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Exhibit 24(A)
TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION CORPORATION
POWER OF ATTORNEY
A maximum of $500,000,000
aggregate public offering price of Notes
(Securities)
The undersigned TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION CORPORATION, a Delaware
corporation, and certain of its officers and/or directors, do each hereby
constitute and appoint Dorothy M. Ables, Alan N. Harris, Myron L. Caldwell and
Robert T. Lucas III, and each of them, to act as attorneys-in-fact for and in
the respective names, places and stead of the undersigned, to execute, seal,
sign, and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission a Registration
Statement of said Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation on Form S-3 and any and
all amendments thereto for the purpose of registering under the Securities Act
of 1933 the Securities, hereby granting to said attorneys-in-fact, and each of
them, full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing
whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in and about the premises,
as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned, or any of them, might
or could do if personally present, hereby ratifying and approving the acts of
said attorneys-in-fact.
Executed the 10th day of October, 2000.
TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION
CORPORATION
By /s/ Robert B. Evans
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Chairman, President
and Chief Executive Officer
(Corporate Seal)
ATTEST:
/s/ Alan N. Harris
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Assistant Secretary
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/s/ Robert B. Evans Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
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Robert B. Evans
/s/ Dorothy M. Ables Senior Vice President and Chief Financial
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Dorothy M. Ables Director
/s/ Alan N. Harris Vice President, Treasurer and Controller
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Alan N. Harris
/s/ Theopolis Holeman (Director)
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Theopolis Holeman
