This is in respect to the status of Greater Dickson Gas Authority's Year 2000 compliance efforts.  We are in the course of addressing the critical systems and devices for the transition to the Year 2000.  We are making every effort, and we feel that we can continue to maintain the service and delivery commitments to our customers during this transition time and beyond the Year 2000.

Our plans call for us to follow the standard approach of

• Producing an inventory of equipment and software that is date sensitive in respect to computer chip function.

• Evaluating the Y2K status of each item.

• Planning any necessary remedial action

• Carrying out the remedial planned actions

• Contingency plan

At this time we are in the process of evaluating and inventorying our automated/computer based systems; contacting our vendors and suppliers to ensure their products and/or services will function properly from January 01, 2000 onward; and testing our computer hardware/software to see that all is Year 2000 compliant. 

We do not foresee or predict any major complications due to the computer chips issue internally.  We have over the last year identified/replaced a significant number of issues that have either been remedial or replaced/or in the process of being replaced at this time.  Those acknowledged problems observed; we feel would not pose any major threats to the continued product supply because product transportation on our system is not relied primarily upon any date sensitive chips.  Of those areas that do rely on date sensitive chips, manual override systems are in place to compensate for those conditions.

If any further information is required, please contact Steve Gray, Y2K Project Coordinator at (615) 441-2830, or email at sgray@gdga.com