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Employee Benefit Plans | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2014
Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract] |
Employee Benefit Plans | Employee Benefit Plans We sponsor two union pension plans for certain union employees and a pension plan primarily for salaried employees, a postretirement benefit plan for selected employees and a defined contribution plan. The following tables present our consolidated net periodic benefit costs related to the pension and postretirement benefit plans for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2013 and 2014 (in thousands):
| Three Months Ended |  | Three Months Ended
| September 30, 2013 |  | September 30, 2014
| Pension Benefits |  | Other Post- Retirement Benefits |  | Pension Benefits |  | Other Post- Retirement Benefits
Components of net periodic benefit costs: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Service cost | $ | 3,476 |  |  | $ | 72 |  |  | $ | 3,348 |  |  | $ | 57 |
Interest cost | 1,342 |  |  | 103 |  |  | 1,332 |  |  | 126 |
Expected return on plan assets | (1,556 | ) |  | — |  |  | (1,588 | ) |  | — |
Amortization of prior service cost (credit)(1) | 76 |  |  | (928 | ) |  | — |  |  | (928 | )
Amortization of actuarial loss(1) | 1,084 |  |  | 259 |  |  | 756 |  |  | 229 |
Settlement cost(1) | — |  |  | — |  |  | 30 |  |  | — |
Net periodic benefit cost (credit) | $ | 4,422 |  |  | $ | (494 | ) |  | $ | 3,878 |  |  | $ | (516 | )
| Nine Months Ended |  | Nine Months Ended
| September 30, 2013 |  | September 30, 2014
| Pension Benefits |  | Other Post- Retirement Benefits |  | Pension Benefits |  | Other Post- Retirement Benefits
Components of net periodic benefit costs: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Service cost | $ | 10,426 |  |  | $ | 216 |  |  | $ | 10,052 |  |  | $ | 171 |
Interest cost | 4,026 |  |  | 309 |  |  | 5,021 |  |  | 379 |
Expected return on plan assets | (4,671 | ) |  | — |  |  | (4,775 | ) |  | — |
Amortization of prior service cost (credit)(1) | 230 |  |  | (2,784 | ) |  | 33 |  |  | (2,784 | )
Amortization of actuarial loss(1) | 3,251 |  |  | 776 |  |  | 2,315 |  |  | 686 |
Settlement cost(1) | — |  |  | — |  |  | 1,599 |  |  | — |
Net periodic benefit cost (credit) | $ | 13,262 |  |  | $ | (1,483 | ) |  | $ | 14,245 |  |  | $ | (1,548 | )
(1) These amounts are included in our Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income and cumulatively in our Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows as changes in employee benefit plan assets and benefit obligations. Contributions estimated to be paid into the plans in 2014 are $21.1 million and $0.7 million for the pension and postretirement benefit plans, respectively.

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