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SIERRA TRUST FUNDS
STATEMENT OF CERTIFICATION
PURSUANT TO RULE 497(j)
Sierra Trust Funds (the "Trust") hereby certifies that the forms of
prospectuses and statement of additional information that would have been filed
under Paragraph (c) of Rule 497 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
would not have differed from those contained in Post-Effective Amendment No. 24
to the Trust's Registration Statement on Form N-1A (File Nos. 033-27489 and
811-05775) which was filed electronically on October 30, 1996 (Accession No.
0000950150-96-001215).
Sierra Trust Funds
/S/ KEITH B. PIPES
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Date: November 5, 1996 By: Keith B. Pipes
Title: Executive Vice President,
Treasurer and Secretary
