-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, Uuw/oFYQ0Hjbv4QU4a8etU2gUbrYlx7pw07ZEp3qJBQOaRM1DF4JoOKbCwulFdO/ 0nDMpipC2YBSrFgvCN5Ibg== 0000950152-07-004863.txt : 20080717 0000950152-07-004863.hdr.sgml : 20070731 20070601155342 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950152-07-004863 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 10-K/A PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 6 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20060930 FILED AS OF DATE: 20070601 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20070614 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CORNING NATURAL GAS CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000024751 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: NATURAL GAS TRANSMISSION & DISTRIBUTION [4923] IRS NUMBER: 160397420 STATE OF INCORPORATION: NY FISCAL YEAR END: 0930 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 10-K/A SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-00643 FILM NUMBER: 07894269 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 330 W WILLIAM ST STREET 2: P O BOX 58 CITY: CORNING STATE: NY ZIP: 14830 BUSINESS PHONE: 6079363755 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 330 W WILLIAM STREET STREET 2: P O BOX 58 CITY: CORNING STATE: NY ZIP: 14830 10-K/A 1 l26450ae10vkza.htm CORNING NATURAL GAS CORPORATION 10-K/A e10vkza
 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-K/A
AMENDMENT NO. 2
ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2006              Commission file number: 0-643
Corning Natural Gas Corporation
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
     
New York
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  16-0397420
(I.R.S. employer
Identification no.)
330 W. William St.
Corning, New York 14830
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)
(607) 936-3755
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: Common Stock, par value $5.00 per share
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. YES o     NO þ
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. YES o     NO þ
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. YES þ     NO o

 


 

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. þ
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer or a non-accelerated filer.
Large accelerated filer o     Accelerated Filer o     Non-Accelerated Filer þ
Indicate by check mark whether registrant is a shell company YES o     NO þ
The aggregate market value of the 431,852 shares of the Common Stock held by non-affiliates of the Registrant at the $16.30 average of bid and asked prices as of December 1, 2006 was $6,477,780.
Number of shares of Common Stock outstanding as of the close of business on May 15, 2007: 506,918.
EXPLANATION OF AMENDMENT
This Amendment No. 2 on Form 10-K/A amends certain portions of our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 29, 2006 (the “Original Annual Report”) and our Amendment No. 1 to our Annual Report on Form 10-K/A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 29, 2007 (“Amendment No. 1”). In response to a comment letter from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance, we have made an amendment to Item 9A — “Disclosures Controls and Procedures — Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures” to clarify our response to the requirements of Item 307 of Regulation S-K regarding the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined by Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) or 15d-15(e)).
No other amendments have been made, and this Amendment No. 2 on Form 10-K/A does not reflect events occurring after the filing of the Original Annual Report or Amendment No. 1 or modify or update those disclosures affected by subsequent events.
Part II
ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
As of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K, we carried out an evaluation under the supervision and with the participation of our Disclosure Committee and our management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e). Disclosure controls are procedures that are designed to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or the Exchange Act, such as this Annual Report on Form 10-K, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods

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specified by the SEC. Disclosure controls are also designed to ensure that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Our quarterly evaluation of disclosure controls includes an evaluation of some components of our internal control over financial reporting. We also perform a separate annual evaluation of internal control over financial reporting for the purpose of providing the management report below.
The evaluation of our disclosure controls included a review of their objectives and design, the Company’s implementation of the controls and the effect of the controls on the information generated for use in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. In the course of the controls evaluation, we reviewed data errors or control problems identified and sought to confirm that appropriate corrective actions, including process improvements, were being undertaken. This type of evaluation is performed on a quarterly basis so that the conclusions of management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, concerning the effectiveness of the disclosure controls can be reported in our periodic reports on Form 10-Q and Form 10-K. Many of the components of our disclosure controls are also evaluated on an ongoing basis by both our internal audit and finance organizations. The overall goals of these various evaluation activities are to monitor our disclosure controls and to modify them as necessary. We intend to maintain the disclosure controls as dynamic systems that we adjust as circumstances merit.
Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective at the reasonable assurance level as of the end of the period covered by this report.
Part IV
ITEM 15. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
(a) Exhibits filed with this report on Form 10-K/A
31.1  Certification of the Chief Executive Officer and President pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
31.2  Certification of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
32  Certification of the Chief Executive Officer and President and Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
         
  CORNING NATURAL GAS CORPORATION
 
 
  By:   /s/ Michael I. German    
    Michael I. German   
    Chief Executive Officer and President
(Principal Executive Officer
 
 
Date: June 1, 2007
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
     
/s/ Michael I. German
 
Michael I. German
Chief Executive Officer and President
(Principal Executive Officer)
  Date: June 1, 2007
 
   
/s/ Firouzeh Sarhangi
 
Firouzeh Sarhangi
Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
  Date: June 1, 2007
 
   
/s/ Richard M. Osborne
 
Richard M. Osborne
Chairman of the Board
  Date: June 1, 2007
 
   
/s/ Ted W. Gibson
 
Ted W. Gibson
Director
  Date: June 1, 2007
 
   
/s/ Thomas J. Smith
 
Thomas J. Smith
Director
  Date: June 1, 2007

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EX-31.1 2 l26450aexv31w1.htm EXHIBIT 31.1 exv31w1
 

Exhibit 31.1
CERTIFICATE PURSUANT TO
SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
I, Michael I. German, certify that:
  1.   I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of Corning Natural Gas Corporation;
  2.   Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this annual report;
  3.   Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
  4.   The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the registrant and have:
  a)   Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
  b)   Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
  c)   Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
  5.   The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s

 


 

auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent function):
  a)   All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
  b)   Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
         
By:
  /s/ Michael I. German    
 
 
 
Michael I. German
   
 
  Chief Executive Officer and President
   
 
       
Date: June 1, 2007    

 

EX-31.2 3 l26450aexv31w2.htm EXHIBIT 31.2 exv31w2
 

Exhibit 31.2
CERTIFICATE PURSUANT TO
SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
I, Firouzeh Sarhangi, certify that:
  1.   I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of Corning Natural Gas Corporation;
  2.   Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this annual report;
  3.   Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
  4.   The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the registrant and have:
  a)   Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
  b)   Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
  c)   Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
  5.   The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s

 


 

auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent function):
  a)   All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
  b)   Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
         
By:
  /s/ Firouzeh Sarhangi
 
Firouzeh Sarhangi
   
 
  Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer    
 
       
Date: June 1, 2007    

 

EX-32 4 l26450aexv32.htm EXHIBIT 32 exv32
 

Exhibit 32
Corning Natural Gas Corporation
Certification under Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act-filed as part of the 10-K for Year
Ended September 30, 2006
Each of the undersigned hereby certifies in his capacity as an officer of Corning Natural Gas Corporation (the “Company”) that the Annual Report of the Company on Form 10-K for the period ended September 30, 2006 fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and that the information contained in such report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition of the Company at the end of such period and the results of operations of the Company for such period.
         
By:
  /s/ Michael I. German
 
Michael I. German
   
 
  President and Chief Executive Officer    
 
       
Date: June 1, 2007    
 
       
By:
  /s/ Firouzeh Sarhangi    
 
       
 
  Firouzeh Sarhangi    
 
  Chief Financial Officer    
 
       
Date: June 1, 2007    

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June 1, 2007
Via Edgar and Fax
Brian McAllister
Staff Accountant
Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporate Finance
450 Fifth Street, N.W., Mail Stop 3561
Washington, D.C. 20549-0404
     
Re:
  Corning Natural Gas Corporation
Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2006
Filed December 29, 2006
SEC File No. 0-00643
Dear Mr. McAllister,
On behalf of Corning Natural Gas Corporation and pursuant to our telephone conversations, attached please find a copy of Amendment No. 2 to Form 10-K/A addressing the comments of the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission contained in Michael Moran’s letter to Mr. Michael German dated May 10, 2007.
Please let us know if we can provide you with any further information regarding this matter. You can reach me at 216-736-7215 or my partner, Marc C. Krantz, at 216-736-7204.
Sincerely,
/s/ Christopher J. Hubbert
Christopher J. Hubbert
     
cc:
  Michael Moran
Michael I. German
Marc C. Krantz
Michele L. Hoza


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