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                                                                  EXHIBIT 24.2

                    [NORTHWEST PIPELINE CORPORATION LOGO]



                 I, the undersigned, DAVID M. HIGBEE, Secretary of NORTHWEST
PIPELINE CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (hereinafter called the
"Corporation"), do hereby certify that at a meeting of the Board of Directors
of the Corporation, duly convened and held on August 25, 1995, at which a
quorum of said Board was present and acting throughout, the following
resolutions were duly adopted:

                                  RESOLVED that the officers of the Corporation
                 be, and they hereby are, authorized to execute and file with
                 the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities
                 Act of 1933, as amended, a shelf Registration Statement on
                 Form S-3, and all amendments and supplements thereto and all
                 required exhibits and documents in connection therewith, and
                 the Prospectus contained therein, and all amendments or
                 supplements thereto (the "Registration Statement"), with
                 respect to Debt Securities with an initial offering price not
                 to exceed one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000), and to
                 do, or cause to be done, all such other acts and things as, in
                 their opinion or in the opinion of any of them, may be
                 necessary or desirable and proper in order to effect such
                 filing or in order that such Registration Statement and any
                 such amendment or amendments may become effective and may
                 remain in effect as long as shall be required.

                                  RESOLVED that the form of power of attorney
                 submitted to this meeting for use in connection with the
                 execution and filing, for and on behalf of the Corporation, of
                 the Registration Statement and any such amendments thereto
                 referred to in the preceding resolution, is hereby approved,
                 and the Chairman of the Board, the President or any Vice
                 President of the Corporation is hereby authorized to execute
                 said power of attorney in the form so presented for and on
                 behalf of the Corporation.

                 I further certify that the foregoing resolutions have not been
modified, revoked or rescinded and are in full force and effect.

                 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of NORTHWEST PIPELINE CORPORATION this 8th day of September, 1995.



                                         /s/ David M. Higbee     
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                                             David M. Higbee
                                                Secretary


(CORPORATE SEAL)