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Environmental Spending
Sunoco has a financial management system for compiling, analyzing, and reporting environmental expenditures of both a capital and expense nature. Costs are reported at the facility, business unit, and corporate levels. Environmental expenditures also are disclosed in various external reports.

Expense spending includes operation and maintenance costs for pollution abatement equipment, remediation and cleanup costs, waste disposal, contractor costs, personnel expenses and incremental costs to produce and distribute reformulated fuels.

Capital spending includes all environmental expenditures classified as capital improvements, such as installing air and water pollution control equipment. Projected capital expenditures for 2009 and 2010 include continued outlays to meet existing laws and regulations.

Environmental Expenditures
(Millions of dollars)
  Capital Expenditures Expense Spending
2004 258 173
2005 498 242
2006 282 308
2007 230 237
2008 356 252
2009 223*
2010 111*

* Estimated expenditures

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