SEC Company Response from TERRA INDUSTRIES INC (CIK 0000722079) — Mar 29, 2005
TERRA INDUSTRIES INC (CIK 0000722079)
Date: March 29, 2005 · CIK: 0000722079 · Accession: 0001193125-05-063441
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Acceleration Request
TERRA INDUSTRIES INC.
Terra Centre
600 Fourth Street
P.O. Box 6000
Sioux City, Iowa 51102
March 29, 2005
VIA TELECOPY AND EDGAR
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Plaza, N.W.
Judiciary Plaza
Washington, DC 20549
Attn: Mellissa Campbell Duru
Fax: (202) 942-9528
Re:
Terra Industries Inc.
Registration Statement on Form S-3
(SEC File No. 333-121835 Originally Filed January 4, 2005)
Ladies and Gentlemen:
On behalf of Terra Industries Inc. (the “Company”), the undersigned hereby requests acceleration of the effective date of the Company’s
Registration Statement on Form S-3 (SEC File No. 333-121835) to 2:00 p.m., Eastern time, on March 30, 2005, or as soon thereafter as possible.
The Company hereby acknowledges its responsibilities under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Exchange Act as they relate to the proposed public offering
of the securities specified in the above-referenced Registration Statement.
The Company acknowledges that should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the
filing; the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the Company from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing;
and the Company may not assert this action as defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.
Please call Gerald T. Nowak of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, special counsel to the Company, at (312) 861-2075, as soon as the
Registration Statement has been declared effective.
Very truly yours,
Terra Industries Inc.
/s/ Mark A. Kalafut
Name: Mark A. Kalafut
Title: Vice President, General Counsel
and Corporate Secretary
cc: Kirkland & Ellis LLP