News from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission

Matt Skinner, Public Information Officer

Phone: (405) 521-4180, FAX: (405) 522-1623, www.occ.state.ok.us

July 11, 2001

MEDIA ADVISORY

Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners voted unanimously today to lift the protective order on an exhibit filed as part of the review of the gas costs incurred by Oklahoma Natural Gas and its customers last winter. The vote came after two media outlets (The Oklahoma Constitution Newspaper and KWTV-Channel 9) filed separate Open Records Act requests asking for the exhibit. ONEOK, the parent company of ONG, today dropped its initial objection to release of the exhibit, which consists of a ONEOK Board of Directors resolution approved in April of last year.

On another matter, the Commissioners took under advisement the appeal of two ONEOK subsidiaries to an OCC’s Administrative Law Judge’s recommendation that they be found in contempt and fined for refusing to turn over documents as ordered by the Commission. The documents in question deal with gas sales made last winter. Commissoners agreed to give all sides in the matter time to make supplemental filings in the case. The deadline for all such filings is 7/23/01, and a decision in the matter is expected shortly thereafter.

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