EXHIBIT 99.2 STATEMENT UNDER OATH OF PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL OFFICER REGARDING FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING TO EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS I, Richard J. Harshman, Senior Vice President-Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Allegheny Technologies Incorporated, state and attest that: (1) To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered reports of Allegheny Technologies Incorporated and, except as corrected or supplemented in a subsequent covered report: - no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed); and - no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed). (2) I have reviewed the contents of this statement with Allegheny Technologies Incorporated's Audit Committee. (3) In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or before the date of this statement, is a "covered report": - Annual Report on Form 10-K of Allegheny Technologies Incorporated filed with the Commission for the year ended December 31, 2001; - all quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, all current reports on Form 8-K and all definitive proxy materials of Allegheny Technologies Incorporated filed with the Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and - any amendments to any of the foregoing. Date: August 13, 2002 /s/ Richard J. Harshman -------------------------------------- Richard J. Harshman Senior Vice President-Finance and Chief Financial Officer Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th day of August, 2002 /s/ Mary Beth Luksik - ---------------------------------- Notary Public My Commission Expires: September 30, 2002