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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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:
In the Matter of :
CERTIFICATE
:
of
CONSOLIDATED NATURAL GAS COMPANY :
NOTIFICATION
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania :
NO. 8
:
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File No. 70-7948 :
:
(Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935)
TRANSACTIONS
___________________________________________ DURING
PERIOD
January
1, 1994
through
March
31, 1994
TO THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION:
By Order dated May 8, 1992 (HCAR No. 25548) ("May 8,
1992
Order") in the above captioned proceeding, the Securities
and Exchange
Commission ("Commission") permitted the Application-
Declaration of
Consolidated Natural Gas Company ("Consolidated") to become
effective,
thereby authorizing Consolidated to report all of its
acquisitions and
reissuances of its common stock, $2.75 par value per share
("Common
Stock") for its treasury (such shares of Common Stock
referred to as
"Treasury Stock") under the quarterly certificates of
notification
filed under this file number.
The Commission in its May 8, 1992 Order also
authorized
Consolidated to acquire through open market purchases up to
4,000,000
shares of its outstanding Common Stock and to hold such
repurchased
shares as Treasury Stock. Other sources of Treasury Stock
that are to
be reported under this file number are acquisitions by
Consolidated
through the exchange and tax withholding provisions of its
Stock
Incentive Plan ("SIP") as authorized by Commission order
dated
April 10, 1991 (HCAR No. 25294) in file number 70-7838 and
its Long
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Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP") as authorized by supplemental
Commission
order dated December 11, 1991 (HCAR No. 25425) in file
number 70-7095.
The May 8, 1992 Order also authorized Consolidated
to reissue
Treasury Stock: (i) purchased on the open market pursuant
to the
authorization under this file number; (ii) acquired through
the
Company's SIP or LTIP; and (iii) previously acquired on the
open
market pursuant to the authorization under File No. 70-7286.
This Certificate is filed pursuant to Rule 24 as a
notification that the following shares of Common Stock have
been
acquired through the following sources and held as Treasury
Stock:
During
Source File No. Period
Cumulative
______ ________ ______
__________
Open Market Purchases 70-7948 - 0 - -
0 -
Stock Incentive Plan 70-7838 1,087
39,802
Long Term Incentive Plan 70-7095 2,629
10,890
______
_________
Total 3,716
50,692
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During the period 3,716 shares held as Treasury
Stock were
reissued to the Alternate Thrift Trust of the Thrift Plans
for
Consolidated and its participating subsidiaries. As of
March 31,
1994, Consolidated had no shares of Treasury Stock
available.
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The "past-tense" opinion required by paragraph F(2)
of the
instructions as to exhibits for Form U-1 will be filed when
all of the
transactions authorized pursuant to said Orders have been
consummated.
CONSOLIDATED NATURAL GAS
COMPANY
By H. P. Payne, Jr.
Its Attorney
Dated this 29th day
of April, 1994
