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Other Long-Term Assets | 6 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2012
Deferred Costs, Capitalized, Prepaid, and Other Assets Disclosure [Abstract] |
Other Long-Term Assets | Other Long-Term Assets The table below summarizes the types and amounts of TVA’s other long-term assets:
Other Long-Term Assets
| At March 31, 2012 |  | At September 30, 2011
Coal contract derivative assets | $ | 120 |  |  | $ | 285 |
Loans and other long-term receivables, net | 81 |  |  | 74 |
Other | 70 |  |  | 13 |
Total other long-term assets | $ | 271 |  |  | $ | 372 |

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