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The authors extend their earlier work on fractional powers of nonnegative operators on sequentially complete, locally convex spaces by establishing a spectral mapping theorem. A functional calculus is first developed that enables \(F(A)\) to be defined via integral formulas when \(A\) is a densely defined nonnegative operator and \(F\) is a suitably restricted function. This is then used to prove that the spectrum, \(\sigma(A^\alpha)\), of the fractional power \(A^\alpha\) is given by \[ \sigma(A^\alpha)= \{z^\alpha: z\in \sigma(A)\},\quad \text{Re }\alpha> 0. \] This result is also shown to hold for nonnegative operators which are not densely defined.