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SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2018
Additional Cash Flow Elements and Supplemental Cash Flow Information [Abstract] |
Schedule of supplemental cash flow information |
|  | Nine Months Ended September 30
(in millions) |  | 2018 |  | 2017
Cash (paid) for interest, net of amount capitalized |  | $ | (278.1 | ) |  | $ | (258.2 | )
Cash (paid) received for income taxes, net |  | (55.9 | ) |  | 7.3 |
Significant non-cash transactions |  |  |  |
Accounts payable related to construction costs |  | 71.9 |  |  | 172.7 |
Portion of Bostco real estate holdings sale financed with note receivable * |  | — |  |  | 7.0 |
* | See Note 3, Disposition, for more information on this sale.
Reconciliation of cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash | See the following table for a reconciliation of cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash reported within the balance sheets to the sum of the total of the same amounts shown in the statements of cash flows at September 30:
(in millions) |  | 2018 |  | 2017
Cash and cash equivalents |  | $ | 14.5 |  |  | $ | 18.1 |
Restricted cash included in other long term assets |  | 25.7 |  |  | 20.4 |
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash |  | $ | 40.2 |  |  | $ | 38.5 |

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