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EMPLOYEE BENEFITS (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2018
Retirement Benefits [Abstract] |
Schedule of net benefit costs | The following tables show the components of net periodic pension and OPEB costs for our benefit plans.
|  | Pension Costs
|  | Three Months Ended September 30 |  | Nine Months Ended September 30
(in millions) |  | 2018 |  | 2017 |  | 2018 |  | 2017
Service cost |  | $ | 11.9 |  |  | $ | 11.1 |  |  | $ | 35.7 |  |  | $ | 33.2 |
Interest cost |  | 28.5 |  |  | 30.3 |  |  | 85.5 |  |  | 91.7 |
Expected return on plan assets |  | (49.2 | ) |  | (48.8 | ) |  | (147.6 | ) |  | (146.9 | )
Loss on plan settlement |  | 0.4 |  |  | 2.9 |  |  | 1.1 |  |  | 8.2 |
Amortization of prior service cost |  | 0.7 |  |  | 0.7 |  |  | 2.0 |  |  | 2.2 |
Amortization of net actuarial loss |  | 23.6 |  |  | 21.5 |  |  | 70.6 |  |  | 64.5 |
Net periodic benefit cost |  | $ | 15.9 |  |  | $ | 17.7 |  |  | $ | 47.3 |  |  | $ | 52.9 |
|  | OPEB Costs
|  | Three Months Ended September 30 |  | Nine Months Ended September 30
(in millions) |  | 2018 |  | 2017 |  | 2018 |  | 2017
Service cost |  | $ | 5.9 |  |  | $ | 6.0 |  |  | $ | 17.7 |  |  | $ | 17.9 |
Interest cost |  | 7.5 |  |  | 8.4 |  |  | 22.4 |  |  | 25.3 |
Expected return on plan assets |  | (14.9 | ) |  | (13.6 | ) |  | (44.6 | ) |  | (40.9 | )
Amortization of prior service credit |  | (3.8 | ) |  | (2.8 | ) |  | (11.5 | ) |  | (8.4 | )
Amortization of net actuarial loss |  | 0.3 |  |  | 0.7 |  |  | 0.8 |  |  | 2.3 |
Net periodic benefit credit |  | $ | (5.0 | ) |  | $ | (1.3 | ) |  | $ | (15.2 | ) |  | $ | (3.8 | )
Schedule of non-service components | The following table shows the non-service credit components of net benefit costs:
|  | Three Months Ended September 30 |  | Nine Months Ended September 30
(in millions) |  | 2018 |  | 2017 |  | 2018 |  | 2017
Non-service credit components |  | $ | (7.3 | ) |  | $ | (1.4 | ) |  | $ | (19.8 | ) |  | $ | (4.0 | )

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