Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 119 / Monday, June 22, 1998 / Notices 33957

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

[NAFTA–01702]

B.E.L.-Tronics Limited a/k/a BEL

Tronics LLC, Covington, GA;

Amendment Certification Regarding

Eligibility To Apply for NAFTATransitional Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 250(a),

Subchapter D, Chapter 2, Title II, of the

Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19

U.S.C. 2273), the Department of Labor

issued a Certification of Eligibility to

Apply for NAFTA-Transitional

Adjustment Assistance on July 25, 1997,

applicable to workers of B.E.L.-Tronics

Limited located in Covington, Georgia.

The notice was published in the Federal

Register on September 4, 1997 (62 FR

46775).

At the request of the State agency, the

Department reviewed the certification

for workers of the subject firm engaged

in employment related to the

production of swingmates (circuit board

assemblies). New information provided

by the State shows that on January 1,

1998, the subject firm began operating

under the name BEL-Tronics LLC.

Consequently, some of the workers

separated from employment at the

Covington facility have had their wages

reported under the unemployment

insurance (UI) tax account for BELTronics LLC.

The intent of the Department’s

certification is to include all workers of

the B.E.L.-Tronics Limited, Covington,

Georgia plant adversely affected by

increased imports from Canada or

Mexico. Accordingly, the Department is

amending the certification to reflect that

B.E.L.-Tronics Limited is also known as

BEL-Tronics LLC.

The amended notice applicable to

NAFTA–01702 is hereby issued as

follows:

All workers of B.E.L.-Tronics Limited, also

known as BEL-Tronics LLC, Covington,

Georgia, who became totally or partially

separated from employment on or after June

10, 1996 through July 25, 1999, are eligible

to apply for NAFTA–TAA under Section 250

of the Trade Act of 1974.

Signed at Washington, D.C. this 10th day

of June 1998.

Grant D. Beale,

Acting Director, Office of Trade Adjustment

Assistance.

[FR Doc. 98–16559 Filed 6–19–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4510–30–M

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

[TA–W–34,188 and NAFTA–02140]

Badger Paper Mills, Incorporated,

Peshtigo, WI; Notice of Revised

Determination on Reconsideration

On March 2, 1998, the Department

issued Negative Determinations

Regarding Eligibility to apply for TAA

and NAFTA–TAA, applicable to

workers and former workers of Badger

Paper Mills, Incorporated located in

Peshtigo, Wisconsin. The notices were

published in the Federal Register on

March 23, 1998 (63 FR 13878) and (63

FR 13879), respectively.

By letter of March 27, 1998, the

petitioners requested administrative

reconsideration regarding the

Department’s denial of TAA and

NAFTA–TAA for workers of the subject

firm. Workers at Badger Paper Mills,

Incorporated are engaged in

employment related to the production of

commercial business paper and twisting

papers for candies and gum. The

petitioners claim that the investigations

were lacking in substance in that the

Department did not examine paper

grade, pricing or competition. Price and

marketing practices by domestic

competitors would not form the basis

for a worker group certification under

the Trade Act of 1974, as amended.

One of the findings in the original

TAA and NAFTA–TAA negative

determinations for workers of Badger

Paper Mills, Incorporated was that the

subject firm exported a majority of their

products, and thus, were not import

impacted. The petitioners requesting

reconsideration, however, presented

evidence that some of the commercial

paper customers decreasing purchases

were domestic customers.

On reconsideration, the Department

obtained additional information

regarding the output at the Peshtigo

plant and the major declining domestic

customers. The primary output at

Badger Paper Mills in 1996 and 1997

was commercial business paper.

On reconsideration, the Department

conducted a survey of the domestic

customers reducing purchases of

commercial business paper from the

subject firm. The customers reported

continued or increasing reliance on

import purchases of commercial

business paper from Mexico or Canada.

Other findings on reconsideration

show that the workers at the subject

firm are interchangeable among the

product lines. Accordingly, the

Department recognizes that the worker

separations resulting from increased

imports of commercial business paper

indirectly affected the workers

producing of twisting papers for candies

and gum. Workers at Badger Paper

Mills, Incorporated that formerly

produced pulp at the Peshtigo location

are covered under TA–W–32,366 until

the expiration date of June 17, 1998, and

are therefore, excluded from this

finding.

Conclusion

After careful review of the additional

facts obtained on reconsideration, I

conclude there were increased imports

from foreign sources, including Mexico

or Canada, of articles like or directly

competitive with those produced by the

subject firm. In accordance with the

provisions of the Trade Act, I make the

following certification:

All workers of Badger Paper Mills,

Incorporated, Peshtigo, Wisconsin engaged in

employment related to the production of

commercial business paper and twisting

papers for candies and gum who became

totally or partially separated from

employment on or after January 19, 1997

through two years from the issuance of this

revised determination are eligible to apply

for adjustment assistance under Section 223

of the Trade Act of 1974; and

All workers of Badger Paper Mills,

Incorporated, Peshtigo, Wisconsin engaged in

employment related to the production of

commercial business paper and twisting

papers for candies and gum who became

totally or partially separated from

employment on or after January 16, 1997

through two years from the issuance of this

revised determination are eligible to apply

for NAFTA–TAA under Section 250 of the

Trade Act of 1974.

Signed in Washington, DC this 3rd day of

June 1998.

Grant D. Beale,

Acting Director, Office of Trade Adjustment

Assistance.

[FR Doc. 98–16549 Filed 6–19–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4510–30–M

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

Notice of Determinations Regarding

Eligibility To Apply for Worker

Adjustment Assistance and NAFTA

Transitional Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the

Trade Act of 1974, as amended, the

Department of Labor herein presents

summaries of determinations regarding

eligibility to apply for trade adjustment

assistance for workers (TA–W) issued

during the period of June, 1998.