Exhibit 31

Certification Pursuant to

Section 302 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002

I, David A. Vanaskey, in my
capacity as Vice President of Wilmington Trust Company, in its capacity as trust administrator and trustee of Motors Liquidation Company GUC Trust (the Trust), certify that:



| | 1. | I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of the Trust;
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| | 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;
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| | 3. | Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the net assets and
changes in net assets under the liquidation basis of accounting of the Trust as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
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| | 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)) for the Trust and have:
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| | 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 Trust, 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;
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| | b. | [Paragraph omitted pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 13d-14(a)];
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| | c. | Evaluated the effectiveness of the Trust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; and
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| | d. | [Paragraph omitted pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 13d-14(a)]; and
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| | 5. | I have disclosed, based on my most recent evaluation, to the Trusts auditors:
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| | 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 Trusts ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
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| | b. | Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Trusts internal control over financial
reporting.
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Date: August 14, 2012



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|By:    |  | /s/ David A. Vanaskey                     
|Name:  |  | David A. Vanaskey                         
|Title: |  | Vice President of Wilmington Trust Company



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