File No. 70-8417


               SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                      Washington, DC 20549



                     AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
                          FORM U-1


                 APPLICATION OR DECLARATION
                           under
         PUBLIC UTILITY HOLDING COMPANY ACT OF 1935

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National Fuel Gas Company               Leidy Hub, Inc.
30 Rockefeller Plaza                    10 Lafayette Square
New York, NY 10112                      Buffalo, NY 14203


             (Name of company filing this statement
           and address of principal executive offices)

____________________________________________________________

                    NATIONAL FUEL GAS COMPANY

            (Name of top registered holding company)

____________________________________________________________

Walter E. DeForest,                Bernard J. Kennedy, 
  President                          President
Leidy Hub, Inc.                    National Fuel Gas Company
10 Lafayette Square                30 Rockefeller Plaza
Buffalo, NY  14203                 New York, NY 10112

           (Names and addresses of agents for service)

It is respectfully requested that the Commission send copies
of all notices, orders and communications to:

                      Paul N. Edwards, Esq.
                   Phillips, Lytle, Hitchcock,
                         Blaine & Huber
                   3400 Marine Midland Center
                       Buffalo, NY  14203



Item 5 is hereby amended to add:


      The Applicants hereby request that certain information 
contained in the Exhibits hereto, as indicated in the index 
to Exhibits (the "Information") be kept confidential 
pursuant to Rule 104(b) [17 CFR Section 250.104(b)].

      Public disclosure of the Information is not necessary 
or appropriate in the public interest or for the protection 
of investors or consumers.  The Information describes the 
startup costs, overhead and projected earnings of the 
proposed partnership Ellisburg-Leidy Northeast Hub Company, 
and the financial effect of those transactions on Leidy Hub, 
Inc. and on the National Fuel Gas Company holding company 
system.

      The amounts involved are orders of magnitude too small 
to be material to either investors or consumers.  Leidy Hub, 
Inc. is seeking the Commission's permission to invest a 
maximum of only $500,000 total in this partnership, and 
would invest any of that money only in response to a call 
for capital which would have to be approved by both Leidy 
Hub, Inc. and its partner (Hub Services, Inc.).

      The people who would be most interested in the 
Information would be the marketers who would be in 
competition with Ellisburg-Leidy Northeast Hub Company, Inc.  
Gas marketers typically operate with a minimal capital 
investment and very tight margins in a highly competitive 
environment.  Anybody who wants to become a gas marketer can 
do so just by investing in business cards, a computer and a 
phone.  In this environment, information on a competitor's 
fixed costs and margins is a valuable trade secret, and is 
treated by all the competitors as confidential, proprietary 
information.

      These competitors can not obtain the Information 
anywhere else.  The Applicants cannot obtain similar 
information about their competitors.  The Applicants firmly 
believe that the investing and consuming public would be 
best served by allowing the Information to remain 
confidential, thereby permitting Ellisburg-Leidy Northeast 
Hub Company to compete on an equal basis with its 
competitors.


NATIONAL FUEL GAS COMPANY       LEIDY HUB, INC.




By:/s/ R. M. DiValerio          By:/s/ W. E. DeForest
   R. M. DiValerio                 W. E. DeForest
    Secretary                       President


May 5, 1994