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       CONSENT OF UNITED ENERGY DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANTS, INC.
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Exhibit 24(b)

        CONSENT OF UNITED ENERGY DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANTS, INC.
     INDEPENDENT PETROLEUM ENGINEERING & GEOLOGICAL CONSULTING FIRM

   
UEDC, as an independent petroleum engineering and geological consulting 
firm, hereby consents to the use of it's Geologic Evaluation, dated July 
31, 1996, in the Pre-Effective Amendments, for Atlas-Energy for the Nineties-
Public #5, Ltd., and to all references to UEDC as having prepared such 
report and as an expert concerning such report.
    

UEDC, Inc.


/s/ Isaias Ortiz 
Isaias Ortiz   September 20, 1996
President 

  Ambridge, PA