-----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, EBo1/KCsqFPzz/cAzQSsIlzws46DltfGCDaEkipxZ0+uSG9aVDzDUEuIYimAvwjq wlB5+1HmEbGhhR7mfAQLoQ== 0000070145-02-000040.txt : 20020523 0000070145-02-000040.hdr.sgml : 20020523 20020523134350 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000070145-02-000040 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 35-CERT PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20020523 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: NATIONAL FUEL GAS CO CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000070145 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION [4924] IRS NUMBER: 131086010 STATE OF INCORPORATION: NJ FISCAL YEAR END: 0930 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 35-CERT SEC ACT: 1935 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 070-09117 FILM NUMBER: 02660788 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 10 LAFAYETTE SQ CITY: BUFFALO STATE: NY ZIP: 14203 BUSINESS PHONE: 7168576980 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 10 LAFAYETTE SQ STREET 2: 10 LAFAYETTE SQ CITY: BUFFALO STATE: NY ZIP: 14203 35-CERT 1 sip-nim2q02.htm RULE 24, 70-9117 seventeenth-9117

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BEFORE THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C.

IN THE MATTER OF
NATIONAL FUEL GAS COMPANY,                                                   17th CERTIFICATE
SENECA INDEPENDENCE PIPELINE COMPANY,                           PURSUANT TO RULE 24
NIAGARA INDEPENDENCE MARKETING COMPANY,
ET AL.
FILE NO. 70-9117
(Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935)

        This is to certify, pursuant to Rule 24 under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended, that the transactions referred to below have been carried out in accordance with the terms and conditions of and for the purpose represented by the Declarations of National Fuel Gas Company (“National”), Seneca Independence Pipeline Company (“Seneca”), and Niagara Independence Marketing Company (“Niagara”), et al., as amended, in the above file and pursuant to the Order, dated March 13, 1998, of the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect thereto (“Order”).

     The following exhibits are attached to and made a part of this Certificate:

     Exhibit A    Income Statement of Seneca for the quarter ended March 31, 2002 (Confidential Treatment Requested Pursuant to Rule 104(b)).
     Exhibit B    Balance Sheet of Seneca as of March 31, 2002 (Confidential Treatment Requested Pursuant to Rule 104(b)).
     Exhibit C    Income Statement of Niagara for the quarter ended March 31, 2002 (Confidential Treatment Requested Pursuant to Rule 104(b)).
     Exhibit D    Balance Sheet of Niagara as of March 31, 2002 (Confidential Treatment Requested Pursuant to Rule 104(b)).
     Exhibit E    Seneca’s Allocated Share of the Profits/Losses of Independence Pipeline Company for the quarter ended March 31, 2002 (Confidential Treatment Requested Pursuant to Rule 104(b)).
     Exhibit F    Niagara’s Allocated Share of the Profits/Losses of DirectLink Gas Marketing Company for the quarter ended March 31, 2002 (Confidential Treatment Requested Pursuant to Rule 104(b)).

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned companies have caused this Certificate to be executed as of this 22nd day of May, 2002.

 NATIONAL FUEL GAS COMPANY
 
 By:   /s/ J. R. Peterson
        J. R. Peterson
        Assistant Secretary


 SENECA INDEPENDENCE PIPELINE COMPANY
 
 By:   /s/ W. E. DeForest
        W. E. DeForest
          President, Secretary and Treasurer


 NIAGARA INDEPENDENCE PIPELINE COMPANY
 
 By:   /s/ D. P. Butler
         D. P. Butler
          Secretary
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