**EXHIBIT31**

 

I, Mike Ulrich, certifythat:

 

1.Ihave reviewed the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year endedDecember 31, 2004, as amended by this Annual Report on Form 10-K/A, ofEastern American Natural Gas Trust, for which, effective as of January 1, 2005,JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., acts as Trustee;

 

2.Basedon my knowledge, this annual report does not contain any untrue statement of amaterial fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statementsmade, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, notmisleading with respect to the period covered by this annual report;

 

3.Basedon my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial informationincluded in this annual report, fairly present in all material respects thefinancial condition, distributable income and changes in trust corpus of theregistrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this annual report;

 

4.Iam responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls andprocedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) andinternal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)), or for causing such controls and procedures to beestablished and maintained, for the registrant and have:

 

a)designedsuch disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such controls and proceduresto be designed under my supervision, to ensure that material informationrelating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is madeknown to me by other within those entities, particularly during the period inwhich this annual report is being prepared;

 

b)designedsuch internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal controlover financial reporting to be designed under my supervision, to providereasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and thepreparation of financial statements for external purposes; and

 

c)evaluatedthe effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures andpresented in this annual report my conclusions about the effectiveness of thedisclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by thisannual report based on such evaluation; and

 

d)disclosedin this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financialreporting that occurred during the registrant’s fourth quarter that hasmaterially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, theregistrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

 

5.Ihave disclosed, based on my most recent evaluation of internal control overfinancial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors:

 

a)allsignificant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation ofinternal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely toadversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize andreport financial information; and

 

b)anyfraud, whether or not material, that involves any persons who have asignificant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

In giving the foregoingcertifications in paragraphs 4 and 5 above, I have relied to the extent Iconsider reasonable on information provided to me by Eastern American EnergyCorporation and Ryder Scott Company, Independent Petroleum Engineers, and oninformation and a certificate from The Bank of New York, which served asTrustee through December 31, 2004.

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

 

 

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