Exhibit 31.1
 CERTIFICATION REQUIRED BY
RULE 13a-14(a) OR RULE 15d-14(a)
  1.
    
    I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Williams Coal Seam Gas
Royalty Trust, for which Bank of America, N.A., acts as Trustee;
 2.
    
    Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made,
in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading
with respect to the period covered by this report;
 3.
    
    Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the
financial condition, distributable income and changes in trust corpus of the registrant
as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
 4.
    
    I am responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and
procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal
control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and
15d-15(f)), or for causing such controls and procedures to be established and
maintained, for the registrant and I have:
 a)
    
    designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused
such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under my supervision, to
ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its
consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to me by others within those
entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being
prepared;
 b)
    
    designed such internal control over financial reporting, or
caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under my
supervision, to provided reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of
financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external
purposes;
 c)
    
    evaluated the effectiveness of the registrants disclosure
controls and procedures and presented in this report my conclusions about the
effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the
period covered by this report based on such evaluation;
 d)
    
    disclosed in this report any change in the registrants
internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrants
most recent fiscal quarter (the registrants fourth fiscal quarter in the case
of an annual




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report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to
materially affect, the registrants internal control over financial reporting;
and
 5.
    
    I have disclosed, based on my most recent evaluation of internal control over
financial reporting, to the registrants auditors:
 a)
    
    all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the
design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are
reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrants ability to record,
process, summarize and report financial information; and
 b)
    
    any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or
other employees who have a significant role in the registrants internal
control over financial reporting.
  Date: August 10, 2009
    By:
    /s/ RON E. HOOPERRon E. HooperSenior Vice President and Administrator

Bank of America, N.A.