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Regulatory Assets and Liabilities (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2020
Regulated Operations [Abstract] |
Schedule of regulatory assets and liabilities | Regulatory assets and liabilities were comprised of the following as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019:
| Recovery Period |  | March 31, 2020 |  | December 31, 2019
Regulatory Assets |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Pension and retiree group health | Indefinitely |  | $ | 208,157 |  |  | $ | 208,321 |
Property-related temporary differences (tax benefits flowed through to customers) | Indefinitely |  | 105,600 |  |  | 104,931 |
Other accrued benefits | Indefinitely |  | 20,885 |  |  | 20,030 |
Net WRAM and MCBA long-term accounts receivable | 1-2 years |  | 31,693 |  |  | 25,465 |
Asset retirement obligations, net | Indefinitely |  | 20,045 |  |  | 19,567 |
Interim rates long-term accounts receivable | 1 year |  | 4,642 |  |  | 4,642 |
Tank coating | 10 years |  | 14,426 |  |  | 13,535 |
Recoverable property losses | 10 years |  | 4,856 |  |  | 5,000 |
PCBA | 1 year |  | 21,465 |  |  | 21,465 |
Other components of net periodic benefit cost | Indefinitely |  | 5,503 |  |  | 5,145 |
Other regulatory assets | Various |  | 5,547 |  |  | 5,221 |
Total Regulatory Assets |  |  | $ | 442,819 |  |  | $ | 433,322 |
Regulatory Liabilities |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Future tax benefits due to customers |  |  | $ | 194,459 |  |  | $ | 194,501 |
HCBA |  |  | 4,271 |  |  | 4,271 |
CEBA |  |  | 559 |  |  | 2,742 |
Net WRAM and MCBA long-term payable |  |  | 135 |  |  | 211 |
Tax accounting memorandum account |  |  | 853 |  |  | 806 |
Cost of capital memorandum account |  |  | 154 |  |  | 151 |
1,2,3 trichloropropane (TCP) settlement proceeds |  |  | 9,491 |  |  | 8,426 |
Other regulatory liabilities |  |  | 345 |  |  | 305 |
Total Regulatory Liabilities |  |  | $ | 210,267 |  |  | $ | 211,413 |

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