Writer's Direct Line (416) 440-7605

XXXXX, 2000

By Priority Post

Ms. Karen Hockin P. Eng.

Manager, Regulatory Applications

Union Gas Limited

50 Keil Drive North, Box 2001

Chatham, Ontario

N7M 5M1

LETTER OF DIRECTION

Dear Mr. Hockin:

Re:	Union Gas Limited -Trafalgar Facilities Expansion Program

Notice A and B

Board File No. RP-2000-0110

The Board has now issued its Notices of Application with respect to the above case, and these are enclosed.

You are directed:

1.	To forthwith conduct a search of title of all property owners and encumbrances with lands or interest in the lands affected by the proposed designation of the title pool.

2.	To immediately serve a copy of Notice "A", together with a copy of the relevant Application, either personally, by courier or by registered mail, upon the Clerks of the affected municipalities, upon all property owners and encumbrances and contiguous landowners with lands or interest in lands as shown by the affidavit of search of title referred to in #1 above, and upon The Consumers' Gas Company Ltd., and Natural Resources Gas Limited.

3.	To immediately have Notice "B" published, headed with the Ontario Government logo and the words "Ontario Energy Board", in one issue of a daily newspaper or newspaper having the highest circulation, according to the best information available, in all of the above municipalities as well as one issue of a weekly newspaper having the highest circulation. (Union to attach map)

NOTE A: Please make it clear to each newspaper that the invoice re publication is to be sent to Union Gas Limited, not to the Board.

4.	To file with the Board affidavit evidence proving the above service and publication immediately upon completion, with the relevant Notices, Application, and original Post Office Registration Receipts (where applicable) attached as appendices.

NOTE B: The affidavits of service referred to above must confirm that the Municipal Clerks so served are the Clerks of all the affected municipalities, that the Native Bands and Native Reservations so served are all of the Bands and Reservations affected, that the utilities and railway companies so served are all utilities and railway companies whose lines would be crossed by the proposed pipeline, and that the property owners and encumbrances so served are all the owners and encumbrances affected by the proposed construction.

As well, the affidavits of publication referred to above must confirm that the newspapers in which the Notice was published are newspapers having the highest circulation, according to the best information available, in all the affected municipalities. It is not necessary for the affidavits of publication to have newspapers tearsheets attached.

5.	To immediately provide a copy of any or all the above Applications to any person upon request.

6.	To immediately supply Union Gas Limited's prefiled evidence to any person requesting it in the letter of intervention.

Yours truly,

Peter H. O'Dell

Assistant Board Secretary

Encl.

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