Centerpoint Energy Gas Transmission Company

Sixth Revised Volume No. 1

Effective Date: 02/28/2003, Docket: RP03-239-000, Status: Effective

Original Sheet No. 519 Original Sheet No. 519 : Effective

TERMS OF PROTECTIVE AGREEMENT

(Continued)

made or relied upon the notes, and each reviewing party shall submit to CEGT

an affidavit stating that any and all handwritten notes which incorporate data

obtained from such protected materials have been destroyed.

3. Any protected material secured pursuant to this Protective

Agreement shall be treated as confidential by the reviewing party and by the

reviewing representative in accordance with the certificate executed pursuant

to Paragraph 5. Protected materials shall not be used or disclosed except as

necessary for the conduct of the proceedings contemplated by the Stipulation

and Agreement in Docket No. RP91-49-000; nor will they be made known in any

manner to any person except a person who is engaged in the conduct of such

proceedings and who has a need to know the information in order to participate

in such proceedings and who otherwise qualifies under the terms of

Paragraphs 4 and 5. In addition, each set of such materials shall be preceded

by a cover sheet, firmly attached, that shall not be removed and that shall

bear the following legend:

Warning

This document and the matter contained in it are confidential and their use is

restricted in accordance with a Protective Agreement arising from the

Stipulation and Agreement in Docket No. RP91-49-000, before the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission. The viewing, dissemination, recording, or copying of

this document, except as authorized by the Protective Agreement, is a

violation of the Protective Agreement. It is a violation of that Agreement to

separate this page from the document to which it is affixed.

4. Only parties from whom CEGT has proposed to recover Contract

Settlement Costs may qualify as a reviewing party under this Protective

Agreement, except that a state regulatory agency having jurisdiction over any

party to this case that qualifies as a reviewing party may also qualify as a

reviewing party, and the Commission's Staff shall be considered a reviewing

party. Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph and Paragraph 5, a

reviewing party shall be permitted access to protected materials solely for

use in the proceedings described above in Paragraph 3 through its reviewing

representatives, comprised of its counsel of record, associated attorneys, and

other persons employed or retained by the reviewing party for the purpose of

participating in such