**EXHIBIT 31**

 

### **CERTIFICATION**

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I, Mike Ulrich, certify that:

 

1.               I have reviewed this quarterly report onForm 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2006 of Eastern American Natural GasTrust, for which, effective as of January 1, 2005, JPMorganChase Bank, N.A. acts as Trustee;

 

2.               Based on my knowledge, this quarterlyreport does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit tostate a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of thecircumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading withrespect to the period covered by this quarterly report;

 

3.               Based on my knowledge, the financialstatements, and other financial information included in this quarterly report,fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, distributableincome and changes in trust corpus of the registrant as of, and for, theperiods presented in this quarterly report;

 

4.               I am responsible for establishing andmaintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange ActRules 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 suchcontrols and procedures to be established and maintained, for the registrantand have:

 

a)              designed such disclosure controls andprocedures, or caused such controls and procedures to be designed under mysupervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant,including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to me by other withinthose entities, particularly during the period in which this quarterly reportis being prepared;

 

b)             designed such internal control overfinancial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reportingto be designed under my supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regardingthe reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financialstatements for external purposes; and

 

c)              evaluated the effectiveness of theregistrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this quarterlyreport my conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls andprocedures, as of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report basedon such evaluation; and

 

d)             disclosed in this report any change in theregistrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during theregistrant’s quarter end March 31, 

 

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2006 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely tomaterially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting;and

 

5.               I have disclosed, based on my mostrecent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to theregistrant’s auditors:

 

a)              all significant deficiencies and materialweaknesses in the design or operation of internal controls over financial reportingwhich are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability torecord, process, summarize and report financial information; and

 

b)             any fraud,whether or not material, that involves any persons who have a significant rolein the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

6. I have indicated in this quarterly report whether or not there weresignificant changes in internal controls or in other factors that couldsignificantly affect internal controls subsequent to the date of our mostrecent evaluation, including any corrective actions with regard to significantdeficiencies and material weaknesses.

 

In giving the foregoing certifications in paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 above,I have relied to the extent I consider reasonable on information provided to meby Eastern American Energy Corporation and Ryder Scott Company, IndependentPetroleum Engineers.

 
|   | By:    | /s/ Mike Ulrich             |   |
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|   |   | Vice President              |
|   |   | JPMorgan Chase  Bank, N.A., |

Trustee

 

Date:  May 4, 2006

 

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