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                                                                    EXHIBIT 31.1

                                  CERTIFICATION

I, Ron E. Hooper, certify that:

     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 quarterly 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 quarterly
report;

     3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
information included in this quarterly 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 quarterly
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)), 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 quarterly report is being prepared;

     b)   evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls
          and procedures and presented in this quarterly report my conclusions
          about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as
          of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report based on
          such evaluation;

     c)   disclosed in this quarterly 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 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; and

In giving the certifications in paragraphs 4 and 5 above, I have relied to the
extent I consider reasonable on information provided to me by Williams
Production Company.



Date: August 14, 2003.


                             By: /s/ Ron E. Hooper
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                                 Ron E. Hooper
                                 Senior Vice President and Administrator
                                 Bank of America, N.A.