**Exhibit 31.1**
**CERTIFICATION REQUIRED BY**
**RULE 13a-14(a) OR RULE 15d-14(a)**
     I, Ron E. Hooper, certify that:
 1.  I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Williams Coal Seam GasRoyalty Trust, for which Bank of America, N.A., acts as Trustee;  2.  Based on my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any untruestatement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make thestatements 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 financialinformation included in this quarterly report, fairly present in all material respectsthe financial condition, distributable income and changes in trust corpus of theregistrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this quarterly report.  4.  I am responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls andprocedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internalcontrol over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and15d-15(f)), or for causing such controls and procedures to be established andmaintained, for the registrant and I have:
 a)  designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or causedsuch disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under my supervision, toensure that material information relating to the registrant, including itsconsolidated subsidiaries, is made known to me by others within thoseentities, particularly during the period in which this quarterly report isbeing prepared;  b)  designed such internal control over financial reporting, orcaused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under mysupervision, to provided reasonable assurance regarding the reliability offinancial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for externalpurposes;  c)  evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosurecontrols and procedures and presented in this quarterly report my conclusionsabout the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of theend of the period covered by this quarterly report based on such evaluation;  d)  disclosed in this quarterly report any change in theregistrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during theregistrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarterin the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonablylikely to
 

 

    materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financialreporting; and
 5.  I have disclosed, based on my most recent evaluation of internal control overfinancial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors:
 a)  all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in thedesign or operation of internal control over financial reporting which arereasonably 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 orother employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internalcontrol over financial reporting; and
In giving the certifications in paragraphs 4 and 5 above, I have relied to the extent Iconsider reasonable on information provided to me by Williams Production Company.       Date: May 10, 2005 By: /s/ RON E. HOOPER     Ron E. Hooper     *Senior Vice President and Administrator*     Bank of America, N.A.