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Tenneco Automotive Announces Fourth Quarter Dividend

12 October 2000

Tenneco Automotive Announces Fourth Quarter Dividend

    LAKE FOREST, Ill., Oct. 10 Tenneco Automotive's
board of directors today declared a regular fourth quarter
dividend of 5 cents per share on its common stock.  The dividend is payable on
December 5, 2000 to stockholders of record at the close of business on
November 24, 2000.