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File No. 70-7803
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
TWENTY-NINTH CERTIFICATE OF NOTIFICATION PURSUANT TO RULE 24
UNDER
THE PUBLIC UTILITY HOLDING COMPANY ACT OF 1935
National Fuel Gas Company
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, New York 10112
(Name of company or companies filing this statement
and addresses of principal executive offices)
NATIONAL FUEL GAS COMPANY
(Name of top registered holding company)
R.M. DiValerio P.C. Ackerman
Secretary Sr. Vice President
National Fuel Gas Company National Fuel Gas Company
10 Lafayette Square 10 Lafayette Square
Buffalo, New York 14203 Buffalo, New York 14203
(Names and addresses of agents for service)
The Commission is requested to send copies of all notices, orders and
communications in connection with this declaration to:
E. Ellsworth McMeen, III, Esq.
LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae
125 West 55th Street
New York, New York 10022
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Applicant, National Fuel Gas Company (the "Company"), filed an
Application-Declaration on Form U-l under the Public Utility Holding
Company Act of 1935 (the "Act") relating to the issuance and sale
from time to time by the Company, through October 31, 1995, of up to
l,000,000 shares of its authorized but unissued common stock, no par
value (the "Additional Common Stock"), pursuant to a Customer Stock
Purchase Plan (the "Plan").
On December 12, 1990, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued
an Order, granting and permitting the Application-Declaration to become
effective. In accordance with that Order, the terms and conditions pre-
scribed in Rule 24, promulgated under the Act, are to be complied with.
The Company hereby certifies that 17,571 shares of the Additional
Common Stock were issued and sold under the Plan on February 15, 1994,
in accordance with the terms and conditions and for the purposes repre-
sented by the Application-Declaration, and in accordance with the afore-
said Order of the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect thereto.
The "past tense" opinion of counsel, required by the Act to be
filed as Exhibit F(2) to Form U-1, will be filed at the conclusion of
the issuance and sale of the Additional Common Stock.
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Act, the Company has duly
caused this certificate to be signed on its behalf in the City of New
York and State of New York on the 24th day of February l994.
NATIONAL FUEL GAS COMPANY
By:
Thomas E. Burns
Assistant Vice President
