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SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2019
Additional Cash Flow Elements and Supplemental Cash Flow Information [Abstract] |
Schedule of supplemental cash flow information |
|  | Nine Months Ended September 30
(in millions) |  | 2019 |  | 2018
Cash (paid) for interest, net of amount capitalized |  | $ | (317.9 | ) |  | $ | (278.1 | )
Cash (paid) for income taxes, net |  | (15.4 | ) |  | (55.9 | )
Significant non-cash investing and financing transactions: |  |  |  |
Accounts payable related to construction costs |  | 162.7 |  |  | 71.9 |
Non-cash capital contributions from noncontrolling interest |  | 14.6 |  |  | — |
Reconciliation of cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash | The following table reconciles the cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash amounts reported within the balance sheets at September 30 to the total of these amounts shown on the statements of cash flows:
(in millions) |  | 2019 |  | 2018
Cash and cash equivalents |  | $ | 20.0 |  |  | $ | 14.5 |
Restricted cash included in other long term assets |  | 46.6 |  |  | 25.7 |
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash |  | $ | 66.6 |  |  | $ | 40.2 |

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