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EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS (Tables)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017
Defined Benefit Plans and Other Postretirement Benefit Plans Disclosures [Abstract]  
Schedule of Components of Net Periodic Benefit Cost
The net pension and postretirement benefit costs that have been recorded are shown in the following table:
 
Pension
 
Postretirement
 
Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
2017
 
2016
 
2017
 
2016
Components of Net Periodic Benefit Cost
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Service cost

 

$327

 

$13

 

$2

Interest cost
815

 
869

 
2

 
12

Expected return on plan assets (a)
(945
)
 
(1,008
)
 

 

Amortization of losses (gains)
116

 
629

 

 
(12
)
Net periodic benefit (gain) cost

($14
)
 

$817

 

$15

 

$2

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
(a)
The weighted-average expected long-term rate of return on plan assets used in computing 2017 net periodic benefit cost for pension benefits is 7.2 percent.