EXHIBIT 10bb(i)


Termination of NYNEX Senior Management Incentive Award Deferral Plan, effective
December 31, 1997, with respect to active participants.

Effective December 31, 1997, the Human Resources Committee ("HRC") of the Board
of Directors of Bell Atlantic terminated benefit accruals for active
participants under the NYNEX Senior Management Incentive Award Deferral Plan
(the "Plan"), and authorized the Executive Vice President --  Human Resources of
Bell Atlantic, as plan administrator, to credit such accrued benefits of active
participants on that date to the respective individual deferred compensation
accounts for those individuals under the newly adopted Bell Atlantic Senior
Management Income Deferral Plan. Thereafter, the Plan will be administered
solely for the benefit of inactive participants who retired or otherwise
separated from service on or before December 31, 1997.