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Non-Operating Other, Net (LLC) (MidAmerican Funding, LLC and Subsidiaries [Domain])
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2012
MidAmerican Funding, LLC and Subsidiaries [Domain]
  
Components of Other Income (Expense), Nonoperating [Line Items]  
Other Income and Other Expense Disclosure [Text Block]
(16)    Non-Operating Other, Net

Non-operating income - other, net; as shown on the Consolidated Statements of Operations, includes the following other income and (expense) items for the years ended December 31 (in millions):
 
2012
 
2011
 
2010
 
 
 
 
 
 
Corporate-owned life insurance income
$
9

 
$
5

 
$
8

Reduction of environmental contingencies
—

 
—

 
5

Gains on sales of assets and other investments
2

 
2

 
—

Impairment of assets
—

 
—

 
(8
)
Other, net
2

 
3

 
(1
)
Total
$
13

 
$
10

 
$
4



In 2010, MidAmerican Funding recorded $5 million of income from the reduction of environmental contingencies related to its past divestiture of an oil and gas company for which MidAmerican Funding has determined its future liability is no longer probable.
MidAmerican Energy recorded an impairment loss of $8 million in 2010 for an asset held for sale.