KINDER MORGAN, INC. | 2013 | FY | 3


Regulatory Assets and Liabilities
 
Regulatory assets and liabilities represent probable future revenues or expenses associated with certain charges and credits that will be recovered from or refunded to customers through the ratemaking process.  We included the amounts of our regulatory assets and liabilities within “Other current assets,” “Deferred charges and other assets,” “Other current liabilities” and “Other long-term liabilities and deferred credits,” respectively, in our accompanying consolidated balance sheets. As of December 31, 2013, the recovery period for these regulatory assets was approximately one year to forty-two years

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