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Other Income and Expenses

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2012

Other Income and Expenses [Abstract]

Other Income and Expenses

Other Income and Expenses

Other income and expenses are as follows:

	Three months ended September 30,								Nine months ended September 30,
(in millions)	2012				2011				2012				2011
Other income:
Equity allowance for funds used during construction	$	23			$	18			$	71			$	74
Increase in cash surrender value of life insurance policies	6				6				20				19
Other	7				2				12				10
Total other income	$	36			$	26			$	103			$	103
Other expenses:
Civic, political and related activities and donations	$	5			$	6			$	22			$	21
Other	4				4				14				14
Total other expenses	$	9			$	10			$	36			$	35

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The entire disclosure for other income or other expense items (both operating and nonoperating). Sources of nonoperating income or nonoperating expense that may be disclosed, include amounts earned from dividends, interest on securities, profits (losses) on securities, net and miscellaneous other income or income deductions.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 225

-SubTopic 10

-Section S99

-Paragraph 2

-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03.3,6,7,9)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6880815&loc=d3e20235-122688



Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher SEC

-Name Regulation S-X (SX)

-Number 210

-Section 03

-Paragraph 3, 6, 7, 9

-Article 5

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