ALLEGHENY TECHNOLOGIES INCORPORATED 11-K
 

 
 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 11-K

ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE
ACT OF 1934

     
þ   ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 [NO FEE REQUIRED]

FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2006

     
o   TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 [NO FEE REQUIRED]

FOR THE TRANSITION PERIOD FROM                          TO                         

COMMISSION FILE NUMBER 1-12001

SAVINGS AND SECURITY PLAN OF THE LOCKPORT AND
WATERBURY FACILITIES

 
(Title of Plan)

ALLEGHENY TECHNOLOGIES INCORPORATED

(Name of Issuer of securities held pursuant to the Plan)

1000 Six PPG Place, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222-5479
(Address of Plan and principal executive offices of Issuer)

 
 

 


 

Audited Financial Statements and Supplemental Schedule
Savings and Security Plan of the Lockport and Waterbury Facilities
Years Ended December 31, 2006 and 2005
With Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 


 

Savings and Security Plan of the
Lockport and Waterbury Facilities
Audited Financial Statements
and Supplemental Schedule
Years Ended December 31, 2006 and 2005
Contents
         
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Supplemental Schedule
       
 
       
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Allegheny Technologies Incorporated
We have audited the accompanying statements of net assets available for benefits of the Savings and Security Plan of the Lockport and Waterbury Facilities as of December 31, 2006 and 2005, and the related statements of changes in net assets available for benefits for the years then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Plan’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. We were not engaged to perform an audit of the Plan’s internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Plan’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the net assets available for benefits of the Plan at December 31, 2006 and 2005, and the changes in its net assets available for benefits for the years then ended, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
Our audits were performed for the purpose of forming an opinion on the financial statements taken as a whole. The accompanying supplemental schedule of assets (held at end of year) as of December 31, 2006, is presented for purposes of additional analysis and is not a required part of the financial statements but is supplementary information required by the Department of Labor’s Rules and Regulations for Reporting and Disclosure under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. This supplemental schedule is the responsibility of the Plan’s management. The supplemental schedule has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in our audits of the financial statements and, in our opinion, is fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the financial statements taken as a whole.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
June 22, 2007
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Savings and Security Plan of the
Lockport and Waterbury Facilities
Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits
                 
    December 31
    2006   2005
     
Investments at fair value:
               
Interest in Allegheny Master Trust
  $ 4,770,000     $ 5,088,073  
Interest in registered investment companies
    2,236,844       1,991,791  
Corporate common stocks
    1,259,908       667,805  
Participant loans
    413,686       309,942  
Interest in common collective trusts
    319,590       518  
     
Total investments at fair value
    9,000,028       8,058,129  
 
               
Employer contribution receivable
          1,387  
Employee contributions receivable
          4,754  
Other receivables, net
    531       67  
Other liabilities
    (316,175 )      
     
Net assets available for benefits at fair value
    8,684,384       8,064,337  
Adjustment from fair value to contract value for fully benefit responsive investment contracts
    60,199       56,136  
     
Net assets available for benefits
  $ 8,744,583     $ 8,120,473  
     
See accompanying notes.

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Savings and Security Plan of the
Lockport and Waterbury Facilities
Statements of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits
                 
    Years Ended December 31
    2006   2005
     
Contributions:
               
Employer
  $ 76,897     $ 77,562  
Employee
    249,993       246,713  
     
Total contributions
    326,890       324,275  
 
               
Investment income:
               
Net realized/unrealized gain on corporate common stocks
    746,031       275,838  
Net gain from interest in Allegheny Master Trust
    243,159       246,052  
Net gain from interest in registered investment companies
    221,394       127,465  
Interest income
    24,016       15,285  
Dividend income
    5,167       5,643  
Net gain from interest in common collective trusts
    1,339       478  
     
Total investment income
    1,241,106       670,761  
     
 
    1,567,996       995,036  
 
               
Distributions to participants
    (943,846 )     (369,717 )
Fees
    (40 )     (1 )
     
 
    (943,886 )     (369,718 )
 
               
Net increase in net assets available for benefits
    624,110       625,318  
Net assets available for benefits at beginning of year
    8,120,473       7,495,155  
     
Net assets available for benefits at end of year
  $ 8,744,583     $ 8,120,473  
     
See accompanying notes.

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Savings and Security Plan of the
Lockport and Waterbury Facilities
Notes to Financial Statements
December 31, 2006
1. Significant Accounting Policies
Use of Estimates and Basis of Accounting
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
The financial statements are prepared under the accrual basis of accounting.
New Accounting Pronouncement
In December 2005, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued FASB Staff Position AAG INV-1 and SOP 94-4-1, Reporting of Fully Benefit-Responsive Investment Contracts Held by Certain Investment Companies Subject to the AICPA Investment Company Guide and Defined-Contribution Health and Welfare and Pension Plans (the FSP). The FSP defines the circumstances in which an investment contract is considered fully benefit responsive and provides certain reporting and disclosure requirements for fully benefit responsive investment contracts in defined contribution health and welfare and pension plans. The financial statement presentation and disclosure provisions of the FSP are effective for financial statements issued for annual periods ending after December 15, 2006 and are required to be applied retroactively to all prior periods presented for comparative purposes. The Plan has adopted the provisions of the FSP at December 31, 2006.
As required by the FSP, investments in the accompanying Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits include fully benefit responsive investment contracts recognized at fair value. AICPA Statement of Position 94-4-1, Reporting of Investment Contracts Held by Health and Welfare Benefit Plans and Defined Contribution Pension Plans, as amended, requires fully benefit responsive investment contracts to be reported at fair value in the Plan’s Statement of Net Assets Available for Benefits with a corresponding adjustment to reflect these investments at contract value. The requirements of the FSP have been applied retroactively to the Statement of Net Assets Available for Benefits as of December 31, 2005 presented for comparative purposes. Adoption of the FSP had no effect on the Statement of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits or the total of net assets available for benefits for any period presented.
Investment Valuation and Income recognition
The Plan’s investments are stated at fair value except for its benefit-responsive investment contracts, which are valued at contract value (see Note 3). Quoted market prices are used to value investments. Share of mutual funds are valued at the net asset value of shares held by the Plan at year end. Participant loans are valued at their outstanding balances, which approximate fair value.

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Savings and Security Plan of the
Lockport and Waterbury Facilities
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
1. Significant Accounting Policies (continued)
Investments in bank and insurance company guaranteed investment contracts (“GICs”) and in synthetic investment contracts (“SICs”) are stated at contract value which is equal to principal balance plus accrued interest, because they are fully benefit-responsive. As provided in the FSP, an investment contract is generally permitted to be valued at contract value, rather than fair value, to the extent it is fully benefit-responsive. Fair value of the GICs was estimated by discounting the weighted average cash flows at the then-current interest crediting rate for a comparable maturity investment contract. Fair value of the SICs was estimated based on the fair value of each contract’s supporting assets at December 31, 2006 and 2005. Participants may ordinarily direct the withdrawal or transfer of all or a portion of their investment at contract value. There are no reserves against contract value for credit risk of the contract issuer or otherwise.
Although it is management’s intention to hold the investment contracts in the Standish Mellon Fixed Income Fund until maturity, certain investment contracts provide for adjustments to contract value for withdrawals made prior to maturity.
2. Description of the Plan
The Savings and Security Plan of the Lockport and Waterbury Facilities (the Plan) is a defined contribution plan and is subject to the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
The purpose of the Plan is to provide a savings and retirement plan to eligible employees of the Lockport and Waterbury Facilities of affiliates of Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (ATI, the Plan Sponsor) by allowing a portion of their salary to be set aside each month through payroll deductions. The Plan allows employees to contribute a portion of eligible wages each pay period through payroll deductions subject to Internal Revenue Code limitations. The Company contributes $0.50 for each hour worked by the participant. The Plan allows participants to direct their contributions, and contributions made on their behalf, to any of the investment alternatives.
Unless otherwise specified by the participant, employer contributions are made to the Standish Mellon Fixed Income Fund.
Separate accounts are maintained by the Plan Sponsor for each participating employee. Trustee fees and asset management fees charged by the Plan’s trustee, Mellon Bank, N.A., for the administration of all funds are charged against net assets available for benefits of the respective

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Savings and Security Plan of the
Lockport and Waterbury Facilities
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
2. Description of the Plan (continued)
fund. Certain other expenses of administering the Plan are paid by the Plan Sponsor.
Participants may make “in-service” and hardship withdrawals as outlined in the plan document. Participants are fully vested in their entire participant account balance.
Active employees can borrow up to 50% of their vested account balances. The loan amounts are further limited to a minimum of $500 and a maximum of $50,000, and an employee can obtain no more than three loans at one time. Interest rates are determined based on commercially accepted criteria, and payment schedules vary based on the type of the loan. General purpose loans are repaid over 6 to 60 months, and primary residence loans are repaid over periods up to 180 months. Payments are made by payroll deductions.
Further information about the Plan, including eligibility, vesting, contributions, and withdrawals, is contained in the plan documents, summary plan description, and related contracts. These documents are available from the Plan Sponsor.
3. Investments
The following presents investments that represent 5% or more of the Plan’s net assets:
                 
    December 31
    2006   2005
     
Standish Mellon Fixed Income Fund (contract value)
  $ 4,289,637     $ 4,759,428  
Allegheny Technologies Incorporated common stock
    1,259,908       667,805  
Dreyfus Emerging Leaders Fund
    493,305       618,338  
Certain of the Plan’s investments are in the Allegheny Master Trust, which has three separately managed institutional investment accounts; the T. Rowe Price Structured Research Common Trust Fund (formerly the ATI Disciplined Stock Fund), the Alliance Capital Growth Pool, and the Standish Mellon Fixed Income Fund, which was valued on a unitized basis (collectively, the “Allegheny Master Trust”). In May, 2005, Dreyfus was terminated as the manager of the ATI Disciplined Stock Fund and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (“T. Rowe Price”) was appointed. At that time all holdings in the institutional investment account managed by Dreyfus were moved to the institutional investment account managed by T. Rowe Price. T. Rowe Price administered the transition of the holdings by transferring securities in kind to the T. Rowe Price Structured Research Common Trust Fund. Trust investments formerly in the ATI Disciplined Stock Fund are reported as T. Rowe Price Structured Research Common Trust Fund investments for all periods presented.

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Savings and Security Plan of the
Lockport and Waterbury Facilities
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
3. Investments (continued)
The Allegheny Master Trust was established for the investment of assets of the Plan, and several other ATI sponsored retirement plans. Each participating retirement plan has an undivided interest in the Allegheny Master Trust. At December 31, 2006 and 2005, the Plan’s interest in the net assets of the Alliance Capital Growth Pool, the Standish Mellon Fixed Income Fund, and the T. Rowe Price Structured Research Common Trust Fund was as follows:
                 
    2006   2005
     
Standish Mellon Fixed Income Fund
    1.81 %     2.24 %
T. Rowe Price Structured Research Common Trust Fund
    0.48       0.45  
Alliance Capital Growth Pool
    0.56       0.22  
Investment income and expenses are allocated to the Plan based upon its pro rata share in the net assets of the Allegheny Master Trust.

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Savings and Security Plan of the
Lockport and Waterbury Facilities
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
3. Investments (continued)
The composition of the net assets of the Standish Mellon Fixed Income Fund at December 31, 2006 and 2005 was as follows:
                 
    2006   2005
     
Guaranteed investment contracts:
               
GE Life and Annuity
  $     $ 5,453,333  
Hartford Life Insurance Company
          3,978,336  
John Hancock Life Insurance Company
          3,022,363  
Monumental Life Insurance Company
          1,020,997  
New York Life Insurance Company
    895,330       4,703,449  
Ohio National Life
          2,005,322  
Principal Life
    1,368,618       1,307,756  
Pruco Pace Credit Enhanced
          3,716,096  
Security Life of Denver
          1,517,224  
United of Omaha
          1,422,965  
     
 
    2,263,948       28,147,841  
 
               
Synthetic guaranteed investment contracts:
               
Bank of America
    28,662,260       33,323,362  
IXIS Financial Products, Inc.
    4,030,074        
MDA Monumental BGI Wrap
          43,967,438  
Monumental Life
    60,286,128        
Rabobank
    53,011,207       41,435,067  
State Street Bank
    21,292,911       15,290,983  
Union Bank of Switzerland
    39,206,620       35,642,109  
     
 
    206,489,200       169,658,959  
 
               
Interest in common collective trusts
    24,622,702       12,443,974  
     
Total net assets at fair value
    233,375,850       210,250,774  
Wrap contracts at fair value
    (49,959 )     (22,731 )
Adjustment from fair value to contract value for fully benefit responsive investment contracts
    3,381,661       2,543,062  
     
Total net assets
  $ 236,707,552     $ 212,771,105  
     
The Standish Mellon Fixed Income Fund (the Fund) invests in guaranteed investment contracts (GICs) and actively managed structured or synthetic investment contracts (SICs). The GICs are promises by a bank or insurance company to repay principal plus a fixed rate of return through contract maturity. SICs differ from GICs in that there are specific assets supporting the SICs, and these assets are owned by the Allegheny Master Trust. The bank or insurance company issues a wrapper contract that allows participant-directed transactions to be made at contract value. The assets supporting the SICs are comprised of government agency bonds, corporate bonds, asset-backed securities (ABOs), and collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs).

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Savings and Security Plan of the
Lockport and Waterbury Facilities
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
3. Investments (continued)
Interest crediting rates on the GICs in the Fund are determined at the time of purchase. Interest crediting rates on the SICs are either: (1) set at the time of purchase for a fixed term and crediting rate, (2) set at the time of purchase for a fixed term and variable crediting rate, or (3) set at the time of purchase and reset monthly within a “constant duration.” A constant duration contract may specify a duration of 2.5 years and the crediting rate is adjusted monthly based upon quarterly rebalancing of eligible 2.5 year duration investment instruments at the time of each resetting; in effect the contract never matures. At December 31, 2006 and 2005, the interest crediting rates for GICs and Fixed Maturity SICs ranged from 4.30% to 5.56% and 4.15% to 7.08%, respectively.
Average yields for all fully-benefit responsive investment contracts for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005 were as follows:
                 
    Year ended December 31
    2006   2005
     
Average yields:
               
Based on actual earnings
    4.75 %     4.56 %
Based on interest rate credited to participants
    4.64 %     4.44 %
The composition of net assets of the Alliance Capital Growth Pool at December 31, 2006 and 2005 was as follows:
                 
    2006   2005
     
Investment in pooled separate accounts:
               
Alliance Equity Fund S.A. #4
  $ 34,335,972     $ 39,779,750  
Operating payables
    (10,572 )     (11,734 )
     
Total net assets
  $ 34,325,400     $ 39,768,016  
     

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Savings and Security Plan of the
Lockport and Waterbury Facilities
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
3. Investments (continued)
The composition of net assets of the T. Rowe Price Structured Research Common Trust Fund at December 31, 2006 and 2005 was as follows:
                 
    2006   2005
     
Interest in common collective trusts
  $ 72,210,981     $ 66,391,950  
Payables
    (34,228 )     (126,421 )
     
Total net assets
  $ 72,176,753     $ 66,265,529  
     
The composition of the changes in net assets of the Allegheny Master Trust is as follows:
                                                 
                                    T. Rowe Price Structured Research
    Standish Mellon Fixed Income Fund   Alliance Capital Growth Pool   Common Trust Fund
    Years Ended December 31
    2006   2005   2006   2005   2006   2005
     
Investment income (loss):
                                               
Interest income
  $ 9,196,721     $ 9,077,315     $     $     $       $  
Net realized/unrealized gain (loss) on corporate common stocks
    6,246       (543 )           (1 )     11,900       (1,585,846 )
Dividends
                                    427,913  
Net loss, registered investment companies
          (7,739 )                        
Net gain (loss), pooled separate accounts
                (283,791 )     4,438,949              
Net gain, common collective trusts
    851,445       443,616                   10,226,870       4,781,495  
Administrative expenses
    (242,636 )     (254,334 )     (98,140 )     (129,310 )     (403,225 )     (461,975 )
Transfers
    14,124,671       4,681,472       (5,060,685 )     (2,665,712 )     (3,924,321 )     (10,910,725 )
     
Net increase (decrease)
    23,936,447       13,939,787       (5,442,616 )     1,643,926       5,911,224       (7,749,138 )
Total net assets at beginning of year
    212,771,105       198,831,318       39,768,016       38,124,090       66,265,529       74,014,667  
     
Total net assets at end of year
  $ 236,707,552     $ 212,771,105     $ 34,325,400     $ 39,768,016     $ 72,176,753     $ 66,265,529  
     
Interest, realized and unrealized gains and losses, and management fees from the Allegheny Master Trust are included in the net gain from interest in Allegheny Master Trust on the statements of changes in net assets available for benefits.

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Savings and Security Plan of the
Lockport and Waterbury Facilities
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
4. Income Tax Status
The Plan has received a determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service dated July 11, 2003, stating that the Plan is qualified under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code (the Code) and, therefore, the related trust is exempt from taxation. Subsequent to this issuance of the determination letter, the Plan was amended. Once qualified, the Plan is required to operate in conformity with the Code to maintain its qualification. The plan administrator believes that the Plan is being operated in compliance with the applicable requirements of the Code and, therefore, believes that the Plan is qualified and the related trust is tax-exempt.
5. Parties-in-Interest
Dreyfus Corporation is the manager of the Dreyfus Mutual Funds that are offered as investment options under this Plan. Dreyfus Service Corporation is the funds’ distributor. The Boston Company is the manager of the Short Term Investment Fund. Dreyfus Corporation, Dreyfus Service Corporation and The Boston Company are wholly owned subsidiaries of Mellon Financial Corporation. Mellon Financial Corporation also owns Mellon Bank, N.A., the trustee for this Plan. T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. is the manager of the T. Rowe Price Structured Research Common Trust Fund. Therefore, transactions with these entities qualify as party-in-interest transactions.
6. Plan Termination
Although it has not expressed any intent to do so, the Company has the right under the Plan to discontinue its contributions at any time and to terminate the Plan subject to the provisions of ERISA. However, no such action may deprive any participant or beneficiary under the Plan of any vested right.
7. Risks and Uncertainties
The Plan invests in various investment securities. Investment securities are exposed to various risk such as interest rate, market, and credit risks. Due to the level of risk associated with certain investment securities, it is at least reasonably possible that changes in the values of investment securities will occur in the near term and that such changes could materially affect participants’ account balances and the amounts reported in the statements of net assets available for benefits.

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Savings and Security Plan of the
Lockport and Waterbury Facilities
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
8. Reconciliation of Financial Statements to Form 5500
The following is a reconciliation of net assets available for benefits per the financial statements to the Form 5500:
         
    December 31  
    2006  
Net assets available for benefits per the financial statements
  $ 8,744,583  
Deemed distribution of benefits to participants
    (18,068 )
 
     
Net assets available for benefits per the Form 5500
  $ 8,726,515  
 
     

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Savings and Security Plan of the
Lockport and Waterbury Facilities
EIN: 25-1792394 Plan: 007
Schedule H, Line 4i—Schedule of Assets (Held at End of Year)
December 31, 2006
                 
Description   Units/Shares     Current Value  
 
Registered Investment Companies:
               
Dreyfus Bond Market Index*
    15,635.7100     $ 156,201  
Dreyfus Emerging Leaders Fund*
    14,203.9980       493,305  
Artisan Funds
    2,641.9980       80,475  
Dreyfus Appreciation Fund*
    269.9900       11,823  
Oakmark Balanced Funds
    12,823.7080       331,878  
PIMCO Total Return Funds
    11,478.5000       119,147  
Hartford Midcap Funds
    5,614.7750       151,543  
Lord, Abbett Mid Cap Funds
    4,816.0600       107,880  
MFS Value Funds
    3,929.3280       105,188  
Morgan Stanley Small Co
    8,932.9360       118,906  
Allianz NFJ Funds
    5,537.4980       173,047  
Dreyfus International Value Fund*
    14,151.5610       276,804  
Jennison Growth Fund
    6,730.3870       110,647  
 
             
Total registered investment companies
          $ 2,236,844  
 
             
     
Participant loans* (8.25% to 9.25%, with maturities through 2012)
    413,685.9700     $ 413,686  
 
             
 
               
Corporate Common Stocks
               
Allegheny Technologies Incorporated*
    13,894.0000     $ 1,259,908  
 
             
     
Common Collective Trusts
               
The Boston Company Short Term Investment Fund*
    319,590.3700     $ 319,590  
 
             
 
*   Party-in-interest

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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the administrators of the Plan have duly caused this annual report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
         
    ALLEGHENY TECHNOLOGIES INCORPORATED
SAVINGS AND SECURITY PLAN OF THE
LOCKPORT AND WATERBURY FACILITIES
 
       
 
  By:        /s/ Richard J. Harshman
 
       
Date: June 22, 2007
      Richard J. Harshman
 
      Executive Vice President-Finance and
 
      Chief Financial Officer
 
      (Principal Financial Officer and Duly
 
      Authorized Officer)