PART 1. FINANCIAL INFORMATION

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ATMOS ENERGY CORPORATION

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME

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ATMOS ENERGY CORPORATION

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

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ATMOS ENERGY CORPORATION  

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

1.     Nature of Business

      Atmos Energy Corporation (“Atmos” or “the Company”) and its subsidiaries are engaged primarily in the natural gas utility business as well as certain nonutility businesses. Through our natural gas utility business, we distribute natural gas through sales and transportation arrangements to approximately 3.2 million residential, commercial, public-authority and industrial customers through our seven regulated natural gas utility divisions, which cover the following service areas:

(1)	Acquired in October 2004.
(2)	Denotes locations where we have more limited service areas.

      As further described in Note 3, on October 1, 2004, we completed our acquisition of the natural gas distribution and pipeline operations of TXU Gas Company (TXU Gas). The TXU Gas operations we acquired are regulated businesses engaged in the purchase, transmission, storage, distribution and sale of natural gas in the north-central, eastern and western parts of Texas. We also own and operate a system consisting of 6,162 miles of gas transmission and gathering lines and five underground storage reservoirs, all within Texas. On October 1, 2004, we created the Atmos Energy Mid-Tex Division to provide gas distribution services to the approximately 1.5 million residential and business customers in Texas, including the Dallas/ Fort Worth metropolitan area we acquired from TXU Gas. We also created the Atmos Pipeline — Texas Division to manage the TXU Gas pipeline and storage operations we acquired.

      In addition, we transport natural gas for others through our distribution system. Our utility business is subject to federal and state regulation and/or regulation by local authorities in each of the states in which the utility divisions operate. Our shared-services division is located in Dallas, Texas, and our customer support centers are located in Amarillo, Texas, and Metairie, Louisiana. However, on November 4, 2004, we entered into an agreement with Capgemini Energy L.P. pursuant to which we will assume the operations of the Waco, Texas call center on April 1, 2005 and will close the purchase of the related assets on October 1, 2005. In connection therewith, all call center services provided by TXU Gas under the transitional services agreement will terminate on April 1, 2005.

      Our nonutility businesses include our natural gas marketing operations, our pipeline and storage operations and our other nonutility operations which are provided in 18 states. These operations are either organized under or managed by Atmos Energy Holdings, Inc. (AEH), which is wholly-owned by Atmos Energy Corporation.

      Our natural gas marketing operations are managed by Atmos Energy Marketing, LLC (AEM), which is wholly-owned by AEH. AEM provides a variety of natural gas management services to municipalities, natural

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gas utility systems and industrial natural gas customers, primarily in the southeastern and midwestern states and to our Colorado-Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana and Mid-States divisions. These services consist primarily of furnishing natural gas supplies at fixed and market-based prices, contract negotiation and administration, load forecasting, gas storage acquisition and management services, transportation services, peaking sales and balancing services, capacity utilization strategies and gas price hedging through the use of derivative instruments.

      Our pipeline and storage operations consist of the operations of the Atmos Pipeline – Texas Division, a division of Atmos Energy Corporation; and of Atmos Pipeline and Storage, LLC (APS), which is wholly-owned by AEH. As previously discussed, the Atmos Pipeline — Texas Division was purchased from TXU Gas and supplies natural gas to the Atmos Energy Mid-Tex Division, transports natural gas to third parties and manages five underground storage reservoirs in Texas. Through APS, we own or have an interest in underground storage fields in Kentucky and Louisiana. We also use these storage facilities to reduce the need to contract for additional pipeline capacity to meet customer demand during peak periods.

      Our other nonutility businesses consist primarily of the operations of Atmos Energy Services, LLC (AES) and Atmos Power Systems, Inc., which are wholly-owned by AEH. Through AES, we provide natural gas management services to our utility operations. These services, which began April 1, 2004, include aggregating and purchasing gas supply, arranging transportation and storage logistics and ultimately delivering the gas to our utility service areas at competitive prices. Through Atmos Power Systems, Inc., we construct electric peaking power-generating plants and associated facilities and may enter into agreements to either lease or sell these plants.

      In the opinion of management, all material adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals) necessary for a fair presentation have been made to the unaudited consolidated interim-period financial statements. These consolidated interim-period financial statements and notes are condensed as permitted by the instructions to Form 10-Q and should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements of Atmos Energy Corporation (“Atmos” or “the Company”) in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004. Because of seasonal and other factors, the results of operations for the three months ended December 31, 2004 are not indicative of expected results of operations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005. Further, the impact of the TXU Gas acquisition on the statement of cash flows is reflected in the acquisitions line item; therefore, the net changes in operating assets and liabilities will not reflect balance sheet changes attributable to the acquisition.

      Our accounting policies are described in Note 2 to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2004. There were no significant changes to our accounting policies during the three months ended December 31, 2004.

      We have two stock-based compensation plans that provide for the granting of incentive stock options, nonqualified stock options, stock appreciation rights, bonus stock, restricted stock and performance-based restricted stock units to officers and key employees: the 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan and the Long-Term Stock Plan for the Mid-States Division. Nonemployee directors are also eligible to receive such stock-based compensation under the 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan. The objectives of these plans include attracting and retaining the best personnel, providing for additional performance incentives and promoting our success by providing employees with the opportunity to acquire common stock.

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      As permitted by Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation, we account for these plans under the intrinsic-value method described in Accounting Principles Board (APB) Opinion 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees . Under this method, no compensation cost for stock options is recognized for stock-option awards granted at or above fair-market value. Awards of restricted stock are valued at the market price of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant. The unearned compensation is amortized to operation and maintenance expense over the vesting period of the restricted stock.

      Had compensation expense for our stock options issued under the Long-Term Incentive Plan been recognized based on the fair value on the grant date under the methodology prescribed by SFAS 123, our net income and earnings per share for the three months ended December 31, 2004 and 2003 would have been impacted as shown in the following table:

      At December 31, 2004, there were 300 options outstanding under the Long-Term Stock Plan for the Mid-States Division, all of which were fully vested. Because of the limited activities of this plan, the pro forma effects of applying SFAS 123 would have less than a $0.01 per diluted share effect on earnings per share.

      We record certain costs as regulatory assets in accordance with SFAS 71, Accounting for the Effects of Certain Types of Regulation, when future recovery through customer rates is considered probable. Regulatory liabilities are recorded when it is probable that revenues will be reduced for amounts that will be credited to customers through the ratemaking process. Substantially all of our regulatory assets are recorded as a component of deferred charges and substantially all of our regulatory liabilities are recorded as a component of deferred credits and other liabilities. Deferred gas costs are recorded either in other current assets or liabilities

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and the regulatory cost of removal obligation is separately reported. Significant regulatory assets and liabilities as of December 31, 2004 and September 30, 2004 included the following:

(1)	Fully amortized by December 2004.

      Currently authorized rates do not include a return on our merger and integration costs; however, we recover the amortization of these costs. Merger and integration costs, net, are generally amortized on a straight-line basis over estimated useful lives ranging up to 20 years. Certain environmental costs have been deferred to future rate filings in accordance with rulings received from various regulatory commissions.

      The following table presents the components of comprehensive income, net of related tax, for the three-month periods ended December 31, 2004 and 2003:

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      Accumulated other comprehensive loss, net of tax, as of December 31, 2004 and September 30, 2004 consisted of the following unrealized gains (losses):

      In December 2004, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued SFAS 123 (revised), Share-Based Payment . This standard revises SFAS 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation and supersedes APB Opinion 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees . Under SFAS 123 (R), public companies will be required to measure the cost of employee services received in exchange for stock options and similar awards based on the grant-date fair value of the award and recognize this cost in the income statement over the period during which an employee is required to provide service in exchange for the award. SFAS 123 (R) will become effective for the Company on a prospective basis during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005. Upon adoption, we will recognize compensation cost for the portion of outstanding awards for which the requisite service has not yet been rendered, based upon the grant-date fair value of those awards calculated under SFAS 123 for pro forma disclosure purposes. The standard also permits us to restate prior period information on a basis consistent with the calculations used for our pro forma stock compensation disclosure. We are currently assessing the impact of this standard and whether we will restate prior period information.

3.     TXU Gas Acquisition

      On October 1, 2004, we completed our acquisition of the natural gas distribution and pipeline operations of TXU Gas Company (TXU Gas). The purchase was accounted for as an asset purchase. The TXU Gas operations we acquired are regulated businesses engaged in the purchase, transmission, storage, distribution and sale of natural gas in the north-central, eastern and western parts of Texas. Through these newly acquired operations, we provide gas distribution services to approximately 1.5 million residential and business customers in Texas, including the Dallas/ Fort Worth metropolitan area. We also now own and operate a system consisting of 6,162 miles of gas transmission and gathering lines and five underground storage reservoirs in Texas.

      The purchase price for the TXU Gas acquisition was approximately $1.905 billion (after preliminary closing adjustments and before transaction costs and expenses), which we paid in cash. We acquired approximately $121 million of working capital of TXU Gas and did not assume any indebtedness of TXU Gas in connection with the acquisition. TXU Gas retained certain assets and provided for the repayment of all of its indebtedness and redeemed all of its preferred stock prior to closing and retained and agreed to pay certain other liabilities under the terms of the acquisition agreement. The purchase price is subject to adjustment for the actual amount of working capital we acquired and other specified matters. We anticipate that the working capital settlement will be finalized during the second quarter of fiscal 2005.

      We funded the purchase price for the TXU Gas acquisition with approximately $235.7 million in net proceeds from our offering of 9,939,393 shares of common stock, which we completed on July 19, 2004, and approximately $1.7 billion in net proceeds from our issuance on October 1, 2004 of commercial paper

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backstopped by a senior unsecured revolving credit agreement, which we entered into on September 24, 2004 for bridge financing for the TXU Gas acquisition. In October 2004, we paid off the outstanding commercial paper used to fund the acquisition through the issuance of senior unsecured notes on October 22, 2004, which generated net proceeds of approximately $1.39 billion, and the sale of 16.1 million shares of common stock on October 27, 2004, which generated net proceeds of $382.0 million.

      The following table summarizes the fair values of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed on October 1, 2004, in thousands:

      The sale of TXU Gas’s assets was held through a competitive bid process. We believe the resulting goodwill is recoverable given the expected synergies we can achieve as a result of the TXU Gas acquisition. To that end, the TXU Gas acquisition significantly expands our existing utility operations in Texas. The North Texas operations of TXU Gas bridge our geographic operations between our existing utility operations in West Texas and Louisiana. TXU Gas’s headquarters and service area are centered in Dallas, Texas, which is also the location of our corporate headquarters. Further, the addition of the regulated pipelines and storage operations in North Texas may create additional gas marketing and other opportunities for our non-regulated subsidiaries, which include gas marketing and storage operations. The goodwill generated in the acquisition is deductible for tax purposes.

      Our allocation of the purchase price is preliminary and is subject to change due to the pending completion of the working capital settlement and our continuing review of the acquired assets and liabilities. The amount currently allocated to property, plant and equipment represents our estimate of the fair value of the assets acquired. We have based that estimate on the amount we believe will ultimately be approved as rate base for rate setting purposes.

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      The table below reflects the unaudited pro forma results of the Company and TXU Gas for the three months ended December 31, 2003 as if the acquisition and related financing had taken place at the beginning of fiscal 2004 (in thousands, except per share data):

      Goodwill and intangible assets are comprised of the following as of December 31, 2004 and September 30, 2004.

      The following presents our goodwill balance allocated by segment and changes in our balance for the three months ended December 31, 2004:

(1)

Effective October 1, 2004, we created the pipeline and storage segment which reflects the regulated pipeline and storage operations of the Atmos Pipeline — Texas Division and the nonregulated pipeline and storage operations of Atmos Pipeline and Storage, LLC, which was previously included in our other nonutility segment. Accordingly, goodwill allocable to Atmos Pipeline and Storage, LLC was transferred to the pipeline and storage segment.

      We conduct risk management activities through both our utility and natural gas marketing segments. We record our derivatives as a component of risk management assets and liabilities, which are classified as current or noncurrent other assets or liabilities based upon the anticipated settlement date of the underlying derivative. Our determination of the fair value of these derivative financial instruments reflects the estimated amounts that we would receive or pay to terminate or close the contracts at the reporting date, taking into account the current unrealized gains and losses on open contracts. In our determination of fair value, we consider various factors, including closing exchange and over-the-counter quotations, time value and volatility factors underlying the contracts.

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      The following table shows the fair values of our risk management assets and liabilities by segment at December 31, 2004 and September 30, 2004:

      We use a combination of storage, fixed physical contracts and fixed financial contracts to partially insulate us and our customers against gas price volatility during the winter heating season. Because the gains or losses of financial derivatives used in our utility segment will ultimately be recovered through our rates, current period changes in the assets and liabilities from these risk management activities are recorded as a component of deferred gas costs in accordance with SFAS 71, Accounting for the Effects of Certain Types of Regulation . Accordingly, there is no earnings impact to our utility segment as a result of the use of financial derivatives. For the 2004-2005 heating season, we have hedged approximately 50 percent of our anticipated winter flowing gas requirements at a weighted average cost of approximately $6.22 per Mcf. Our utility hedging activities also include the cost of our Treasury lock agreements which are described in further detail below.

      AEM manages its exposure to the risk of natural gas price changes through a combination of storage and financial derivatives, including futures, over-the-counter and exchange-traded options and swap contracts with counterparties. Our financial derivative activities include fair value hedges to offset changes in the fair value of our natural gas inventory and cash flow hedges to offset anticipated purchases and sales of gas in the future.

      Effective April 1, 2004, we elected to treat our fixed-price forward contracts as normal purchases and sales and ceased marking these contracts to market. As a result, unrealized gains and losses on these open derivative contracts are now recorded as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income and are recognized in earnings as a component of revenue when the hedged volumes are sold.

      For the three months ended December 31, 2004, the change in the deferred hedging position in accumulated other comprehensive income from an unrealized gain as of September 30, 2004 to an unrealized loss as of December 31, 2004 was attributable to increases in future commodity prices relative to the commodity prices stipulated in the derivative contracts, and the recognition of $4.3 million in net deferred hedge gains in net income when the derivatives matured according to their terms. The net deferred hedge loss associated with open cash flow hedges remains subject to market price fluctuations until the positions are

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either settled under the terms of the hedge contracts or terminated prior to settlement. Substantially all of the deferred hedging position as of December 31, 2004 is expected to be recognized in net income during fiscal 2005.

      Under our risk management policies, we seek to match our financial derivative positions to our physical storage positions as well as our expected current and future sales and purchase obligations to maintain no open positions at the end of each trading day. The determination of our net open position as of any day, however, requires us to make assumptions as to future circumstances, including the use of gas by our customers in relation to our anticipated storage and market positions. Because the price risk associated with any net open position at the end of each day may increase if the assumptions are not realized, we review these assumptions as part of our daily monitoring activities. We can also be affected by intraday fluctuations of gas prices, since the price of natural gas purchased or sold for future delivery earlier in the day may not be hedged until later in the day. At times, limited net open positions related to our existing and anticipated commitments may occur. At the close of business on December 31, 2004, AEH had a net open position (including existing storage) of 0.3 Bcf.

      During fiscal 2004, we entered into four Treasury lock agreements to fix the Treasury yield component of the interest cost of financing associated with the anticipated issuance of $875 million of long-term debt subsequent to September 30, 2004. This long-term debt was issued on October 22, 2004 and was used to repay a portion of the commercial paper used to fund the TXU Gas acquisition, as described in Note 3. We designated these Treasury lock agreements as cash flow hedges of an anticipated transaction. These Treasury lock agreements were settled in October 2004 with a net $43.8 million payment to the counterparties. This amount will remain in accumulated other comprehensive income and will be recognized as a component of interest expense over the next ten years. During the first quarter of fiscal 2005, we recognized approximately $0.9 million of this obligation as a component of interest expense.

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6.     Debt

      Long-term debt at December 31, 2004 and September 30, 2004 consisted of the following:

      Our unsecured floating rate debt bears interest at a rate equal to the three-month LIBOR rate plus 0.375 percent per year. At December 31, 2004, the interest rate on our floating rate debt was 2.465 percent.

      At December 31, 2004, short-term debt consisted of $15.0 million of commercial paper and $13.8 million outstanding under our bank credit facilities. At September 30, 2004, there were no short-term amounts outstanding under our commercial paper program or bank credit facilities.

      We maintain both committed and uncommitted credit facilities. Borrowings under our uncommitted credit facilities are made on a when-and-as-needed basis at the discretion of the bank. Our credit capacity and the amount of unused borrowing capacity are affected by the seasonal nature of the natural gas business and

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our short-term borrowing requirements, which are typically highest during colder winter months. Our working capital needs can vary significantly due to changes in the price of natural gas charged by suppliers and the increased gas supplies required to meet customers’ needs during periods of cold weather.

      As of December 31, 2004, we had two short-term committed credit facilities totaling $618.0 million, one of which is an unsecured facility for $600.0 million that bears interest at the Eurodollar rate plus 0.625 percent and serves as a backup liquidity facility for our $600.0 million commercial paper program. At December 31, 2004, $15.0 million of commercial paper was outstanding. We entered into this facility on October 22, 2004 to replace our $350.0 million credit facility that served as the backup liquidity facility for our $350.0 million commercial paper program.

      We have a second unsecured facility in place for $18.0 million that bears interest at the Fed Funds rate plus 0.5 percent and is used for working-capital purposes. At December 31, 2004, we had borrowed $13.8 million under this credit facility.

      The availability of funds under our credit facilities is subject to conditions specified in the respective credit agreements, all of which we currently meet. These conditions include our compliance with financial covenants and the continued accuracy of representations and warranties contained in these agreements. We are required by the financial covenants in our $600.0 million credit facility to maintain, at the end of each fiscal quarter, a ratio of total debt to total capitalization of no greater than 70 percent. The total debt to total capitalization ratio is calculated quarterly and up to $200.0 million in short-term debt may be excluded from the defined capitalization ratio only for the three months ended December 31, 2004. At December 31, 2004, our total-debt-to-total-capitalization ratio, as defined, was 61 percent. Pursuant to the terms of the credit facility, we excluded $28.8 million of short-term debt from the calculation of our total-debt-to-total-capitalization ratio as of December 31, 2004. In addition, both the interest margin over the Eurodollar rate and the fee that we pay on unused amounts under our $600.0 million credit facility are subject to adjustment depending upon our credit ratings.

      AEM has a $250.0 million uncommitted-demand working capital credit facility that bears interest at the Eurodollar rate plus 2.5 percent and expires on March 31, 2005. This facility is guaranteed by AEH. At December 31, 2004, no amounts were outstanding under this credit facility. However, at December 31, 2004, AEM letters of credit totaling $117.2 million had been issued under the facility and reduce the amount available that can be borrowed. The amount available under this credit facility is also limited by various covenants, including covenants based on working capital. Under the most restrictive covenant, the amount available to AEM under this credit facility was $32.8 million at December 31, 2004. Finally, this line of credit is collateralized by a blocked account maintained at AEM whereby collections from customers are deposited into the account and AEM withdraws funds from the account through an established approval process.

      Atmos Energy Corporation also has an unsecured short-term uncommitted credit line for $25.0 million that is used for working-capital and letter-of-credit purposes. There were no borrowings under this uncommitted credit facility at December 31, 2004, but Atmos Energy Corporation (AEC) letters of credit reduced the amount available by $4.1 million. This uncommitted line is renewed or renegotiated at least annually with varying terms, and we pay no fee for the availability of the line. Borrowings under this line are made on a when- and as-available basis at the discretion of the bank.

      In addition, AEM has a $100.0 million intercompany credit facility with AEC through AEH for its nonutility business which bears interest at the Eurodollar rate plus 2.75 percent. Any outstanding amounts under this facility are subordinated to AEM’s $250.0 million uncommitted-demand credit facility described

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above. This facility is used to supplement AEM’s $250.0 million credit facility and has been approved by our state regulators through December 31, 2005. At December 31, 2004, $15.0 million was outstanding under this facility and is eliminated in consolidation.

      In addition to the 70 percent limit on our total debt-to-capitalization ratio imposed by our committed credit facilities, most of the First Mortgage Bonds contain provisions that allow us to prepay the outstanding balance in whole at any time, subject to a prepayment premium. The First Mortgage Bonds provide for certain cash flow requirements and restrictions on additional indebtedness, sale of assets and payment of dividends. Under the most restrictive of such covenants, cumulative cash dividends paid after December 31, 1988 may not exceed the sum of accumulated net income for periods after December 31, 1988 plus $15.0 million. At December 31, 2004 approximately $138.7 million of retained earnings was unrestricted with respect to the payment of dividends.

      We were in compliance with all of our debt covenants as of December 31, 2004. If we do not comply with our debt covenants, we may be required to repay our outstanding balances on demand, provide additional collateral or take other corrective actions. Our two public debt indentures relating to our senior notes and debentures, as well as our $600.0 million revolving credit agreement, each contain a default provision that is triggered if outstanding indebtedness arising out of any other credit agreements in amounts ranging from in excess of $15 million to in excess of $100 million becomes due by acceleration or is not paid at maturity. In addition, AEM’s credit agreement contains a cross-default provision whereby AEM would be in default if it defaults on any other financial obligation, as defined, by at least $250 thousand. Additionally, this agreement contains a provision that would limit the amount of credit available if Atmos is downgraded below an S&P rating of BBB and a Moody’s rating of Baa2.

      Except as described above, we have no triggering events in our debt instruments that are tied to changes in specified credit ratings or stock price, nor have we entered into any transactions that would require us to issue equity based on our credit rating or other triggering events.

      On October 27, 2004, we completed the public offering of 16,100,000 shares of our common stock including the underwriters’ exercise of their overallotment option of 2,100,000 shares. The offering was priced at $24.75 and generated net proceeds of approximately $382.0 million. We used the net proceeds from this offering, together with net proceeds of $235.7 million from a public offering we conducted in July 2004 and $1.39 billion received from the issuance of senior unsecured notes to pay off the $1.7 billion in outstanding commercial paper described in Note 3 and fund the remainder of the purchase price for the TXU Gas acquisition.

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      Basic and diluted earnings per share at December 31 are calculated as follows:

      There were no out-of-the-money options excluded from the computation of diluted earnings per share for the three months ended December 31, 2004. There were 240,118 out-of-the-money options excluded from the computation of diluted earnings per share for the three months ended December 31, 2003 as their exercise price was greater than the average market price of the common stock.

      The components of our net periodic pension cost for our pension and other post-retirement benefit plans for the three months ended December 31, 2004 and 2003 are presented below. All of these costs are recoverable through our gas utility rates; however, a portion of these costs is capitalized into our utility rate base. The remaining costs are recorded as a component of operation and maintenance expense. The amounts for the three months ended December 31, 2003 do not reflect the impact of the Medicare Prescription Drug,

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Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (the Act) as we recognized the impact of the Act beginning in the second quarter of fiscal 2004.