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File Number 70-8981
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
Amendment No. 4
to
Form U-1
APPLICATION-DECLARATION UNDER THE PUBLIC UTILITY
HOLDING COMPANY ACT OF 1935
By
CONSOLIDATED NATURAL GAS COMPANY
CNG Tower
625 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222-3199
(a registered holding company and the direct
or indirect parent of the other parties)
CNG ENERGY SERVICES CORPORATION
CNG POWER COMPANY
One Park Ridge Center
P.O. Box 15746
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15244-0746
Names and addresses of agents for service:
S. E. WILLIAMS, Senior Vice President
and General Counsel
Consolidated Natural Gas Company
CNG Tower
625 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222-3199
N. F. CHANDLER, General Attorney
Consolidated Natural Gas Service Company, Inc.
CNG Tower
625 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222-3199
<PAGE> 2 File Number 70-8981
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Amendment No. 4
to
FORM U-1
APPLICATION-DECLARATION UNDER THE PUBLIC UTILITY
HOLDING COMPANY ACT OF 1935
Consolidated Natural Gas Company et al. hereby amend the application-
declaration under the above file number as follows.
Item 1. Description of Proposed Transaction
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The phrase "but not less than cost" is added after the word "market"
on the fifth line of the second paragraph under "SERVICE AGREEMENTS WITH
AFFILIATES" on page 5 of Amendment No. 2 to this application-declaration.
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Public Utility Holding Company
Act of 1935, the undersigned companies have duly caused this amendment to
be signed on their respective behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly
authorized.
CONSOLIDATED NATURAL GAS COMPANY
By D. M. Westfall
Senior Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer
CNG ENERGY SERVICES CORPORATION
CNG POWER COMPANY
By N. F. Chandler
Their attorney
Date: January 22, 1998