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Share-Based Compensation (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2012
Long-Term Incentive Plan |
Share-based Compensation |
Summary of the status of non-vested shares |
|  | Shares |  | Weighted- Average Grant-Date Fair Value |
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Non-vested at January 1, 2012 |  |  | 1,634,154 |  | $ | 14.61 |
Granted |  |  | 50,837 |  |  | 22.52 |
Vested |  |  | (268,012 | ) |  | 8.38 |
Forfeited |  |  | (62,040 | ) |  | 16.68 |
Non-vested at September 30, 2012 |  |  | 1,354,939 |  | $ | 16.05 |
CALLC, CALLC II and CALLC III |
Share-based Compensation |
Schedule of key information for share-based compensation plans related to override units |
Award Type |  | Benchmark Value (per Unit) |  | Original Awards Issued |  | Grant Date |  | Compensation Expense for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011 |
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|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | (in thousands) |
Override Value Units |  | $ | 11.31 |  |  | 1,839,265 |  | June 2005 |  | $ | 4,960 |
Override Value Units |  | $ | 34.72 |  |  | 144,966 |  | December 2006 |  |  | 451 |
Override Units |  | $ | 10.00 |  |  | 642,219 |  | February 2008 |  |  | 184 |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Total |  | $ | 5,595 |
CVR Partners' Long-Term Incentive Plan |
Share-based Compensation |
Summary of the status of non-vested shares |
|  | Units |  | Weighted- Average Grant Date Fair Value |
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
|  | (in thousands) |
Non-vested at January 1, 2012 |  |  | 164,571 |  | $ | 22.99 |
Granted |  |  | — |  |  | — |
Vested |  |  | (21,159 | ) |  | 20.09 |
Forfeited |  |  | — |  |  | — |
Non-vested at September 30, 2012 |  |  | 143,412 |  | $ | 23.42 |

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