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<LEGEND>
The following schedule contains summarized financial information extracted
from the Questasr Pipeline Consolidated Statements of Income and Balance Sheet
for the period ended March 31, 2000, and is qualified in its entirety by
reference to such unaudited financial statements.
</LEGEND>
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