 1, 2007		100,000,000	None
7.90% Series due November 1, 2002		25,000,000	None
8.70% Series due November 1, 2022		25,000,000	None
Pollution Control Series B		46,875,000	None
6.65% Series due August 1, 2005		115,000,000	None
6% Series due October 1, 2003		155,000,000	None
7% Series due October 1, 2023		175,000,000	None
Pollution Control Series C		20,319,000	None
Pollution Control Series D		9,586,400	None
8 3/4% Series due March 1, 2026		85,000,000	None
7% Series due March 1, 2002		85,000,000	None
7.72% Series due March 1, 2003		100,000,000	None
6 1/8% Series due July 1, 2005		100,000,000	None
6.70% Series due April 1, 2032		100,000,000	None
6.00% Series due November 1, 2032		100,000,000	None
5.40% Series due May 1, 2018		150,000,000	None
5.90% Series due June 1, 2033		100,000,000	100,000,000
5% Series due July 1, 2018		115,000,000	115,000,000
6.38% Series due November 1, 2034		60,000,000	60,000,000
5.66% Series due February 1, 2025		175,000,000	175,000,000
5% Pollution Control Series E		45,000,000	45,000,000
4.5% Series due June 1, 2010		100,000,000	None
Pollution Control Series F		56,378,000	56,378,000
5.40% Series due August 1, 2013		300,000,000	300,000,000
5.75% Series due November 1, 2040		225,000,000	225,000,000
3.75% Series due February 15, 2021		350,000,000	350,000,000
4.90% Series due December 1, 2052		200,000,000	200,000,000

which bonds are also hereinafter sometimes called bonds of the First through Seventy-seventh Series, respectively; and

WHEREAS, Section 8 of the Mortgage provides that the form of each series of bonds (other than the First Series) issued thereunder and of the coupons to be attached to coupon bonds of such series shall be established by Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company and that the form of such series, as established by said Board of Directors, shall specify the descriptive title of the bonds and various other terms thereof, and may also contain such provisions not inconsistent with the provisions of the Mortgage as the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, cause to be inserted therein expressing or referring to the terms and conditions upon which such bonds are to be issued and/or secured under the Mortgage; and

WHEREAS, Section 120 of the Mortgage provides, among other things, that any power, privilege or right expressly or impliedly reserved to or in any way conferred upon the Company by any provision of the Mortgage, whether such power, privilege or right is in any way restricted or is unrestricted, may be in whole or in part waived or surrendered or subjected to any restriction if at the time unrestricted or to additional restriction if already restricted, and the Company may enter into any further covenants, limitations or restrictions for the benefit of any one or more series of bonds issued thereunder, or the Company may cure any ambiguity contained therein or in any supplemental indenture, or may establish the terms and provisions of any series of bonds other than said First Series, by an instrument in writing executed and acknowledged by the Company in such manner as would be necessary to entitle a conveyance of real estate to record in all of the states in which any property at the time subject to the lien of the Mortgage shall be situated; and

WHEREAS, the Company now desires to create two new series of bonds, hereinafter referred to as bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series and bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series, unless the context otherwise requires, and (pursuant to the provisions of Section 120 of the Mortgage) to add to its covenants and agreements contained in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, certain other covenants and agreements to be observed by it and to alter and amend in certain respects the covenants and provisions contained in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, and to cure ambiguity contained in the Mortgage; and

WHEREAS, the execution and delivery by the Company of this Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture, and the terms of the bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series and the terms of the bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series, have been duly authorized by the Board of Directors of the Company by appropriate Resolutions of said Board of Directors.

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

That the Company, in consideration of the premises and of One Dollar to it duly paid by the Trustees at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and in further evidence of assurance of the estate, title and rights of the Trustees and in order further to secure the payment of both the principal of and interest and premium, if any, on the bonds from time to time issued under the Mortgage, according to their tenor and effect and the performance of all the provisions of the Mortgage (including any instruments supplemental thereto and any modifications made as in the Mortgage provided) and of said bonds, hereby grants, bargains, sells, releases, conveys, assigns, transfers, mortgages, hypothecates, affects, pledges, sets over and confirms (subject, however, to Excepted Encumbrances as defined in Section 6 of the Mortgage) unto The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association (as to property, real or personal, situated or being in Missouri) and (to the extent of its legal capacity to hold the same for the purposes hereof) to Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustees under the Mortgage, and to their successor or successors in said trust, and to them and their successors and assigns forever, all property, real, personal or mixed, of any kind or nature acquired by the Company after the date of the execution and delivery of the Mortgage (except any herein or in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, expressly excepted), now owned or, subject to the provisions of Section 87 of the Mortgage, hereafter acquired by the Company (by purchase, consolidation, merger, donation, construction, erection or in any other way) and wheresoever situated, including (without in anywise limiting or impairing by the enumeration of the same the scope and intent of the foregoing or of any general description contained in this Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture) all lands, power sites, flowage rights, water rights, water locations, water appropriations, ditches, flumes, reservoirs, reservoir sites, canals, raceways, dams, dam sites, aqueducts, and all other rights or means for appropriating, conveying, storing and supplying water; all rights of way and roads; all plants for the generation of electricity by steam, water and/or other power; all power houses, gas plants, street lighting systems, standards and other equipment incidental thereto; all street and interurban railway and transportation lines and systems, terminal systems and facilities; all bridges, culverts, tracks, railways, sidings, spurs, wyes, roadbeds, trestles and viaducts; all overground and underground trolleys and feeder wires; all telephone, radio and television systems, air-conditioning systems and equipment incidental thereto, water works, water systems, steam heat and hot water plants, substations, lines, service and supply systems, ice or refrigeration plants and equipment, offices, buildings and other structures and the equipment thereof, all machinery, engines, boilers, dynamos, electric, gas and other machines, regulators, meters, transformers, generators, motors, electrical, gas and mechanical appliances, conduits, cables, water, steam heat, gas or other pipes, gas mains and pipes, service pipes, fittings, valves and connections, pole and transmission lines, wires, cables, tools, implements, apparatus, furniture and chattels; all municipal and other franchises, consents or permits; all lines for the transmission and distribution of electric current, gas, steam heat or water for any purpose including towers, poles, wires, cables, pipes, conduits, ducts and all apparatus for use in connection therewith; all real estate, lands, easements, servitudes, licenses, permits, franchises, privileges, rights of way and other rights in or relating to real estate or the occupancy of the same and (except as herein or in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, expressly excepted) all the right, title and interest of the Company in and to all other property of any kind or nature appertaining to and/or used and/or occupied and/or enjoyed in connection with any property hereinbefore or in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, described.

TOGETHER WITH all and singular the tenements, hereditaments, prescriptions, servitudes and appurtenances belonging or in anywise appertaining to the aforesaid property or any part thereof, with the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders and (subject to the provisions of Section 57 of the Mortgage) the tolls, rents, revenues, issues, earnings, income, product and profits thereof and all the estate, right, title and interest and claim whatsoever, at law as well as in equity, which the Company now has or may hereafter acquire in and to the aforesaid property and franchises and every part and parcel thereof.

IT IS HEREBY AGREED by the Company that, subject to the provisions of Section 87 of the Mortgage, all the property, rights and franchises acquired by the Company (by purchase, consolidation, merger, donation, construction, erection or in any other way) after the date hereof, except any herein or in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, expressly excepted, shall be and are as fully granted and conveyed hereby and by the Mortgage and as fully embraced within the lien hereof and the lien of the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, as if such property, rights and franchises were now owned by the Company and were specifically described herein or in the Mortgage and conveyed hereby or thereby.

PROVIDED THAT the following are not and are not intended to be now or hereafter granted, bargained, sold, released, conveyed, assigned, transferred, mortgaged, hypothecated, affected, pledged, set over or confirmed hereunder and are hereby expressly excepted from the lien and operation of this Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture and from the lien and operation of the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, viz: (1) cash, shares of stock, bonds, notes and other obligations and other securities not hereafter specifically pledged, paid, deposited, delivered or held under the Mortgage or covenanted so to be; (2) merchandise, equipment, materials or supplies held for the purpose of sale in the usual course of business or for the purpose of repairing or replacing (in whole or in part) any street cars, rolling stock, trolley coaches, motor coaches, buses, automobiles or other vehicles or aircraft, and fuel, oil and similar materials and supplies consumable in the operation of any properties of the Company; street cars, rolling stock, trolley coaches, motor coaches, buses, automobiles and other vehicles and all aircraft; (3) bills, notes and accounts receivable, judgments, demands and choses in action, and all contracts, leases and operating agreements not specifically pledged under the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, or covenanted so to be; the Company's contractual rights or other interest in or with respect to tires not owned by the Company; (4) the last day of the term of any lease or leasehold which may hereafter become subject to the lien of the Mortgage; (5) electric energy, gas, ice, and other materials or products generated, manufactured, produced or purchased by the Company for sale, distribution or use in the ordinary course of its business; all timber, minerals, mineral rights and royalties; (6) the Company's franchise to be a corporation; (7) the properties heretofore sold or in the process of being sold by the Company and heretofore released from the Mortgage and Deed of Trust dated as of October 1, 1926 from Arkansas Power & Light Company to Guaranty Trust Company of New York, trustee, and specifically described in a release instrument executed by Guaranty Trust Company of New York, as trustee, dated October 13, 1938, which release has heretofore been delivered by the said trustee to the Company and recorded by the Company in the office of the Recorder for Garland County, Arkansas, in Record Book 227, Page 1, all of said properties being located in Garland County, Arkansas; and (8) any property heretofore released pursuant to any provisions of the Mortgage and not heretofore disposed of by the Company; provided, however, that the property and rights expressly excepted from the lien and operation of the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, and this Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture in the above subdivisions (2) and (3) shall (to the extent permitted by law) cease to be so excepted in the event and as of the date that any or all of the Trustees or a receiver or trustee shall enter upon and take possession of the Mortgaged and Pledged Property in the manner provided in Article XIII of the Mortgage by reason of the occurrence of a Default as defined in Section 65 thereof.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all such properties, real, personal and mixed, granted, bargained, sold, released, conveyed, assigned, transferred, mortgaged, hypothecated, affected, pledged, set over or confirmed by the Company as aforesaid, or intended so to be, unto The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association (as to property, real or personal, situated or being in Missouri), and (to the extent of its legal capacity to hold the same for the purposes hereof) unto Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustees, and their successors and assigns forever.

IN TRUST NEVERTHELESS, for the same purposes and upon the same terms, trusts and conditions and subject to and with the same provisos and covenants as are set forth in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, this Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture being supplemental to the Mortgage.

AND IT IS HEREBY COVENANTED by the Company that all the terms, conditions, provisos, covenants and provisions contained in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, shall affect and apply to the property hereinbefore described and conveyed and to the estate, rights, obligations and duties of the Company and Trustees and the beneficiaries of the trust with respect to said property, and to the Trustees and their successors in the trust in the same manner and with the same effect as if said property had been owned by the Company at the time of the execution of the Mortgage, and had been specifically and at length described in and conveyed to said Trustees, by the Mortgage as a part of the property therein stated to be conveyed.

The Company further covenants and agrees to and with the Trustees and their successors in said trust under the Mortgage, as follows:

ARTICLE I

SEVENTY-EIGHTH SERIES OF BONDS

SECTION 1. There shall be a series of bonds designated “Pollution Control Series G” (herein sometimes called the "Seventy-eighth Series"), each of which shall also bear the descriptive title "First Mortgage Bond", and the form thereof, which shall be established by Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company, shall contain suitable provisions with respect to the matters hereinafter in this Section specified. Bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series (which shall be initially issued in the aggregate principal amount of $55,266,000) shall mature on October 1, 2017, shall be issued as fully registered bonds in the denomination of One Thousand Dollars and such other denominations as the officers of the Company shall determine to issue (such determination to be evidenced by the execution and delivery thereof), shall be dated as in Section 10 of the Mortgage provided, and the principal of, and, to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under the applicable law, interest on any overdue principal of, each said bond shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for public and private debts.

(I) Form of Bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series.

The Bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series, and the Corporate Trustee’s authentication certificate to be executed on the Bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series, shall be in substantially the following forms, respectively:

[FORM OF BOND OF SEVENTY-EIGHTH SERIES]

(TEMPORARY REGISTERED BOND)

This bond is not transferable except to a successor trustee under the Trust Indenture, dated as of January 1, 2013 (the “Jefferson County Trust Indenture”), between Jefferson County, Arkansas (“Jefferson County”) relating to its Pollution Control Revenue Refunding Bonds (Entergy Arkansas, Inc. Project) Series 2013 (the “Jefferson County Series 2013 Bonds”) and Xxxxxxx First Trust Company, National Association, as trustee (the “Jefferson County Trust Indenture Trustee”).

ENTERGY ARKANSAS, INC.

FIRST MORTGAGE BOND

Pollution Control Series G

No. TR-

ENTERGY ARKANSAS, INC., a corporation of the State of Arkansas (the “Company”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Xxxxxxx First Trust Company, National Association, or registered assigns, on October 1, 2017 at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York,

______________________________ DOLLARS

in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for public and private debts, without interest until the principal of this bond shall have become due and payable, and to pay interest on any overdue principal (to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under the applicable law) at the rate of 6% per annum.

This bond is a temporary bond and is one of an issue of bonds of the Company issuable in series and is one of a series known as its First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series G, all bonds of all series issued and to be issued under and equally secured (except insofar as any sinking or other fund, established in accordance with the provisions of the Mortgage hereinafter mentioned, may afford additional security for the bonds of any particular series) by a Mortgage and Deed of Trust (herein, together with any indenture supplemental thereto, including the Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture dated as of January 1, 2013, called the Mortgage), dated as of October 1, 1944, executed by the Company to Guaranty Trust Company of New York (Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, successor) (hereinafter sometimes called the “Corporate Trustee”), and, as to property, real or personal, situated or being in Missouri, Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx (The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association, successor), as Trustees. Reference is made to the Mortgage for a description of the property mortgaged and pledged, the nature and extent of the security, the rights of the holders of the bonds and of the Trustees in respect thereof, the duties and immunities of the Trustees and the terms and conditions upon which the bonds are and are to be secured and the circumstances under which additional bonds may be issued. With the consent of the Company and to the extent permitted by and as provided in the Mortgage, the rights and obligations of the Company and/or the rights of the holders of the bonds and/or coupons and/or the terms and provisions of the Mortgage may be modified or altered by such affirmative vote or votes of the holders of bonds then outstanding as are specified in the Mortgage.

The principal hereof may be declared or may become due prior to the maturity date hereinbefore named on the conditions, in the manner and at the time set forth in the Mortgage, upon the occurrence of a default as in the Mortgage provided.

This bond is not transferable except to any successor trustee under the Jefferson County Trust Indenture, any such transfer to be made in the manner prescribed in the Mortgage by the registered owner hereof in person, or by his duly authorized attorney, at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, upon surrender and cancellation of this bond, together with a written instrument of transfer duly executed by the registered owner or by his duly authorized attorney, and thereupon a new fully registered temporary or definitive bond of the same series for a like principal amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange herefor as provided in the Mortgage. The Company and the Trustees may deem and treat the person in whose name this bond is registered as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payment and for all other purposes and neither the Company nor the Trustees shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.

In the manner prescribed in the Mortgage, any bonds of this series, upon surrender thereof for cancellation at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of bonds of the same series of other authorized denominations.

In the manner prescribed in the Mortgage, this temporary bond is exchangeable at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, without charge, for a definitive bond or bonds of the same series of a like aggregate principal amount when such definitive bonds are prepared and ready for delivery.

As provided in the Mortgage, the Company shall not be required to make transfers or exchanges of bonds of any series for a period of ten days immediately preceding any interest payment date for bonds of said series, or immediately preceding any designation of bonds of said series to be redeemed, and the Company shall not be required to make transfers or exchanges of any bonds designated in whole or in part for redemption.

The bonds of this series are subject to redemption as provided in the Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture.

The bonds of this series have been issued in order to evidence in part the obligation of the Company to make certain payments under the Loan Agreement, dated as of January 1, 2013, between Jefferson County and the Company.

The obligation of the Company to make any payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds of this series, whether at maturity, upon redemption or otherwise, shall be reduced by the amount of any reduction under the Jefferson County Trust Indenture of the amount of the corresponding payment required to be made by Jefferson County thereunder in respect of the principal of the Jefferson County Series 2013 Bonds.

The Trustees may conclusively presume that the obligation of the Company to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds of this series as the same shall become due and payable shall have been fully satisfied and discharged unless and until the Corporate Trustee shall have received a written notice (which may be a facsimile followed by a hard copy) from the Jefferson County Trust Indenture Trustee, signed by its President, a Vice President or a Trust Officer, stating that the corresponding payment of principal of or interest on the Jefferson County Series 2013 Bonds has become due and payable and has not been fully paid and specifying the amount of funds required to make such payment.

The Trustees may conclusively presume that no redemption of bonds of this series is required unless and until the Corporate Trustee shall have received a written notice (which may be a facsimile followed by a hard copy) from the Jefferson County Trust Indenture Trustee signed by its President, a Vice President or a Trust Officer, stating that the Jefferson County Series 2013 Bonds have become immediately due and payable pursuant to Section 8.02 of the Jefferson County Trust Indenture, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default under Section 8.01 (a), (b) or (c) of said Jefferson County Trust Indenture (a default by Jefferson County in the performance or observance of any covenants, agreements or conditions (other than payment covenants) in the Jefferson County Trust Indenture or the Jefferson County Series 2013 Bonds will not result in an obligation of the Company to redeem the bonds of this series), or that the Jefferson County Series 2013 Bonds are to be redeemed pursuant to Article III of the Jefferson County Trust Indenture and specifying the date fixed for the redemption and the principal amount thereof. Said notice shall also contain a waiver of notice under the Mortgage of such redemption by the Jefferson County Trust Indenture Trustee, as the holder of all the bonds of this series then Outstanding.

No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or interest on this bond against any incorporator or any past, present or future subscriber to the capital stock, stockholder, officer or director of the Company or of any predecessor or successor corporation, as such, either directly or through the Company or any predecessor or successor corporation, under any rule of law, statute or constitution or by the enforcement of any assessment or otherwise, all such liability of incorporators, subscribers, stockholders, officers and directors being released by the holder or owner hereof by the acceptance of this bond and being likewise waived and released by the terms of the Mortgage.

This bond shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of New York.

This bond shall not become obligatory until Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, the Corporate Trustee under the Mortgage, or its successor thereunder, shall have signed the form of authentication certificate endorsed hereon.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, ENTERGY ARKANSAS, INC. has caused this bond to be signed in its corporate name by its President or one of its Vice Presidents by his or her signature or a facsimile thereof, and its corporate seal to be impressed or imprinted hereon and attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries, by his or her signature or a facsimile thereof, on .

ENTERGY ARKANSAS, INC.

By_____________________________

Attest:

___________________________

CORPORATE TRUSTEE’S AUTHENTICATION CERTIFICATE

This bond is one of the bonds, of the series herein designated, described or provided for in the within-mentioned Mortgage.

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS,

as Corporate Trustee

By ___________________________

Authorized Officer

(II) The bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series shall be issued in the aggregate principal amount of $55,266,000 and delivered to, and registered in the name of and held by, Xxxxxxx First Trust Company, National Association (hereinafter the “Jefferson County Trust Indenture Trustee”), the trustee under the Trust Indenture, dated as of January 1, 2013 (the “Jefferson County Trust Indenture”) between Jefferson County, Arkansas (“Jefferson County”), the issuer of the Pollution Control Revenue Refunding Bonds (Entergy Arkansas, Inc. Project) Series 2013 (hereinafter the “Jefferson County Series 2013 Bonds”), in order to evidence in part the Company’s obligation to make certain payments under the Loan Agreement dated as of January 1, 2013, between Jefferson County and the Company.

The obligation of the Company to make any payment of principal of the bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series, whether at maturity, upon redemption or otherwise, shall be reduced by the amount of any reduction under the Jefferson County Trust Indenture of the amount of the corresponding payment required to be made by Jefferson County thereunder in respect of the principal of the Jefferson County Series 2013 Bonds. The Trustees may conclusively presume that the obligation of the Company to pay the principal of the bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series as the same shall become due and payable shall have been fully satisfied and discharged unless and until the Corporate Trustee shall have received a written notice (which may be a facsimile followed by a hard copy) from the Jefferson County Trust Indenture Trustee, signed by its President, a Vice President or a Trust Officer, stating that the corresponding payment of principal of the Jefferson County Series 2013 Bonds has become due and payable and has not been fully paid and specifying the amount of funds required to make such payment.

(III) In the event that any Jefferson County Series 2013 Bonds outstanding under the Jefferson County Trust Indenture shall become immediately due and payable pursuant to Section 8.02 of the Jefferson County Trust Indenture upon the occurrence of an Event of Default under Section 8.01 (a), (b) or (c) of the Jefferson County Trust Indenture, all bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series then Outstanding shall be redeemed by the Company, on the date such Jefferson County Series 2013 Bonds shall have become immediately due and payable, at a redemption price of 100% of the principal amount thereof. A default by Jefferson County in the performance or observance of any covenants, agreements or conditions (other than payment covenants) in the Jefferson County Trust Indenture or the Jefferson County Series 2013 Bonds will not result in an obligation of the Company to redeem the bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series.

In the event that any Jefferson County Series 2013 Bonds are to be redeemed pursuant to Article III of the Jefferson County Trust Indenture, bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series, in a principal amount equal, as nearly as practicable, to the sum of (i) the principal amount of such Jefferson County Series 2013 Bonds being redeemed and (ii) eight-twelfths (8/12) of the annual interest due on such Jefferson County Series 2013 Bonds being redeemed, shall be redeemed by the Company, on the date fixed for redemption of such Jefferson County Series 2013 Bonds, at a redemption price of 100% of the principal amount thereof.

The Trustees may conclusively presume that no redemption of bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series is required pursuant to this subsection (III) unless and until the Corporate Trustee shall have received a written notice (which may be a facsimile followed by a hard copy) from the Jefferson County Trust Indenture Trustee signed by its President, a Vice President or a Trust Officer, stating that the Jefferson County Series 2013 Bonds have become immediately due and payable pursuant to Section 8.02 of the Jefferson County Trust Indenture upon the occurrence of an Event of Default under Section 8.01 (a), (b) or (c) of the Jefferson County Trust Indenture, or that the Jefferson County Series 2013 Bonds (or any portion thereof) are to be redeemed pursuant to Article III of the Jefferson County Trust Indenture and specifying the date fixed for the redemption and the principal amount thereof. Said notice shall also contain a waiver of notice under the Mortgage of such redemption by the Jefferson County Trust Indenture Trustee, as the holder of all the bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series then Outstanding.

(IV) The Company hereby waives its right to have any notice of redemption pursuant to subsection (III) of this Section 1 state that such notice is subject to the receipt of the redemption moneys by the Corporate Trustee before the date fixed for redemption. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 52 of the Mortgage, any such notice under such Section shall not be conditional.

(V) At the option of the registered owner, any bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series, upon surrender thereof for cancellation at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, shall be exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of bonds of the same series of other authorized denominations.

Bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series shall not be transferable except to any successor trustee under the Jefferson County Trust Indenture and any such transfer shall be made (subject to the provisions of Section 12 of the Mortgage) at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York.

The Company hereby waives any right to make a charge for any exchange or transfer of bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series.

Upon the delivery of this Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture and upon compliance with the applicable provisions of the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, there shall be an initial issue of bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series for the aggregate principal amount of $55,266,000.

ARTICLE II.

SEVENTY-NINTH SERIES OF BONDS

SECTION 1. There shall be a series of bonds designated “Pollution Control Series H” (herein sometimes called the "Seventy-ninth Series"), each of which shall also bear the descriptive title "First Mortgage Bond", and the form thereof, which shall be established by Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company, shall contain suitable provisions with respect to the matters hereinafter in this Section specified. Bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series (which shall be initially issued in the aggregate principal amount of $45,713,000) shall mature on January 1, 2021, shall be issued as fully registered bonds in the denomination of One Thousand Dollars and such other denominations as the officers of the Company shall determine to issue (such determination to be evidenced by the execution and delivery thereof), shall be dated as in Section 10 of the Mortgage provided, and the principal of, and, to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under the applicable law, interest on any overdue principal of, each said bond shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for public and private debts.

(I) Form of Bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series.

The Bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series, and the Corporate Trustee’s authentication certificate to be executed on the Bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series, shall be in substantially the following forms, respectively:

[FORM OF BOND OF SEVENTY-NINTH SERIES]

(TEMPORARY REGISTERED BOND)

This bond is not transferable except to a successor trustee under the Trust Indenture, dated as of January 1, 2013 (the “Independence County Trust Indenture”), between Independence County, Arkansas (“Independence County”) relating to its Pollution Control Revenue Refunding Bonds (Entergy Arkansas, Inc. Project) Series 2013 (the “Independence County Series 2013 Bonds”) and Xxxxxxx First Trust Company, National Association, as trustee (the “Independence County Trust Indenture Trustee”).

ENTERGY ARKANSAS, INC.

FIRST MORTGAGE BOND

Pollution Control Series H

No. TR-

ENTERGY ARKANSAS, INC., a corporation of the State of Arkansas (the “Company”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Xxxxxxx First Trust Company, National Association, or registered assigns, on January 1, 2021 at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York,

________________ DOLLARS

This bond is a temporary bond and is one of an issue of bonds of the Company issuable in series and is one of a series known as its First Mortgage Bonds, Pollution Control Series H, all bonds of all series issued and to be issued under and equally secured (except insofar as any sinking or other fund, established in accordance with the provisions of the Mortgage hereinafter mentioned, may afford additional security for the bonds of any particular series) by a Mortgage and Deed of Trust (herein, together with any indenture supplemental thereto, including the Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture dated as of January 1, 2013, called the Mortgage), dated as of October 1, 1944, executed by the Company to Guaranty Trust Company of New York (Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, successor) (hereinafter sometimes called the “Corporate Trustee”), and, as to property, real or personal, situated or being in Missouri, Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx (The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association, successor), as Trustees. Reference is made to the Mortgage for a description of the property mortgaged and pledged, the nature and extent of the security, the rights of the holders of the bonds and of the Trustees in respect thereof, the duties and immunities of the Trustees and the terms and conditions upon which the bonds are and are to be secured and the circumstances under which additional bonds may be issued. With the consent of the Company and to the extent permitted by and as provided in the Mortgage, the rights and obligations of the Company and/or the rights of the holders of the bonds and/or coupons and/or the terms and provisions of the Mortgage may be modified or altered by such affirmative vote or votes of the holders of bonds then outstanding as are specified in the Mortgage.

This bond is not transferable except to any successor trustee under the Independence County Trust Indenture, any such transfer to be made in the manner prescribed in the Mortgage by the registered owner hereof in person, or by his duly authorized attorney, at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, upon surrender and cancellation of this bond, together with a written instrument of transfer duly executed by the registered owner or by his duly authorized attorney, and thereupon a new fully registered temporary or definitive bond of the same series for a like principal amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange herefor as provided in the Mortgage. The Company and the Trustees may deem and treat the person in whose name this bond is registered as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payment and for all other purposes and neither the Company nor the Trustees shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.

The bonds of this series are subject to redemption as provided in the Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture.

The obligation of the Company to make any payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds of this series, whether at maturity, upon redemption or otherwise, shall be reduced by the amount of any reduction under the Independence County Trust Indenture of the amount of the corresponding payment required to be made by Independence County thereunder in respect of the principal of the Independence County Series 2013 Bonds.

The Trustees may conclusively presume that the obligation of the Company to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds of this series as the same shall become due and payable shall have been fully satisfied and discharged unless and until the Corporate Trustee shall have received a written notice (which may be a facsimile followed by a hard copy) from the Independence County Trust Indenture Trustee, signed by its President, a Vice President or a Trust Officer, stating that the corresponding payment of principal of or interest on the Independence County Series 2013 Bonds has become due and payable and has not been fully paid and specifying the amount of funds required to make such payment.

The Trustees may conclusively presume that no redemption of bonds of this series is required unless and until the Corporate Trustee shall have received a written notice (which may be a facsimile followed by a hard copy) from the Independence County Trust Indenture Trustee signed by its President, a Vice President or a Trust Officer, stating that the Independence County Series 2013 Bonds have become immediately due and payable pursuant to Section 8.02 of the Independence County Trust Indenture, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default under Section 8.01 (a), (b) or (c) of said Independence County Trust Indenture (a default by Independence County in the performance or observance of any covenants, agreements or conditions (other than payment covenants) in the Independence County Trust Indenture or the Independence County Series 2013 Bonds will not result in an obligation of the Company to redeem the bonds of this series), or that the Independence County Series 2013 Bonds are to be redeemed pursuant to Article III of the Independence County Trust Indenture and specifying the date fixed for the redemption and the principal amount thereof. Said notice shall also contain a waiver of notice under the Mortgage of such redemption by the Independence County Trust Indenture Trustee, as the holder of all the bonds of this series then Outstanding.

This bond shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of New York.

ENTERGY ARKANSAS, INC.

By_____________________________

Attest:

___________________________

CORPORATE TRUSTEE’S AUTHENTICATION CERTIFICATE

This bond is one of the bonds, of the series herein designated, described or provided for in the within-mentioned Mortgage.

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS,

as Corporate Trustee

By ___________________________

Authorized Officer

(II) The bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series shall be issued in the aggregate principal amount of $45,713,000 and delivered to, and registered in the name of and held by, Xxxxxxx First Trust Company, National Association (hereinafter the “Independence County Trust Indenture Trustee”), the trustee under the Trust Indenture, dated as of January 1, 2013 (the “Independence County Trust Indenture”) between Independence County, Arkansas (“Independence County”), the issuer of the Pollution Control Revenue Refunding Bonds (Entergy Arkansas, Inc. Project) Series 2013 (hereinafter the “Independence County Series 2013 Bonds”), in order to evidence in part the Company’s obligation to make certain payments under the Loan Agreement dated as of January 1, 2013, between Independence County and the Company.

The obligation of the Company to make any payment of principal of the bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series, whether at maturity, upon redemption or otherwise, shall be reduced by the amount of any reduction under the Independence County Trust Indenture of the amount of the corresponding payment required to be made by Independence County thereunder in respect of the principal of the Independence County Series 2013 Bonds. The Trustees may conclusively presume that the obligation of the Company to pay the principal of the bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series as the same shall become due and payable shall have been fully satisfied and discharged unless and until the Corporate Trustee shall have received a written notice (which may be a facsimile followed by a hard copy) from the Independence County Trust Indenture Trustee, signed by its President, a Vice President or a Trust Officer, stating that the corresponding payment of principal of the Independence County Series 2013 Bonds has become due and payable and has not been fully paid and specifying the amount of funds required to make such payment.

(III) In the event that any Independence County Series 2013 Bonds outstanding under the Independence County Trust Indenture shall become immediately due and payable pursuant to Section 8.02 of the Independence County Trust Indenture upon the occurrence of an Event of Default under Section 8.01 (a), (b) or (c) of the Independence County Trust Indenture, all bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series then Outstanding shall be redeemed by the Company, on the date such Independence County Series 2013 Bonds shall have become immediately due and payable, at a redemption price of 100% of the principal amount thereof. A default by Independence County in the performance or observance of any covenants, agreements or conditions (other than payment covenants) in the Independence County Trust Indenture or the Independence County Series 2013 Bonds will not result in an obligation of the Company to redeem the bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series.

In the event that any Independence County Series 2013 Bonds are to be redeemed pursuant to Article III of the Independence County Trust Indenture, bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series, in a principal amount equal, as nearly as practicable, to the sum of (i) the principal amount of such Independence County Series 2013 Bonds being redeemed and (ii) eight-twelfths (8/12) of the annual interest due on such Independence County Series 2013 Bonds being redeemed, shall be redeemed by the Company, on the date fixed for redemption of such Independence County Series 2013 Bonds, at a redemption price of 100% of the principal amount thereof.

The Trustees may conclusively presume that no redemption of bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series is required pursuant to this subsection (III) unless and until the Corporate Trustee shall have received a written notice (which may be a facsimile followed by a hard copy) from the Independence County Trust Indenture Trustee signed by its President, a Vice President or a Trust Officer, stating that the Independence County Series 2013 Bonds have become immediately due and payable pursuant to Section 8.02 of the Independence County Trust Indenture upon the occurrence of an Event of Default under Section 8.01 (a), (b) or (c) of the Independence County Trust Indenture, or that the Independence County Series 2013 Bonds (or any portion thereof) are to be redeemed pursuant to Article III of the Independence County Trust Indenture and specifying the date fixed for the redemption and the principal amount thereof. Said notice shall also contain a waiver of notice under the Mortgage of such redemption by the Independence County Trust Indenture Trustee, as the holder of all the bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series then Outstanding.

(V) At the option of the registered owner, any bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series, upon surrender thereof for cancellation at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, shall be exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of bonds of the same series of other authorized denominations.

Bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series shall not be transferable except to any successor trustee under the Independence County Trust Indenture and any such transfer shall be made (subject to the provisions of Section 12 of the Mortgage) at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York.

The Company hereby waives any right to make a charge for any exchange or transfer of bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series.

Upon the delivery of this Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture and upon compliance with the applicable provisions of the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, there shall be an initial issue of bonds of the Seventy-ninth Series for the aggregate principal amount of $45,713,000.

ARTICLE III

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

SECTION 1. The holders of the bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series and of the Seventy-ninth Series shall be deemed to have consented and agreed that the Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for the purpose of determining the holders of the bonds of the Seventy-eighth Series and of the Seventy-ninth Series entitled to consent to any amendment or supplement to the Mortgage or the waiver of any provision thereof or any act to be performed thereunder. If a record date is fixed, those persons who were holders at such record date (or their duly designated proxies), and only those persons, shall be entitled to consent to such amendment, supplement or waiver or to revoke any consent previously given, whether or not such persons continue to be holders after such record date. No such consent shall be valid or effective for more than 90 days after such record date.

SECTION 2. Subject to the amendments provided for in this Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture, the terms defined in the Mortgage and the First through Seventy-first Supplemental Indentures shall, for all purposes of this Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture, have the meanings specified in the Mortgage and the First through Seventieth Supplemental Indentures.

SECTION 3. The Trustees hereby accept the trusts herein declared, provided, created or supplemented and agree to perform the same upon the terms and conditions herein and in the Mortgage and in the First through Seventy-first Supplemental Indentures set forth and upon the following terms and conditions:

The Trustees shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture or for or in respect of the recitals contained herein, all of which recitals are made by the Company solely. In general each and every term and condition contained in Article XVII of the Mortgage, as heretofore amended, shall apply to and form part of this Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture with the same force and effect as if the same were herein set forth in full with such omissions, variations and insertions, if any, as may be appropriate to make the same conform to the provisions of this Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture.

SECTION 4. Whenever in this Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture any of the parties hereto is named or referred to, this shall, subject to the provisions of Articles XVI and XVII of the Mortgage, as heretofore amended, be deemed to include the successors and assigns of such party, and all the covenants and agreements in this Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture contained by or on behalf of the Company, or by or on behalf of the Trustees, or any of them, shall, subject as aforesaid, bind and inure to the respective benefits of the respective successors and assigns of such parties, whether so expressed or not.

SECTION 5. Nothing in this Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture, expressed or implied, is intended, or shall be construed, to confer upon, or give to, any person, firm or corporation, other than the parties hereto and the holders of the bonds and coupons Outstanding under the Mortgage, any right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture or any covenant, condition, stipulation, promise or agreement hereof, and all the covenants, conditions, stipulations, promises or agreements in this Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture contained by or on behalf of the Company shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties hereto, and of the holders of the bonds and of the coupons Outstanding under the Mortgage.

SECTION 6. This Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture shall be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which shall constitute but one and the same instrument.

SECTION 7. This Seventy-second Supplemental Indenture shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of New York.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, ENTERGY ARKANSAS, INC. has caused its corporate name to be hereunto affixed, and this instrument to be signed and sealed by its President or one of its Vice Presidents, and its corporate seal to be attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries for and in its behalf, and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS has caused its corporate name to be hereunto affixed, and this instrument to be signed and sealed by, one of its Vice Presidents or one of its Assistant Vice Presidents, and its corporate seal to be attested by one of its Associates for and in its behalf, and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION has caused its corporate name to be hereunto affixed, and this instrument to be signed and sealed by one of its Vice Presidents or one of its Senior Associates or one of its Associates, and its corporate seal to be attested by one of its Vice Presidents or one of its Senior Associates or one of its Associates for and in its behalf, as of the day and year first above written.

ENTERGY ARKANSAS, INC.

By: /s/ Xxxxxx X. XxXxxx

Xxxxxx X. XxXxxx

Vice President

Attest:

By: /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxx

Xxxx Xxxxxx

Assistant Secretary

Executed, sealed and delivered by

ENTERGY ARKANSAS, INC.

in the presence of:

/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx

Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx

/s/ Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx

Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS,

As Corporate Trustee

By: _/s/ Xxxxx Ng________________

Xxxxx Xx

Vice President

By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxx

Xxxxx Xxxxxxx

Vice President

Attest:

/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxx

Xxxxx Xxxxxxx

Executed, sealed and delivered by

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS

in the presence of:

/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxx

Xxxxx Xxxxxxx

/s/ Xxxxx Xxxx

Xxxxx Xxxx

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY,

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

As Co-Trustee as to property, real or personal, situated

or being in Missouri

By: /s/ X. Xxxxxx

X. Xxxxxx

Vice President

Attest:

By:/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx

Xxxxx Xxxxxx

Vice President

Executed, sealed and delivered by

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY,

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

in the presence of:

By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxx

Xxxxx Xxxxx

By: /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxx

Xxxx X. Xxxxx

STATE OF LOUISIANA )

) SS.:

PARISH OF ORLEANS )

On this 3rd day of January, 2013 before me, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx , a Notary Public duly commissioned, qualified and acting within and for said Parish and State, appeared in person the within named Xxxxxx X. XxXxxx and Xxxx Xxxxxx, to me personally well known, who stated that they were the Vice President and Treasurer and Assistant Secretary, respectively, of ENTERGY ARKANSAS, INC., a corporation, and were duly authorized in their respective capacities to execute the foregoing instrument for and in the name and behalf of said corporation, and further stated and acknowledged that they had so signed, executed and delivered said foregoing instrument for the consideration, uses and purposes therein mentioned and set forth.

On the 3rd day of January, 2013, before me personally came Xxxxxx X. XxXxxx, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he is the Vice President and Treasurer of ENTERGY ARKANSAS, INC., one of the corporations described in and which executed the above instrument; that he knows the seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed by order of the Board of Directors of said corporation, and that he signed his name thereto by like order.

On the 3rd day of January, 2013, before me appeared Xxxx Xxxxxx, to me personally known, who, being by me duly sworn, did say that she is the Assistant Secretary of ENTERGY ARKANSAS, INC., and that the seal affixed to the foregoing instrument is the corporate seal of said corporation, and that said instrument was signed and sealed in behalf of said corporation by authority of its Board of Directors, and she acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said corporation.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at my office in said Parish and State the day and year last above written.

/s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx

Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx

Notary Public Xx. 00000

Xxxxxx xx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx of Louisiana

My Commission is Issued For Life

STATE OF NEW YORK )

) SS.:

COUNTY OF NEW YORK )

On this 4th day of January, 2013, before me, Xxxxxxxx Xxx, a Notary Public duly commissioned, qualified and acting within and for said County and State, appeared Xxxxx Xx, Xxxxx Xxxxxxx and Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, to me personally well known, who stated that they were a Vice President, a Vice President, and an Associate, respectively, of DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, a corporation, and were duly authorized in their respective capacities to execute the foregoing instrument for and in the name and behalf of said corporation; and further stated and acknowledged that they had so signed, executed and delivered said foregoing instrument for the consideration, uses and purposes therein mentioned and set forth.

On the 4th day of January, 2013, before me personally came Xxxxx Xx and Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that they are a Vice President and a Vice President of DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, one of the corporations described in and which executed the above instrument; that they know the seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed by authority of the Board of Directors of said corporation, and that they signed their names thereto by like authority.

On the 4th day of January, 2013, before me appeared Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, to me personally known, who, being by me duly sworn, did say that she is an Associate of DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, and that the seal affixed to the foregoing instrument is the corporate seal of said corporation, and that said instrument was signed and sealed in behalf of said corporation by authority of its Board of Directors, and she acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said corporation.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at my office in said County and State the day and year last above written.

/s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxx

Xxxxxxxx Xxx

Notary Public, State of New York

No. 01R06266868

Qualified in New York County

Commission Expires August 6, 2016

STATE OF ILLINOIS )

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COUNTY OF XXXX )

On this 4th day of January, 2013, before me, Xxxxx Xxxxxx, a Notary Public duly commissioned, qualified and acting within and for said state, appeared X. Xxxxxx and Xxxxx Xxxxxx, personally known to me, or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the individuals whose names are subscribed to the within instrument, who stated that they were a Vice President and Vice President, respectively, of THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as Co-Trustee as to property, real or personal, situated or being in Missouri (the “Missouri Co-Trustee”), and were duly authorized in their respective capacities to execute the foregoing instrument for and in the name and on behalf of said Missouri Co-Trustee; and further stated that they had so signed, executed and delivered the same for the consideration, uses and purposes therein mentioned and set forth.

On this 4th day of January, 2013, before me personally appeared X. Xxxxxx, personally known to me, or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the individual whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he is a Vice President of THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, one of the entities described in and which executed the above instrument; that he knows the seal of said National Association; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such seal; that it was so affixed by authority of its Board of Directors, and that he signed his name thereto by like authority.

On this 4th day of January, 2013, before me appeared Xxxxx Xxxxxx, personally known to me, or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the individual whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and, who, being by me duly sworn, did say that she is a Vice President of THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, and that the seal affixed to the foregoing instrument is the seal of the Missouri Co-Trustee, and that said instrument was signed and sealed on behalf of the Missouri Co-Trustee by authority of its Board of Directors, and he/she acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said entity.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at my office in said City and State the day and year last above written.

/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx

Xxxxx Xxxxxx

Notary Public, State of Illinois

Commission Expires 2-6-16

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