PENSION PLANS AND OTHER POSTRETIREMENT BENEFITS (Other Postretirement Benefits) (Details) - Other Postretirement Benefit Plans	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2023	Dec. 31, 2022	Dec. 31, 2021
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Discount rate - benefit obligations	5.23%	5.57%
Discount rate - net periodic costs	5.57%	2.85%	2.38%
Health Care Cost Trend Rate Assumed for Next Year - benefit obligations	6.61%	6.79%
Health Care Cost Trend Rate Assumed for Next Year - net periodic costs	6.79%	6.50%	6.75%
Rate to which the cost trend rate is assumed to decline (the ultimate health care cost trend rate) - benefit obligations	5.00%	5.00%
Rate to which the cost trend rate is assumed to decline (the ultimate health care cost trend rate) - net periodic costs	5.00%	5.00%	5.00%
Defined Benefit Plan, Ultimate Health Care Cost Trend Rate to Calculate PBO, End of Year	2033	2033
Year that the Rate Reaches the Ultimate Health Care Cost Trend Rate	2033	2028	2028

Defined Benefit Plan, Health Care Cost Trend Rate Assumed To Calculate Net Periodic Benefit Cost, Next Fiscal Year

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Defined Benefit Plan, Ultimate Health Care Cost Trend Rate to Calculate PBO, End of Year

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Weighted average rate for present value of future retirement benefits cash flows, used to determine benefit obligation of defined benefit plan.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Topic 715
-SubTopic 20
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (k)(1)
-Publisher FASB
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Weighted average rate for present value of future retirement benefits cash flows, used to determine net periodic benefit cost of defined benefit plan.

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Assumed rate, for next fiscal year, based on annual change in cost of health care cost benefits used to measure expected cost of benefits covered by defined benefit postretirement plan. Factors include, but are not limited to, estimate of health care inflation, change in health care utilization or delivery pattern, technological advances, and change in health status of participant. Excludes factors for change in composition of plan population by age and dependency status.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Topic 715
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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
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-Publisher FASB
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Ultimate trend rate for health care cost for defined benefit postretirement plan.

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