March
9, 2006
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(Date
of Report - Date of earliest event
reported)
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KERR-McGEE
CORPORATION
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(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its
charter)
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Delaware
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1-16619
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73-1612389
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(State
of Incorporation)
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(Commission
File Number)
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(IRS
Employer Identification No.)
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123
Robert S. Kerr Avenue
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Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma
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73102
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(Address
of principal executive offices)
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(Zip
Code)
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(405) 270-1313
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(Registrant's
telephone number)
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Item
5.04
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Temporary
Suspension of Trading under Registrant’s Employee Benefit
Plans
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On
March 8, 2006, Kerr-McGee Corporation announced that a record date
of
March 20, 2006, and a distribution date of March 30, 2006, had been
set
for the spinoff of Tronox Incorporated, its majority-owned subsidiary.
To
complete the spinoff, participants in Kerr-McGee’s Savings Investment Plan
(SIP) will be unable to make exchanges, take loans, make withdrawals
and
receive distributions from the portion of their SIP account that
is
invested in Kerr-McGee shares beginning on March 29, 2006. The suspension
under the SIP is expected to end on April 10, 2006. A notice
to
directors and executive officers of a general trading suspension
during
the same period, dated March 9, 2006, is attached hereto as Exhibit
99.1.
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Item
9.01
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Financial
Statements and Exhibits
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(c)
Exhibits
99.1
Regulation BTR Trading Blackout
notice
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SIGNATURES
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Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant
has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned
hereunto duly authorized.
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KERR-MCGEE
CORPORATION
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By:
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(John
M. Rauh)
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John
M. Rauh
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Vice
President and Controller
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Dated:
March 9, 2006
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