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Other Long-Term Assets | 9 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2011
Other Long-Term Assets [Abstract] |
Other Long-Term Assets | 5. Other Long-Term Assets The table below summarizes the types and amounts of TVA’s other long-term assets:
Other Long-Term Assets |
|  | At June 30, 2011 |  |  | At September 30, 2010 |
Coal contract derivative assets |  | $ | 252 |  |  | $ | 103 |
Loans and other long-term receivables, net |  |  | 75 |  |  |  | 68 |
Currency swap assets |  |  | 14 |  |  |  | – |
Other long-term assets |  |  | 33 |  |  |  | 20 |
Total other long-term assets |  | $ | 374 |  |  | $ | 191 |

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