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Financing (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2021

Debt Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of Short-term Debt

We had the following Notes payable outstanding in the accompanying Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (in thousands) as of:

			March 31, 2021						December 31, 2020
			Balance Outstanding			Letters of Credit (a)			Balance Outstanding			Letters of Credit (a)
Term Loan			$	600,000		$	—		$	—		$	—
Revolving Credit Facility			—			16,629			—			24,730
CP Program			215,870			—			234,040			—
Total Notes payable			$	815,870		$	16,629		$	234,040		$	24,730

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(a) Letters of credit are off-balance sheet commitments that reduce the borrowing capacity available on our corporate Revolving Credit Facility.

Credit Facility and Short Term Debt Covenants

Our Revolving Credit Facility and term loans require compliance with the following financial covenant, which we were in compliance with at March 31, 2021:

As of March 31, 2021

Covenant Requirement

Consolidated Indebtedness to Capitalization Ratio

62.6%

Less than

65%

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Credit Facility and Short Term Debt Covenants

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Tabular disclosure of short-term debt arrangements (having initial terms of repayment within one year or the normal operating cycle, if longer) including: (1) description of the short-term debt arrangement; (2) identification of the lender or type of lender; (3) repayment terms; (4) weighted average interest rate; (5) carrying amount of funds borrowed under the specified short-term debt arrangement as of the balance sheet date; (6) description of the refinancing of a short-term obligation when that obligation is excluded from current liabilities in the balance sheet; and (7) amount of a short-term obligation that has been excluded from current liabilities in the balance sheet because of a refinancing of the obligation.

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