NEW YORK - (Business Wire) Fitch Ratings assigned an 'AA' on Rating Watch Evolving to the following Assured Guaranty insured issues on June 24, 2009: *Rhode Island & Providence Plantations, State of (RI), $13,400,000 (Information Technology Project) lease certificates of participation series 2009A
*Rhode Island & Providence Plantations, State of (RI), $11,365,000 (Energy Conservation Project) lease certificates of participation series 2009B
*South Haven (MI), $10,000,000 general obligation limited tax capital improvement series 2009
*Rhode Island & Providence Plantations, State of (RI), $28,810,000 (School for the Deaf Project) lease certificates of participation series 2009C
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