9.	PENSION PLAN

The Company sponsors a noncontributory defined benefit pension plan covering some of the Company’s employees who were employed by the Company prior to 1995. Benefits are provided based on employees’ years of service and earnings. This plan was frozen on December 31, 1994. The Company did not make any contributions to the pension plan for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015, and paid $0.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2014. The net periodic benefit cost was $0.5 million and less than $0.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014, respectively. The net periodic benefit cost was $0.6 million and $0.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014, respectively.