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CONTINGENT LIABILITIES AND OTHER MATTERS - Environmental Matters (Details) - Site investigation and remediation - site	Sep. 29, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017
Environmental Matters
Number of sites	28	28
Number of third-party disposal sites for which entity is potentially responsible	15
Number of active sites	10

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Represents the number of offsite, third-party disposal sites which have been active in the past few years.

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Represents the number of sites which have liabilities for site investigation and remediation.

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Represents the number of offsite, third-party disposal sites for which the entity is potentially responsible and have received notices of potential liability pursuant to various environmental laws.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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