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                                     Registration Statement No. 


                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                           Washington, D.C.  20549

                                             

 
                                      TO

                                   Form S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT

                                     Under

                          THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933


                              SCANA Corporation                               
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 

                               South Carolina                                  
        (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)         
    

                                 57-0784499                                   
                       (I.R.S. employer identification number)


               1426 Main Street, Columbia, South Carolina         29201       
                 (Address of principal executive offices)       (Zip code)


                      Nonemployee Director Stock Plan                         
                         (Full title of the plan)


                                 H. T. Arthur
           Vice President and General Counsel and Assistant Secretary
                               SCANA Corporation
               1426 Main Street, Columbia, South Carolina  29201              
                    (Name and address of agent for service)


                                (803) 376-8547                                 
       (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)


                                  Copy To:

                             Elizabeth B. Anders
                            McNair Law Firm, P. A.
                             1301 Gervais Street
                                  17th Floor
                             Columbia, SC  29201
                               (803) 799-9800




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                            CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

                                  Proposed      Proposed
   Title of                       maximum       maximum
  securities         Amount       offering      aggregate      Amount of
    to be            to be        price per     offering      registration
 registered(1)     registered     share(2)      price(2)        fee(2)

Common Stock,
no par value       100,000 shares   26 1/8      $2,612,500        $792         
      


(1)  Estimated pursuant to Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended, solely for the purpose of calculating the
registration fee based on the average of the high and low prices
for the Common Stock of SCANA Corporation (the "Company") as
reported on the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. Composite
Transactions Reporting System on December 27, 1996.  



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Part II

Item 3.  Incorporation Of Documents By Reference

     This Registration Statement on Form S-8 hereby incorporates
the following documents which are not presented herein:

      1) SCANA Corporation's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
         year ended December 31, 1995, as amended.
      2) SCANA Corporation's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q
         for the periods ended March 31, 1996, June 30, 1996
         and September 30, 1996.
      3) Description of Common Stock of SCANA Corporation as set 
         forth in the Registration Statement for Common Stock of
         SCANA Corporation under the Exchange Act on Form 8-B
         dated November 6, 1984, as amended May 26, 1995.


All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which
indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which
deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed
to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement
and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such
documents.  Any statement contained in a document incorporated or
deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to
be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration
Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in
any other subsequently filed document that also is or is deemed
to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes
such statement.  Any such statement so modified or superseded
shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to
constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

Item 4.  Description of Securities.
         Not Applicable

Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

     At December 15, 1996, H. T. Arthur, who is Vice President,
General Counsel and Assistant Secretary, and a full-time employee
of the Company, owned beneficially 3,700.482 shares of SCANA
Corporation Common Stock.  The shares held by Mr. Arthur include
shares acquired by the Trustee under the Company's Stock
Purchase-Savings Plan by use of contributions made by Mr. Arthur
and earnings thereon, and shares purchased by the Trustee by use
of SCANA Corporation contributions and earnings thereon.




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Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers

     The South Carolina Business Corporation Act of 1988 permits,
and the Registrant's By-Laws require, indemnification of the
Registrant's directors and officers in a variety of
circumstances, which may include indemnification for liabilities
under the Securities Act.  Under Sections 33-8-510, 33-8-550 and
33-8-560 of the South Carolina Business Corporation Act of 1988,
a South Carolina corporation is authorized generally to indemnify
its directors and officers in civil or criminal actions if they
acted in good faith and reasonably believed their conduct to be
in the best interests of the corporation and, in the case of
criminal actions, had no reasonable cause to believe that the
conduct was unlawful.  The Registrant's By-Laws require
indemnification of directors and officers with respect to
expenses actually and necessarily incurred by them in connection
with the defense or settlement of any action, suit or proceeding
in which they are made parties  by  reason of  having been  a
director  or  officer, except in relation to matters as to which
they shall be adjudged to be liable for willful misconduct in the
performance of duty and to such matters as shall be settled by
agreement predicated on the existence of such liability.  In
addition, the Registrant carries insurance on behalf of
directors, officers, employees or agents that may cover
liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933.  As permitted by
Section 33-2-102 of the South Carolina Business Corporation Act
of 1988, the Registrant's Restated Articles of Incorporation
provide that no director of the corporation shall be liable to
the corporation or its shareholders for monetary damages for
breach of his fiduciary duty as a director occurring after April
26, 1989, except for (i) any breach of the director's duty of
loyalty to the Registrant or its shareholders, (ii) acts or
omissions not in good faith or which involve gross negligence,
intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii)
certain unlawful distributions, or (iv) any transaction from
which the director derived an improper personal benefit.  

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.
        Not Applicable

Item 8. Exhibits 

     Exhibits required to be filed with this Registration
Statement are listed in the Exhibit Index immediately following
the signature page.  Certain of such exhibits which have
heretofore been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
and which are designated by reference to their exhibit numbers in
prior filings are hereby incorporated herein by reference and
made a part hereof.  

Item 9. Undertakings

The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

     (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are
being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration
statement to include any material information with respect to the
plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration
statement or any material change to such information in the
registration statement;



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     (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under
the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment
shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to
the securities offered therein, and the offering of such
securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof;

     (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
amendment any of the securities being registered which remain
unsold at the termination of the offering; and

      (4) That, for purposes of determining any liability under
the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant's
annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each
filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to
Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is
incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be
deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering
thereof.

     Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers
and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the
foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been
advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as
expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the
event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities
(other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or
paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the
Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling
person in connection with the securities being registered, the
Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of
appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in
the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such
issue.



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                            SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it
meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly
caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Columbia, State
of South Carolina, on this 30th day of December 1996.

(REGISTRANT)                     SCANA Corporation



By:                              s/L. M. Gressette, Jr.
(Name & Title):                  L. M. Gressette, Jr., Chairman of the
                                 Board, Chief Executive Officer and
                                 Director

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the date indicated.

  (i) Principal executive officer:



By:                              s/L. M. Gressette, Jr.
(Name & Title):                  L. M. Gressette, Jr., Chairman of the
                                 Board, Chief Executive Officer and
                                 Director
Date:                            December 30, 1996      

 (ii) Principal financial and accounting officer:



By:                              s/K. B. Marsh    
(Name & Title):                  K. B. Marsh, Vice-President-Finance
                                 Chief Financial Officer and
                                 Controller
Date:                            December 30, 1996

(iii) Other Directors:

* B. L. Amick, W. B. Bookhart, Jr., W. T. Cassels, Jr., Hugh M.
Chapman, James B. Edwards, E. T. Freeman, B. A. Hagood, W. Hayne Hipp,
F. C. McMaster, H. Ponder, J. B. Rhodes, E. C. Wall, Jr.

* Signed on behalf of each of these persons:



   s/K. B. Marsh    
   K. B. Marsh    
   (Attorney-in-Fact)
   December 30, 1996      

Directors who did not sign:

       None


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                             EXHIBIT INDEX
 
 
                                                                 Sequentially
                                                                   Numbered
                                                                    Pages
  Number
 
     4.  Instruments Defining the Rights of Security
         Holders, Including Indentures
         
         4.1  Restated Articles of Incorporation of SCANA 
              Corporation as adopted on April 26, 1989
              (Exhibit 3-A to Registration Statement No.
              33-49145)...........................................    #

         4.2  Copy of By-Laws of SCANA Corporation as revised 
              and amended on June 18, 1996 (Exhibit 4B to
              Registration Statement No. 333-18149)...............    #

         4.3  Copy of SCANA Corporation Nonemployee Director Stock
              Plan effective January 1, 1997 (Filed herewith).....    8   

   
     5.  Opinion Re Legality (Filed herewith).....................   14 

    15.  Letter Re Unaudited Interim Financial Information
         Not applicable

    23.  Consents of Experts and Counsel

         (a) Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP (Filed herewith)....   15    
         (b) Consent of H. T. Arthur (Included in his opinion
             in Exhibit 5)
 
    24.  Power of Attorney (Filed herewith).......................   16       

    99.  Additional Exhibits
         Not applicable



# Incorporated herein by reference as indicated.



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Registration Statement No. 

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                           Washington, D.C.  20549

                                             

 
                                      TO

                                   Form S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT

                                     Under

                          THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                              SCANA Corporation                               
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 

                               South Carolina                                  
        (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)         
    

                                 57-0784499                                   
                       (I.R.S. employer identification number)

               1426 Main Street, Columbia, South Carolina         29201       
                 (Address of principal executive offices)       (Zip code)

                      Nonemployee Director Stock Plan                         
                         (Full title of the plan)

                                 H. T. Arthur
           Vice President and General Counsel and Assistant Secretary
                               SCANA Corporation
               1426 Main Street, Columbia, South Carolina  29201              
                    (Name and address of agent for service)

                                (803) 376-8547                                 
       (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

                                  Copy To:

                             Elizabeth B. Anders
                            McNair Law Firm, P. A.
                             1301 Gervais Street
                                  17th Floor
                             Columbia, SC  29201
                               (803) 799-9800
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

                                  Proposed      Proposed
   Title of                       maximum       maximum
  securities         Amount       offering      aggregate      Amount of
    to be            to be        price per     offering      registration
 registered(1)     registered     share(2)      price(2)        fee(2)

Common Stock,
no par value       100,000 shares   26 1/8      $2,612,500        $792         
      

(1)  Estimated pursuant to Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended, solely for the purpose of calculating the
registration fee based on the average of the high and low prices
for the Common Stock of SCANA Corporation (the "Company") as
reported on the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. Composite
Transactions Reporting System on December 27, 1996.  

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Part II

Item 3.  Incorporation Of Documents By Reference

     This Registration Statement on Form S-8 hereby incorporates
the following documents which are not presented herein:

      1) SCANA Corporation's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
         year ended December 31, 1995, as amended.
      2) SCANA Corporation's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q
         for the periods ended March 31, 1996, June 30, 1996
         and September 30, 1996.
      3) Description of Common Stock of SCANA Corporation as set 
         forth in the Registration Statement for Common Stock of
         SCANA Corporation under the Exchange Act on Form 8-B
         dated November 6, 1984, as amended May 26, 1995.

All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which
indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which
deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed
to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement
and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such
documents.  Any statement contained in a document incorporated or
deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to
be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration
Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in
any other subsequently filed document that also is or is deemed
to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes
such statement.  Any such statement so modified or superseded
shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to
constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

Item 4.  Description of Securities.
         Not Applicable

Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

     At December 15, 1996, H. T. Arthur, who is Vice President,
General Counsel and Assistant Secretary, and a full-time employee
of the Company, owned beneficially 3,700.482 shares of SCANA
Corporation Common Stock.  The shares held by Mr. Arthur include
shares acquired by the Trustee under the Company's Stock
Purchase-Savings Plan by use of contributions made by Mr. Arthur
and earnings thereon, and shares purchased by the Trustee by use
of SCANA Corporation contributions and earnings thereon.

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Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers

     The South Carolina Business Corporation Act of 1988 permits,
and the Registrant's By-Laws require, indemnification of the
Registrant's directors and officers in a variety of
circumstances, which may include indemnification for liabilities
under the Securities Act.  Under Sections 33-8-510, 33-8-550 and
33-8-560 of the South Carolina Business Corporation Act of 1988,
a South Carolina corporation is authorized generally to indemnify
its directors and officers in civil or criminal actions if they
acted in good faith and reasonably believed their conduct to be
in the best interests of the corporation and, in the case of
criminal actions, had no reasonable cause to believe that the
conduct was unlawful.  The Registrant's By-Laws require
indemnification of directors and officers with respect to
expenses actually and necessarily incurred by them in connection
with the defense or settlement of any action, suit or proceeding
in which they are made parties  by  reason of  having been  a
director  or  officer, except in relation to matters as to which
they shall be adjudged to be liable for willful misconduct in the
performance of duty and to such matters as shall be settled by
agreement predicated on the existence of such liability.  In
addition, the Registrant carries insurance on behalf of
directors, officers, employees or agents that may cover
liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933.  As permitted by
Section 33-2-102 of the South Carolina Business Corporation Act
of 1988, the Registrant's Restated Articles of Incorporation
provide that no director of the corporation shall be liable to
the corporation or its shareholders for monetary damages for
breach of his fiduciary duty as a director occurring after April
26, 1989, except for (i) any breach of the director's duty of
loyalty to the Registrant or its shareholders, (ii) acts or
omissions not in good faith or which involve gross negligence,
intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii)
certain unlawful distributions, or (iv) any transaction from
which the director derived an improper personal benefit.  

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.
        Not Applicable

Item 8. Exhibits 

     Exhibits required to be filed with this Registration
Statement are listed in the Exhibit Index immediately following
the signature page.  Certain of such exhibits which have
heretofore been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
and which are designated by reference to their exhibit numbers in
prior filings are hereby incorporated herein by reference and
made a part hereof.  

Item 9. Undertakings

The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

     (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are
being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration
statement to include any material information with respect to the
plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration
statement or any material change to such information in the
registration statement;

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(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under
the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment
shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to
the securities offered therein, and the offering of such
securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof;

     (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
amendment any of the securities being registered which remain
unsold at the termination of the offering; and

      (4) That, for purposes of determining any liability under
the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant's
annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each
filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to
Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is
incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be
deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering
thereof.

     Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers
and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the
foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been
advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as
expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the
event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities
(other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or
paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the
Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling
person in connection with the securities being registered, the
Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of
appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in
the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such
issue.

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SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it
meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly
caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Columbia, State
of South Carolina, on this 30th day of December 1996.

(REGISTRANT)                     SCANA Corporation

By:                              s/L. M. Gressette, Jr.
(Name & Title):                  L. M. Gressette, Jr., Chairman of the
                                 Board, Chief Executive Officer and
                                 Director

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the date indicated.

  (i) Principal executive officer:

By:                              s/L. M. Gressette, Jr.
(Name & Title):                  L. M. Gressette, Jr., Chairman of the
                                 Board, Chief Executive Officer and
                                 Director
Date:                            December 30, 1996      

 (ii) Principal financial and accounting officer:

By:                              s/K. B. Marsh    
(Name & Title):                  K. B. Marsh, Vice-President-Finance
                                 Chief Financial Officer and
                                 Controller
Date:                            December 30, 1996

(iii) Other Directors:

* B. L. Amick, W. B. Bookhart, Jr., W. T. Cassels, Jr., Hugh M.
Chapman, James B. Edwards, E. T. Freeman, B. A. Hagood, W. Hayne Hipp,
F. C. McMaster, H. Ponder, J. B. Rhodes, E. C. Wall, Jr.

* Signed on behalf of each of these persons:

   s/K. B. Marsh    
   K. B. Marsh    
   (Attorney-in-Fact)
   December 30, 1996      

Directors who did not sign:

       None

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EXHIBIT INDEX
 
 
                                                                 Sequentially
                                                                   Numbered
                                                                    Pages
  Number
 
     4.  Instruments Defining the Rights of Security
         Holders, Including Indentures
         
         4.1  Restated Articles of Incorporation of SCANA 
              Corporation as adopted on April 26, 1989
              (Exhibit 3-A to Registration Statement No.
              33-49145)...........................................    #

         4.2  Copy of By-Laws of SCANA Corporation as revised 
              and amended on June 18, 1996 (Exhibit 4B to
              Registration Statement No. 333-18149)...............    #

         4.3  Copy of SCANA Corporation Nonemployee Director Stock
              Plan effective January 1, 1997 (Filed herewith).....    8   

   
     5.  Opinion Re Legality (Filed herewith).....................   14 

    15.  Letter Re Unaudited Interim Financial Information
         Not applicable

    23.  Consents of Experts and Counsel

         (a) Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP (Filed herewith)....   15    
         (b) Consent of H. T. Arthur (Included in his opinion
             in Exhibit 5)
 
    24.  Power of Attorney (Filed herewith).......................   16       

    99.  Additional Exhibits
         Not applicable

# Incorporated herein by reference as indicated.

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