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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. 15
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File No. 70-7948 :
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(Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935) TRANSACTIONS
___________________________________________ DURING PERIOD
October 1, 1995
through
December 31, 1995
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
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Open Market Purchases 70-7948 - 0 - - 0 -
Stock Incentive Plan 70-7838 1,065 54,935
Long Term Incentive Plan 70-7095 - 0 - 15,533
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Total 1,065 70,468
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During the period 1,065 shares held as Treasury Stock were reissued to
the Alternate Thrift Trust of the Thrift Plans for Consolidated and its
participating subsidiaries. As of December 31, 1995, 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 J. M. Hostetler
Its Attorney
Dated this 31st day
of January, 1996