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<LEGEND>                      The schedule contains summary financial
                              information extracted from Consolidated
                              Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Statement of
                              Cash Flows for Orange and Rockland Utilities,
                              Inc. and is qualified in its entirety
                              by reference to such financial statements
                              and the notes thereto.

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<NAME> Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc.
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