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Business Disposition | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2018
Business Combinations [Abstract] |
Business Disposition | Note 3—Business disposition — Waste Control Specialists LLC: Pursuant to an agreement we entered into in December 2017, on January 26, 2018 we completed the sale of our Waste Management Segment to JFL-WCS Partners, LLC ("JFL Partners"), an entity sponsored by certain investment affiliates of J.F. Lehman & Company, for consideration consisting of the assumption of all of WCS' third-party indebtedness and other liabilities. Our Waste Management Segment, which operated in the low-level radioactive, hazardous, toxic and other waste disposal industry historically struggled to generate sufficient recurring disposal volumes to generate positive operating results or cash flows. We believe the sale will enable us to focus more effort on continuing to develop our remaining segments which we believe have greater opportunity for higher returns than our Waste Management segment. In accordance with GAAP, the Waste Management Segment has been classified as discontinued operations in our Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets and Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income for all periods presented. Also in accordance with GAAP, we have not reclassified our Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows to reflect the Waste Management Segment as discontinued operations. We recognized a pre-tax gain of approximately $58 million in the first quarter of 2018 on the transaction ($38.2 million, or $.11 per diluted share, net of tax) because the carrying value of the liabilities of the business assumed by the purchaser exceeded the carrying value of the assets sold at the time of the sale in large part due to the previously-reported long-lived asset impairment of $170.6 million recognized in the second quarter of 2017, as discussed in the 2017 Annual Report. The net assets of the disposed Waste Management Segment at the time we completed the sale on January 26, 2018 were not materially different as compared to December 31, 2017. Selected financial data for the operations of the disposed Waste Management Segment for periods prior to completing the sale is presented below. Current assets at December 31, 2017 consist principally of trade accounts receivable.
|  | December 31, 2017 |
|  | (In millions) |
ASSETS |  |  |  |
Current assets |  | $ | 11.2 |
Restricted cash |  |  | 27.2 |
Property and equipment, net |  |  | 6.0 |
Other noncurrent assets |  |  | 7.6 |
Total noncurrent assets |  |  | 40.8 |
Total assets |  | $ | 52.0 |
LIABILITIES |  |  |  |
Current portion of long-term debt |  | $ | 3.0 |
Payable to Contran |  |  | 36.1 |
Other current liabilities |  |  | 8.2 |
Total current liabilities |  |  | 47.3 |
Long-term debt |  |  | 65.0 |
Deferred income taxes |  |  | (43.8 | )
Accrued noncurrent closure and post closure costs |  |  | 31.7 |
Total noncurrent liabilities |  |  | 52.9 |
Total liabilities |  | $ | 100.2 |
|  | Three months ended March 31, |
|  |  | 2017 |  |  |  | 2018(1) |
|  | (In millions) |
Net sales |  | $ | 21.5 |  |  | $ | 4.6 |
Operating income (loss) |  | $ | .6 |  |  | $ | (.4 | )
Other expense, net |  |  | (1.9 | ) |  |  | — |
Interest expense, net |  |  | (1.2 | ) |  |  | (.3 | )
Loss before taxes |  |  | (2.5 | ) |  |  | (.7 | )
Income tax expense (benefit) |  |  | (.8 | ) |  |  | .1 |
Net loss |  |  | (1.7 | ) |  |  | (.6 | )
Pre-tax gain on disposal |  |  | — |  |  |  | 58.4 |
Income tax expense |  |  | — |  |  |  | 20.2 |
After-tax gain on disposal |  |  | — |  |  |  | 38.2 |
Total |  | $ | (1.7 | ) |  | $ | 37.6 |
Net cash provided by operating activities |  | $ | 7.2 |  |  | $ | 2.3 |
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities |  | $ | (.5 | ) |  | $ | (.1 | )
(1) Includes results of the Waste Management Segment though January 26, 2018, the date of the sale. In connection with the January 2018 sale, JFL Partners did not assume WCS’ trade payable owed to Contran, which consisted primarily of intercorporate service fees charged to WCS by Contran which WCS did not pay to Contran for several years. Immediately prior to the closing of the sale of WCS, Contran transferred its associated receivable of $36.3 million from WCS to Valhi, in return for a deemed $36.3 million borrowing by Valhi under its revolving credit facility with Contran, see Note 8. Valhi subsequently contributed such receivable from WCS to WCS’s equity, and the trade payable obligation of WCS was deemed paid in full.

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