As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 16, 2002
                                                     Registration No. 333-73648
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549


                         POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1
                                       TO
                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      Under
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                      PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW MEXICO
             (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)


New Mexico                                                           85-0019030
(State or other jurisdiction                                   (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)                              Identification No.)

                                 Alvarado Square
                          Albuquerque, New Mexico 87158
                                 (505) 241-2700
    (Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code,
                  of Registrant's principal executive offices)

         First Restated and Amended Public Service Company of New Mexico
                             Executive Savings Plan
                            (Full title of the Plans)

                                   Max Maerki
                Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
                      Public Service Company of New Mexico
                                 Alvarado Square
                          Albuquerque, New Mexico 87158
                                 (505) 241-2700

            (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
                   including area code, of agent for service)

                                 With Copies To:

                                   C.L. Moore
                             Keleher & McLeod, P.A.
                             414 Silver Avenue, S.W.
                          Albuquerque, New Mexico 87103

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                       DEREGISTRATION OF UNSOLD SECURITIES

     This Post-Effective  Amendment No. 1 relates to the Registration  Statement
(the "Registration Statement") on Form S-8 (Registration No. 333-73648) filed on
November  19, 2001 by the Public  Service  Company of New  Mexico,  a New Mexico
corporation ("PNM") to register (a) unsecured obligations of PNM to pay deferred
compensation  in the future in  accordance  with the First  Restated and Amended
Public Service Company of New Mexico Executive Savings Plan (the "Plan") and (b)
25,000 shares of the common stock of PNM issuable pursuant to the Plan.

     On December  31,  2001,  the Public  Service  Company of New Mexico,  a New
Mexico  corporation  ("PNM"),  adopted a holding company form of  organizational
structure.  The holding  company  reorganization  was  effected  pursuant to the
Agreement and Plan of Share Exchange between PNM and PNM Resources,  Inc., a New
Mexico corporation formerly known as Manzano Corporation ("PNM Resources"). This
agreement  provided for, among other things, a share exchange  pursuant to which
all shares of PNM common stock were exchanged on a one-for-one  basis for shares
of common stock of PNM Resources (the "Share Exchange"). The stockholders of PNM
approved  the  Share  Exchange  on June 6,  2000,  and the  Share  Exchange  was
consummated on December 31, 2001. As a result of the Share Exchange,  PNM became
a wholly-owned subsidiary of PNM Resources.

     This  Post-Effective  Amendment  is being  filed as a result  of the  Share
Exchange and the subsequent adoption of the Plan by PNM Resources. Subsequent to
the Share Exchange,  Plan  participants  who elect to receive shares of stock in
settlement  of accounts  invested in the  hypothetical  company  stock fund will
receive shares of PNM Resources  common stock,  rather than shares of PNM common
stock. Similarly, following the Share Exchange, the performance of PNM Resources
common  stock is used to  determine  earnings  and losses on the portion of Plan
accounts invested in the hypothetical  company stock fund. On November 27, 2002,
PNM Resources  adopted the Plan, was  substituted for PNM as the Plan's sponsor,
and assumed the  unsecured  obligations  to pay  deferred  compensation  to Plan
participants.

     In accordance with an undertaking made by PNM in the Registration Statement
to remove from registration,  by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the
securities  which remain unsold at the  termination of the offering,  PNM hereby
removes from registration the following  registered but unsold  securities:  (i)
the  unsecured  obligations  to pay  deferred  compensation  in the future to in
accordance with the Plan and (ii) 25,000 shares of PNM common stock.



                                   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  post-effective
amendment  to be  signed  on its  behalf  by  the  undersigned,  thereunto  duly
authorized,  in the City of  Albuquerque,  State of New Mexico,  on December 16,
2002.

                                         PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW MEXICO

                                         By:       /s/ J.E. Sterba
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                                               J. E. Sterba, Chairman, President
                                               and Chief Executive Officer


     Pursuant to the  requirements  of the  Securities  Act,  this  Registration
Statement has been signed by the following  persons in their  capacities  and on
the dates indicated.

   Signature                  Capacity                               Date
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/s/ J. E. Sterba        Chairman, President and Chief          December 16, 2002
-------------------     Executive Officer (Principal
J. E. Sterba            Executive Officer); Director


/s/ M. H. Maerki        Senior Vice President and Chief        December 16, 2002
-------------------     Financial Officer (Principal
M. H. Maerki            Financial Officer); Director


/s/ J. R. Loyack        Vice President, Corporate Controller   December 16, 2002
-------------------     and Chief Accounting Officer
J. R. Loyack            (Principal Accounting Officer)


/s/ A. A. Cobb          Director                               December 16, 2002
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A. A. Cobb

/s/ R. J. Flynn         Director                               December 16, 2002
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R. J. Flynn

/s/ E. Padilla, Jr.     Director                               December 16, 2002
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E. Padilla, Jr.

/s/ W. J. Real          Director                               December 16, 2002
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W. J. Real