Employee Benefit Plans

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2011

Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]

Employee Benefit Plans

EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS

Pension Plans

We sponsor a number of defined benefit pension plans. The following table summarizes the net periodic benefit costs of our pension plans for the periods presented (in millions):

	Third Quarter						First Nine Months
	2011			2010			2011			2010
Components of net periodic benefit costs:
Service cost	$	13		$	10		$	37		$	31
Interest cost	14			13			42			37
Expected return on plan assets	(19		)	(16		)	(56		)	(47		)
Amortization of net prior service cost	—			—			1			1
Amortization of actuarial loss	2			2			6			6
Net periodic benefit cost	10			9			30			28
Other	—			—			3			—
Total costs	$	10		$	9		$	33		$	28

Contributions

Contributions to our pension plans totaled $41 million and $63 million during the first nine months of 2011 and 2010, respectively. The following table summarizes our projected contributions for the full year ending December 31, 2011, as well as actual contributions for the year ended December 31, 2010 (in millions):

	Projected(A) 2011		Actual(A) 2010
Total pension contributions	$	58	$	116

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^(A)  These amounts represent only company-paid contributions.