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SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2022
Additional Cash Flow Elements and Supplemental Cash Flow Information [Abstract] |
Schedule of supplemental cash flow information |
|  | Nine Months Ended September 30
(in millions) |  | 2022 |  | 2021
Cash paid for interest, net of amount capitalized |  | $ | 311.4 |  |  | $ | 310.9 |
Cash paid for income taxes, net |  | 52.3 |  |  | 33.8 |
Significant non-cash investing and financing transactions: |  |  |  |
Accounts payable related to construction costs |  | 170.9 |  |  | 144.0 |
Accounts payable related to Thunderhead acquisition milestone payments |  | 19.0 |  |  | — |
Increase in receivable related to insurance proceeds |  | — |  |  | 58.3 |
Liabilities accrued for software licensing agreement |  | 7.4 |  |  | — |
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 to the total of these amounts shown on the statements of cash flows:
(in millions) |  | September 30, 2022 |  | December 31, 2021
Cash and cash equivalents |  | $ | 28.5 |  |  | $ | 16.3 |
Restricted cash included in other current assets |  | 35.7 |  |  | 19.6 |
Restricted cash included in other long term assets |  | 51.8 |  |  | 51.6 |
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash |  | $ | 116.0 |  |  | $ | 87.5 |

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