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<option value="3">2006 Financial Highlights</option>
<option value="4">Financial Performance</option>
<option value="5">Letter From the Chairman</option>
<option value="7">Feature Section</option>
<option value="26">Service Territories & Markets Served</option>
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<option value="30">Presenting Our 2006 Form 10-K</option>
<option value="31">Form 10-K</option>
<option value="33">Shareowner Information</option>
<option value="36">Table of Contents</option>
<option value="39">Business</option>
<option value="39">Part I</option>
<option value="40"> Business Segments</option>
<option value="40"> Natural Gas Distribution</option>
<option value="40"> General</option>
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<option value="48"> Employee Relations</option>
<option value="49"> Risk Factors</option>
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<option value="56"> Properties</option>
<option value="57"> Legal Proceedings.</option>
<option value="59"> Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders</option>
<option value="60"> Directors and Executive Officers of the Registrant</option>
<option value="63"> Market for the Registrant’s Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters</option>
<option value="63">Part II</option>
<option value="64"> Selected Financial Data</option>
<option value="67"> Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results</option>
<option value="91"> Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk</option>
<option value="94"> Financial Statements and Supplementary Data</option>
<option value="94"> Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting</option>
<option value="97"> Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm</option>
<option value="138"> Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure</option>
<option value="138"> Controls and Procedures</option>
<option value="139"> Other Information</option>
<option value="140">Part III</option>
<option value="140"> Directors and Executive Officers of the Registrant</option>
<option value="140"> Executive Compensation</option>
<option value="140"> Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management</option>
<option value="140"> Certain Relationships and Related Transactions</option>
<option value="140"> Principal Accountant Fees and Services</option>
<option value="140">Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules and Reports on Form 8-K</option>
<option value="141">Index to Financial Statement Schedules</option>
<option value="143">Signatures</option>
<option value="144">Exhibit Index</option>
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