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Other Long-Term Assets | 3 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 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 December 31, 2013 |  | At September 30, 2013
EnergyRight® receivables | $ | 118 |  |  | $ | 117 |
Unamortized debt issue cost of power bonds | 74 |  |  | 75 |
Loans and other long-term receivables, net | 79 |  |  | 73 |
Prepaid capacity payments | 60 |  |  | 62 |
Currency swap asset, net | 4 |  |  | 28 |
Coal contract derivative assets | — |  |  | 1 |
Other | 92 |  |  | 89 |
Other long-term assets | $ | 427 |  |  | $ | 445 |
TVA guarantees repayment on certain loans receivable from customers of TVA's local power company customers ("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 long-term portion of the loans receivable and the financing obligation is 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 is shown in Accounts receivable, net and Accounts payable and accrued liabilities, respectively, on TVA's consolidated balance sheets. At December 31, 2013, and September 30, 2013, the carrying amount of the loans receivable, net of discount, was approximately $151 million and $150 million, respectively. The carrying amount of the financing obligation was approximately $186 million at December 31, 2013 and September 30, 2013. See Note 10.

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