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Regulatory Assets and Liabilities | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2019
Regulated Operations [Abstract] |
REGULATORY ASSETS AND LIABILITIES | REGULATORY ASSETS AND LIABILITIES The Company has recorded regulatory assets and liabilities (in millions) that it expects to pass through to its customers in accordance with, and subject to, regulatory provisions as follows:
December 31, | 2019 |  | 2018 |  | Recovery/Refund Period
Regulatory assets |  |  |
Current regulatory assets: |  |  |  |  |
El Salvador energy pass through costs recovery | $ | 56 |  |  | $ | 87 |  |  | Quarterly
Other | 57 |  |  | 69 |  |  | 1 year
Total current regulatory assets | 113 |  |  | 156 |  |  |
Noncurrent regulatory assets: |  |  |  |  |
IPL and DPL defined benefit pension obligations (1) | 262 |  |  | 283 |  |  | Various
IPL deferred Midwest ISO costs | 75 |  |  | 88 |  |  | 9 years
IPL environmental costs | 85 |  |  | 89 |  |  | Various
Other | 108 |  |  | 87 |  |  | Various
Total noncurrent regulatory assets | 530 |  |  | 547 |  |  |
Total regulatory assets | $ | 643 |  |  | $ | 703 |  |  |
Regulatory liabilities |  |  |  |  |
Current regulatory liabilities: |  |  |  |  |
Overcollection of costs to be passed back to customers | $ | 80 |  |  | $ | 83 |  |  | 1 year
Other | 1 |  |  | 3 |  |  | Various
Total current regulatory liabilities | 81 |  |  | 86 |  |  |
Noncurrent regulatory liabilities: |  |  |  |  |
IPL and DPL accrued costs of removal and AROs | 863 |  |  | 847 |  |  | Over life of assets
IPL and DPL income taxes payable to customers through rates | 209 |  |  | 246 |  |  | Various
Other | 18 |  |  | 53 |  |  | Various
Total noncurrent regulatory liabilities | 1,090 |  |  | 1,146 |  |  |
Total regulatory liabilities | $ | 1,171 |  |  | $ | 1,232 |  |  |
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(1) | Past expenditures on which the Company earns a rate of return.
Our regulatory assets and current regulatory liabilities primarily consist of under or overcollection of costs that are generally non-controllable, such as purchased electricity, energy transmission, fuel costs, and other sector costs. These costs are recoverable or refundable as defined by the laws and regulations in our markets. Our regulatory assets also include defined pension and postretirement benefit obligations equal to the previously unrecognized actuarial gains and losses and prior service costs that are expected to be recovered through future rates. Other current and noncurrent regulatory assets primarily consist of:
• | Undercollections on rate riders such as wholesale margin sharing and MISO costs at IPL and storm costs at DPL;
• | Unamortized premiums reacquired or redeemed on long-term debt at IPL and DPL, which are amortized over the lives of the original issuances; and
• | OVEC costs at DPL.
Our noncurrent regulatory liabilities primarily consist of obligations for removal costs which do not have an associated legal retirement obligation. Our noncurrent regulatory liabilities also include deferred income taxes related to differences in income recognition between tax laws and accounting methods, which will be passed through to our regulated customers via a decrease in future retail rates. See Note 23—Income Taxes for further information. In the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets the current regulatory assets and liabilities are reflected in Other current assets and Accrued and other liabilities, respectively, and the noncurrent regulatory assets and liabilities are reflected in Other noncurrent assets and Other noncurrent liabilities, respectively. All of the regulatory assets and liabilities as of December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018 related to the US and Utilities SBU.

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