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FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			CMS ENERGY CORP
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000811156
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	 [4931
]		IRS NUMBER:				382726431
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			MI
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231
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			SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-09513
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			BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
				STREET 1:		FAIRLANE PLZ SOUTH STE 1100
				STREET 2:		330 TOWN CENTER DR
				CITY:			DEARBORN
				STATE:			MI
				ZIP:			48126
				BUSINESS PHONE:		3134369261
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				MAIL ADDRESS:	
					STREET 1:		FAIRLANE PLAZA SOUTH, SUITE 1100
					STREET 2:		330 TOWN CENTER DRIVE
					CITY:			DEARBORN
					STATE:			MI
					ZIP:			48126
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							COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			CONSUMERS ENERGY CO
							CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000201533
							STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	 [4931
]							IRS NUMBER:				380442310
							STATE OF INCORPORATION:			MI
							FISCAL YEAR END:			1231
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								BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
									STREET 1:		212 W MICHIGAN AVE
									CITY:			JACKSON
									STATE:			MI
									ZIP:			49201
									BUSINESS PHONE:		5177881030
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										STREET 1:		212 W MICHIGAN AVE
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										STATE:			MI
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__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________




                                  FORM 8-K

                               CURRENT REPORT


                     SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                           Washington, D.C. 20549


PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


       Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) July 6, 2000



COMMISSION              REGISTRANT; STATE OF                 IRS EMPLOYER
FILE NUMBER            INCORPORATION; ADDRESS;              IDENTIFICATION
                        AND TELEPHONE NUMBER                     NO.


1-9513                   CMS ENERGY CORPORATION               38-2726431
                        (A Michigan Corporation)
                    Fairlane Plaza South, Suite 1100
                          330 Town Center Drive
                         Dearborn, Michigan 48126
                               (313) 436-9261

1-5611                  CONSUMERS ENERGY COMPANY              38-0442310
                        (A Michigan Corporation)
                        212 West Michigan Avenue
                            Jackson, Michigan
                              (517) 788-1030




__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________


<PAGE>  2

ITEM 5.  OTHER EVENTS.


On July 6, 2000, Consumers Energy Company, the principal subsidiary of
CMS Energy Corporation, issued a press release announcing that it filed an
application with the Michigan Public Service Commission (the "MPSC") to
begin the securitization process for approximately $473 million in
qualified costs, in accordance with the State of Michigan's new electric
industry restructuring and securitization laws.  The initial public
hearing on this application will be held on July 17, 2000 as a prehearing
conference.

Copies of the Consumers Energy's press release announcing these
developments, the Application (exclusive of accompanying testimony and
exhibits) of Consumers Energy to the MPSC (Case No. U-12505) and the
Notice of Hearing for the Customers of Consumers Energy, are filed as
exhibits to this report and are incorporated herein by reference.  The
entire Application, with accompanying testimony and exhibits, can be
accessed on the MPSC's website, http://cis.state.mi.us/mpsc.  Click on
"Electronic Filings Pilot."

The press release and other exhibits contain "forward-looking statements"
that are subject to risks and uncertainties. The words "anticipates",
"believes", "estimates", "intends", and "plans" and variations of such
words and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking
statements. They should be read in conjunction with the "Forward-Looking
Statement Cautionary Factors" in CMS Energy's and Consumers' Form 10-K,
Item 1 (incorporated by reference herein) that discusses important factors
that could cause CMS Energy's and Consumers' results to differ materially
from those anticipated in such statements.

ITEM 7.  EXHIBITS.

     (c)    Exhibits:

     99(a)  Consumers Energy Company Press Release dated July 6, 2000.

     99(b)  Application for Financing Order, Case No. U-12505, filed July
            5, 2000 by Consumers Energy Company with the Michigan Public
            Service Commission.

     99(c)  Notice of Hearing for the Customers of Consumers Energy
            Company, Case No. U-12505, dated July 3, 2000
<PAGE>  3

                                 SIGNATURES


Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrants have duly caused this report to be signed on their behalf by
the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

                               CMS ENERGY CORPORATION



Dated:   July 6, 2000          By: /s/Alan M. Wright
                                   _________________
                                      Alan M. Wright
                                      Senior Vice President and
                                        Chief Financial Officer


                               CONSUMERS ENERGY COMPANY



Dated:   July 6, 2000          By:   /s/Alan M. Wright
                                   __________________
                                      Alan M. Wright
                                      Senior Vice President and
                                        Chief Financial Officer




<PAGE>  4
                              INDEX TO EXHIBITS


     EXHIBIT NO.                                        DESCRIPTION

     (c)     Exhibits:

     99(a)   Consumers Energy Company Press Release dated July 6, 2000.

     99(b)   Application for Financing Order, Case No. U-12505, filed July
             5, 2000 by Consumers Energy Company with the Michigan Public
             Service Commission.

     99(c)   Notice of Hearing for the Customers of Consumers Energy
             Company, Case No. U-12505, dated July 3, 2000.

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                                                          Exhibit 99(a)


CONSUMERS ENERGY

                             NEWS
_________________________________________________________________________
A CMS Energy Company         212 West Michigan AvenueTel: 517 788-0333
                             Jackson, MI 49201-2277Fax: 517 788-2397


         JACKSON, Mich., July 6, 2000 -- Consumers Energy, the principal
subsidiary of CMS Energy Corporation (NYSE:CMS), has filed an application
with the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) to begin the
securitization process for approximately $473 million in qualified costs,
in compliance with the State of Michigan's new electric industry
restructuring law.

         Securitization is a common financing technique used in states
which have enacted electric restructuring legislation and typically
involves the issuance of bonds with a credit rating of AAA.  MPSC approval
of the application will allow Consumers Energy to offset the earnings
impact of the five percent rate reduction that was implemented for the
utility's 1.5 million residential electric customers in June as required
by the new restructuring law.  Approval of the application will not
increase electric rates for any of Consumers Energy's customers.

         The application, filed yesterday, requests that the MPSC find
that Consumers Energy's Palisades nuclear plant capital costs (net of
depreciation) and other regulatory assets be identified as "qualified
costs" and therefore eligible for refinancing.  According to the new
restructuring law, the MPSC is required to act on the application within
90 days.  Consumers Energy anticipates that securitization bonds will be
issued at the earliest by the end of 2000.

         Consumers Energy, the principal subsidiary of CMS Energy
Corporation, is Michigan's largest utility providing natural gas and
electricity to more than six million of the state's nine and one-half
million residents in all 68 Lower Peninsula counties.

                                   # # #

For more information about Consumers Energy, visit our Website at
www.consumersenergy.com

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<PAGE>

                                                         Exhibit 99(b)

                             STATE OF MICHIGAN

               BEFORE THE MICHIGAN PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

In the Matter of the Application of              )
Consumers Energy Company for a Financing         )
Order Approving the Securitization of its        )       Case No. U-12505
Regulatory Assets and other Qualified Costs.     )
________________________________________________

                      APPLICATION FOR FINANCING ORDER

        NOW COMES Consumers Energy Company and, pursuant to 2000 PA 141,
2000 PA 142, the Michigan Administrative Procedures Act, MCL 24. 201 et
seq.; MSA 3.560(101) et seq., MCL 460.1 et seq., as amended, and other
applicable law, hereby applies to the Michigan Public Service Commission
for a financing order approving the issuance of securitization bonds for
the qualified costs set forth in this Application and the accompanying
testimony and exhibits, stating as follows:

                           IDENTITY OF APPLICANT

        1.  Consumers Energy Company ("Consumers") is an electric utility
company subject to the regulatory authority of the Michigan Public Service
Commission (the "Commission").  Consumers provides electric service in 62
of 68 counties in the Lower Peninsula of the state, serving more than 1.6
million customers in 1,109 incorporated cities, townships and villages, as
set forth at Sheet Nos. A-17.00 et seq. of Consumers' Schedule of Rates
Governing the Sale of Electric Service, M.P.S.C. No. 12- Electric,
Consumers Energy Company.

                     STATEMENT OF STATUTORY AUTHORITY

        2.  On June 3, 2000, Governor Engler signed into law 2000 PA 141
("Act 141") and 2000 PA 142 ("Act 142").  These new statutes provide for
the introduction of competition into Michigan's electricity marketplace
and for a method of securitization financing of certain costs designed to
facilitate that fundamental change.

        3.  Act 141 provides for a rate reduction of 5% for retail
customers of certain electric utilities, including Consumers.  SEE, Act
141, Section 10d(1).  In order to provide for the specified rate
reduction, Act 141 provides that securitization may be used.  SEE, Act
141, Section 10d(4).

        4.  Act 142 provides that electric utilities may recover
"qualified costs" if the Commission issues a "financing order" approving
the issuance of securitization bonds.  SEE, Act 142, Section 10i(1).
These securities are designed to lower the cost of capital of the electric
company, to fund the rate reduction mandated by Act 141, supra, and to
otherwise reduce stranded costs by authorizing the recovery of other costs
that an electric utility would not be likely to recover in a competitive
market.

        5.  Act 142 defines "qualified costs" as follows:

                (g) "Qualified costs" means an electric utility's
        regulatory assets as determined by the commission,
        adjusted by the applicable portion of related investment
        tax credits, plus any costs that the commission determines
        that the electric utility would be unlikely to collect in
        a competitive market, including but not limited to, retail
        open access implementation costs and the costs of a
        commission approved restructuring, buyout or buy-down of a
        power purchase contract, together with the costs of
        issuing, supporting, and servicing securitization bonds
        and any costs of retiring and refunding the electric
        utility's existing debt and equity securities in
        connection with the issuance of securitization bonds.
        Qualified costs include taxes related to the recovery of
        securitization charges.  [Act 142, Section 10h(g).]

        6.  Act 142, Section 10i(6) requires that the Commission conduct
an "expedited contested case proceeding" to consider the application of an
electric utility for a financing order, and that a determination be made
no later than 90 days after the filing of the application.

                        REQUEST FOR FINANCING ORDER

ELIGIBILITY FOR FINANCING ORDER.

        7.  Consumers is an "electric utility" as that term is defined and
used in Act 142.


<PAGE>

        8.  Consumers has incurred "qualified costs" as that term is
defined and used in Act 142 that are eligible for securitization under
that act.

        9.  Act 142, Section 10i provides in part:

                (1) Upon the application of an electric utility,
        if the commission finds that the net present value of the
        revenues to be collected under the financing order is less
        than the amount that would be recovered over the remaining
        life of the qualified costs using conventional financing
        methods and that the financing order is consistent with
        the standards in subsection (2), the commission shall
        issue a financing order to allow the utility to recover
        qualified costs.

                (2) In a financing order, the commission shall
        ensure all of the following:

                (a) That the proceeds of the securitization bonds
        are used solely for the purposes of the refinancing or
        retirement of debt or equity.

                (b) That securitization provides tangible and
        quantifiable benefits to customers of the electric
        utility.

                (c) That the expected structuring and expected
        pricing of the securitization bonds will result in the
        lowest securitization charges consistent with market
        conditions and the terms of the financing order.

                (d)  That the amount securitized does not exceed
        the net present value of the revenue requirement over the
        life of the proposed securitization bonds associated with
        the qualified costs sought to be securitized.[ID.]

        10.  Act 141, Section 10d  also governs the issuance of a
financing order by the Commission.  That section provides in part:

                (4) If the commission authorizes an electric
        utility to use securitization financing under section 10i
        [of Act 142], any savings resulting from securitization
        shall be used to reduce retail electric rates from those
        authorized or in effect as of May 1, 2000 as required
        under subsection (1).  A rate reduction under this
        subsection shall not be less than the 5% required under
        subsection (1).  The financing order may provide that a
        utility shall only issue securitization bonds in an amount
        equal to or less than requested by the utility, but the
        commission shall not preclude the issuance of an amount of
        securitization bonds sufficient to fund the rate reduction
        required under section 10d(1).[Act 141, Section 10d(4).]

        11.  As more fully explained in the accompanying testimony and
exhibits which are incorporated herein and made a part hereof by
reference, the securitization proposal set forth in this Application meets
all of the statutory requirements set forth in Act 141 and Act 142.

AMOUNT TO BE SECURITIZED AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS.

        12.  As more fully explained in the accompanying testimony and
exhibits, Consumers seeks a financing order that will authorize the
securitization of $472,549,237 of qualified costs.

        13.  Act 142 authorizes an electric utility to assign its rights
in securitization property to another entity and provides certain benefits
and protections.  SEE, Act 142, Section 10h(a), Section 10j-o.  As more
fully explained in the accompanying testimony and exhibits, Consumers will
create one or more special purpose entities and transfer certain
securitization property for the purpose of minimizing bankruptcy risks to
potential securitization bondholders as much as possible and, thus,
maximizing the ratings on the securitization bond.

        14.  Within the context of approving the securitization
transaction in the financing order, Consumers specifically requests the
Commission to approve the transactions involving Consumers and the special
purpose entities, as described in the accompanying testimony and exhibits,
and make any financing order issued in this proceeding applicable to any
transferee, successor or assignee of Consumers in accordance with Act 142.

INITIAL IMPLEMENTATION AND TRUE-UP OF SECURITIZATION AND TAX CHARGES.

        15.  Consumers also requests the Commission to approve the terms
and conditions of the initial implementation of the securitization charges
and tax charges to be collected from Consumers' customers as well as a
periodic true-up mechanism, all as described more fully in the
accompanying testimony and exhibits, and all of which are designed to
result in a "AAA" rating for any securitization bonds issued as the result
of the financing order requested herein.  The mechanisms proposed for
initial implementation and periodic true-up would be approved by the
Commission in the financing order issued in this proceeding for inclusion
in Consumers' electric tariff and would thereafter operate without the
need for further Commission order.

USE OF PROCEEDS.

        16.  Consumers will use proceeds from securitization for
refinancing or retirement of debt or equity as provided in Act 142,
Section 10i(2)(a).

SECURITIZATION SAVINGS.

        17.  After the 5% rate reduction mandated by Act 141, Section
10d(4), Consumers will have insufficient savings to allocate to the low-
income or energy efficiency fund established by Act 141, Section 10d(6) or
to further rate reductions or stranded cost reductions pursuant to Act
141, Section 10d(5).  From any additional savings that become available,
Consumers seeks recovery of certain other qualified costs.  Consumers'
testimony and exhibits discuss these qualified costs, the
creation/continuation of the regulatory assets related to these qualified
costs, their amortization, and any accounting and ratemaking treatment
involved.

        18.  Upon the issuance of a financing order by the Commission,
Consumers will take all other actions necessary to implement the financing
order.

                          TESTIMONY AND EXHIBITS

        19.  The testimony and exhibits accompanying this Application,
which are incorporated herein and made a part hereof by reference,
describe more fully the qualified costs sought to be securitized and
recovered and demonstrate the eligibility of these costs for
securitization pursuant to Act 142.

        WHEREFORE, Consumers respectfully respects this honorable
Commission to take the following actions:

        A.  Issue a financing order applicable to Consumers, its
transferees, successors and assignees, pursuant to Act 142 and other
applicable law, authorizing issuance of securitization bonds for the
qualified costs being securitized on terms and conditions substantially
similar to the terms and conditions set forth in the testimony and
exhibits accompanying this Application.  Such order shall reserve to
Consumers the sole discretion as to whether and when to proceed with a
securitization transaction.

        B.  Authorize Consumers in the financing order to impose a
nonbypassable securitization charge payable to the bond trustee pursuant
to Act 142 as a separate item on customer bills, rendered on and after the
issuance of securitization bonds, sufficient to pay the financing charges,
principal and interest and other costs associated with the issuance,
service and/or support of the securitization bonds as described in the
accompanying testimony and exhibits.

        C.  Authorize Consumers to impose at the same time a nonbypassable
tax charge sufficient for Consumers to pay taxes due on securitization
charge revenues, as more fully explained in the accompanying testimony and
exhibits.

        D.  Authorize Consumers to include necessary language in its
tariffs to accomplish the imposition of the above-referenced nonbypassable
securitization and tax charges and initially implement and periodically
true-up the charges described above, all as proposed and more fully
explained in the accompanying testimony and exhibits.

        E.  Authorize Consumers to employ appropriate methodology to
account for the transactions contemplated by the financing order,
including granting any additional accounting authority and ratemaking
treatment, as proposed and more fully explained in the accompanying
testimony and exhibits.

        F.  Grant to Consumers, pursuant to Act 142, Section 10i(9), the
authority to refund and retire any or all of the securitization bonds that
are issued in this proceeding upon demonstration that securitization
charges to service new securitization bonds, including transaction costs,
will be less than the future securitization charges required to service
the securitization bonds being refunded.

        G.  Approve transfers of the financing order issued in this
proceeding and rights thereunder to any transferee, successor or assignee
of Consumers in accordance with Act 142.


<PAGE>

        H.  Grant such other and further relief as may be lawful and
appropriate.

                                 Respectfully submitted,
                                 CONSUMERS ENERGY COMPANY

                                 By:  /s/Dennis DaPra
                                      _________________
                                         Dennis DaPra

Dated:  July 5, 2000

/s/David A. Mikelonis
David A. Mikelonis (P-17709)
John C. Shea (P-36854)
212 West Michigan Avenue
Jackson, Michigan 49201
Attorneys for Consumers Energy Company
Tel:  (517) 788-2112
Email address:  jcshea@cmsenergy.com


<PAGE>  9


                             STATE OF MICHIGAN

               BEFORE THE MICHIGAN PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

In the matter of the application of              )
Consumers Energy Company for a Financing         )
Order Approving the Securitization of its        )       Case No. U-12505
Regulatory Assets and other Qualified Costs.     )
_________________________________________________)

                               VERIFICATION

STATE OF MICHIGAN        )
                         )SS
COUNTY OF JACKSON        )

        DENNIS DAPRA, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is
the Vice President and Controller for Consumers Energy Company, that he
has executed the foregoing Application for and on behalf of Consumers
Energy Company; that he has read the foregoing Application and is familiar
with the contents thereof; that the facts contained therein are true and
correct to the best of his information knowledge and belief; and that he
is duly authorized to execute and file such Application on behalf of
Consumers Energy Company.


                                 /s/Dennis DaPra
                                 ___________________
                                    Dennis DaPra


        Subscribed and sworn to before me this 5th day of July, 2000.

                                 /s/ Karen E. Kurzynowski
                                 _________________________
                                 Karen E. Kurzynowski
                                 Notary Public, Jackson County, Michigan
                                 My Commission expires: December 7, 2003

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<PAGE>

                                                            Exhibit 99(c)

                            S T A T E   O F   M I C H I G A N

                      BEFORE THE MICHIGAN PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

                                         * * * * *

                                    NOTICE OF HEARING
                                   FOR THE CUSTOMERS OF

                                 CONSUMERS ENERGY COMPANY
                                     CASE NO. U-12505

*      Consumers Energy Company may issue securitization bonds of
       approximately $500,000,000 if the Michigan Public Service Commission
       approves its request.

*      CUSTOMERS WILL SEE NO INCREASE IN THEIR MONTHLY BILLS AS A RESULT OF
       COMMISSION APPROVAL OF THIS REQUEST.

*      The information below describes how a person may participate in this
       case.

*      You may call or write Consumers Energy Company, 212 West Michigan
       Avenue, Jackson, Michigan  49201, 517.788.0224 for a free copy of its
       application.  Any person may review the application at Consumers'
       offices.

*      The public hearing in this matter will be held:

                 DATE:              July 17, 2000
                                    This hearing will be a prehearing
                                    conference.

                 TIME:              9:00 a.m.

                 LOCATION:          Michigan Public Service Commission
                                    6545 Mercantile Way, Suite 7
                                    Lansing, Michigan

                 PARTICIPATION:     Any interested person may attend and
                                    participate.  Persons with disabilities
                                    needing help to effectively participate
                                    should call the Commission's Executive
                                    Secretary at 517. 241.6160 or 800.292.9555 a
                                    week in advance to request mobility, visual,
                                    hearing or other assistance.

       The Michigan Public Service Commission (Commission) will hold a
public hearing to consider Consumers Energy Company's (Consumers) July 5,
2000 application requesting authorization for the securitization of
certain of Consumers' regulatory assets and other qualified costs as
defined in 2000 PA 142 (Act 142).  Act 142 requires the Commission to,
among other things, determine whether Consumers should be permitted to
reduce its debt and/or equity capitalization through securitization. The
application also requests the Commission to consider and decide what other
relief, if any, should be authorized for Consumers to implement
securitization.

       Further, the application states that if the Commission approves the
application as filed, the company (1) will be permitted to securitize
approximately $470,000,000 of its regulatory assets and other qualified
costs estimated to be $30,000,000; (2) will use proceeds from
securitization for the purposes set forth in 2000 Public Acts 141 and 142,
including costs to issue, service and support the securitization bonds,
and to retire Consumers' debt and/or equity; and (3) will collect
securitization charges from its customers, as mandated by Act 142.

       Act 142 requires this proceeding to be concluded 90 days from the
date of the application. To meet this requirement, the proceeding will
follow the schedule below:

       July 5, 2000            Filing of application, testimony and exhibits
       July 5, 2000            Discovery begins
       July 14, 2000           Interventions due
       July 17, 2000           Prehearing conference
       August 2, 2000          Prefiled testimony and exhibits due from all
                               parties
       August 9, 2000          Prefiled rebuttal testimony and exhibits due from
                               Consumers for filings made on August 2nd and from
                               other parties of each other
       August 14-18, 2000      Cross-examination of all prefiled testimony
       August 30, 2000         Simultaneous initial briefs due
       September 6, 2000       Simultaneous reply briefs due
       No later than
       October 3, 2000         Commission order


<PAGE>

       The Commission has selected this case for participation in its
Electronic Filings program.  All documents filed in this case must be
submitted in both paper and electronic versions.  An original and four
paper copies and an electronic copy in the portable document format (PDF)
should be filed with the Commission.  Requirements for filing electronic
documents can be found in the Commission's Electronic Filings Users Manual
at: http://ermisbbs.cis.state.mi.us/efile/usersmanual.pdf.  Contact
Commission Staff at 800.292.9555, 517.241.6170 or by E-mail at
efile@ermisbbs.cis.state.mi.us PRIOR TO FILING TO OBTAIN ACCESS PRIVILEGES
AND WITH ANY QUESTIONS.

       Any person wishing to intervene and become a party to the case shall
file an original and four paper copies and an electronic copy in the
portable document format (PDF) of a petition to intervene with this
Commission by July 14, 2000.  The proof of service shall indicate service
upon Consumers at Consumers Energy Company, Legal Department, 212 W.
Michigan Avenue, Jackson, Michigan  49201.

       A member of the public who wishes to make a statement of position
without becoming a party to the case may participate by filing an
appearance.  To file the appearance, you must attend the hearing and
advise the presiding administrative law judge of your wish to make a
statement of position.

       A copy of Consumers' request may also be reviewed at the office of
the Commission's Executive Secretary, 6545 Mercantile Way, Lansing,
Michigan, and at the office of Consumers Energy Company, 212 West
Michigan, Jackson, Michigan.  For more information on how to participate
in a case, you may contact the Commission at the above address or by
telephone at 517.241.6170 or 800.292.9555.

       The Commission has jurisdiction pursuant to 1909 PA 106, as amended,
MCL 460.551 et seq.; MSA 22.151 et seq.; 1919 PA 419, as amended, MCL
460.51 et seq.; MSA 22.1 et seq.; 1939 PA 3, as amended, MCL 460.1
et seq.; MSA 22.13(1) et seq.; 1969 PA 306, as amended, MCL 24.201
et seq.; MSA 3.560(101) et seq.; 2000 PA 141; 2000 PA 142; and the
Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, as amended, 1992 AACS,
R 460.17101 et seq.

July 3, 2000
Lansing, Michigan

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