JACKSON (AP) — Entergy Corp., as part of a plan to decentralize its operations from New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, is opening a new transmission operations center in the Jackson area. Entergy spokesman Michael Burns said Tuesday that positions would be shifted from all of Entergy’s service areas in Louisiana and Arkansas. Some of the positions will involve transmission contractors, Burns said.In April 2006, after locating its post-storm headquarters in Jackson, Entergy returned to New Orleans and announced a decentralization program for many of its operations. At that time, the company said it would shift some transmission functions to Jackson. In October 2007, Entergy announced a $25 million plan to build a transmission operations center in Jackson that would bring in 200 employees. – – – -Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]