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Other Long-Term Assets | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2013
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 September 30
| 2013 |  | 2012
EnergyRight® receivables | $ | 117 |  |  | $ | 115 |
Unamortized debt issue cost of power bonds | 75 |  |  | 70 |
Loans and other long-term receivables, net | 73 |  |  | 76 |
Coal contract derivative assets | 1 |  |  | 107 |
Prepaid capacity payments | 62 |  |  | 59 |
Currency swap assets | 28 |  |  | 21 |
Other | 89 |  |  | 61 |
Total other long-term assets | $ | 445 |  |  | $ | 509 |
TVA guarantees repayment on certain loans receivable from customers of TVA's LPCs in association with the EnergyRight® Solutions program. TVA sells the loans receivable to a third-party bank and has agreed with the bank to purchase any loan receivable that has been in default for 180 days or more or that TVA has determined is uncollectible. The transaction is accounted for as a financing arrangement. The loans receivable, and the financing obligation, are shown in Other long-term assets and Other long-term liabilities, respectively, on TVA's consolidated balance sheets. The current portion of the loans receivable and the associated financing obligation are shown in Current assets and Current liabilities, respectively, on TVA's consolidated balance sheets. At September 30, 2013, and 2012, the carrying amount of the loans receivable, net of discount, was approximately $150 million. The carrying amount of the financing obligation was approximately $186 million and $185 million at September 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. See Note 10.

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