January 13, 2010

CHICAGO (January 14, 2010) - The Van Kampen Municipal Closed-End Funds¹ ("Funds") listed below hereby announce the dates for the partial redemptions of their respective preferred shares. The announced partial redemptions total $127,250,000 million of the total outstanding preferred shares issued by the Funds.

With respect to this partial redemption, The Depository Trust Company (DTC), the securities' holder of record, will determine how the partial series redemptions will be allocated among each participant broker-dealer account. Each participant broker-dealer, as nominee for underlying beneficial owners (street name shareholders), in turn will determine how redeemed shares are to be allocated among its underlying beneficial owners. The procedures used by various broker-dealers to allocate redeemed shares among beneficial owners may differ from each other as well as from the procedures used by DTC.

Redemption Schedule

Van Kampen Asset Management,¹ the Funds’ investment adviser, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Van Kampen Investments Inc. (“Van Kampen”). Van Kampen is one of the nation’s largest investment management companies, with more than $103 billion in assets under management or supervision as of March 31, 2009. With roots in money management dating back to 1927, Van Kampen has helped nearly four generations of investors achieve their financial goals.

¹ In October 2009, Invesco entered into an agreement to acquire Morgan Stanley's retail asset management business, operating under both the Van Kampen and Morgan Stanley brands, including the Van Kampen intermediary, separately managed account and unit trust businesses. For Van Kampen, this includes substantially all open and closed-end mutual funds, unit trusts, retail separately managed accounts and certain subadvisory and insurance trust products.

Therefore, on the close of the transaction on or about June 1, 2010, Van Kampen Funds Inc. will become a wholly owned, indirect subsidiary of Invesco Ltd. Van Kampen unit investment trusts will be distributed by the sponsor, Van Kampen Funds Inc., and broker dealers including Invesco Distributors, Inc., also a wholly owned, indirect subsidiary of Invesco Ltd.