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The petitioner states that the workers

at the Structural Beams plant should be

eligible to apply for the program

benefits because the Structural Beams

plant and the parent company, Gulf

States Steel, were on in the same. They

shared the same Board of Directors,

payroll, on-site medical facilities,

workers compensation, and health

insurance. The petitioner adds that

Alabama Structural Beams was part of

Gulf States Steel in every sense except

that the pay scale and employee union

contract was different. When Gulf States

Steel closed, so too did the subject firm

plant. The petitioner states that the

Structural Beam plan relied on the

parent company for the raw material to

produce the I-beams. The I-beams were

sold mainly to manufacturers of mobile

homes.

The source of the raw material to

produce the I-beams is irrelevant in this

case. Workers of the Alabama Structural

Beams plant could be certified only if

they supplied the I-beams to Gulf States

Steel (whose workers were certified

eligible to apply for TAA).

Conclusion

After review of the application and

investigative findings, I conclude that

there has been no error or

misinterpretation of the law or of the

facts which would justify

reconsideration of the Department of

Labor’s prior decision. Accordingly, the

application is denied.

Signed at Washington, DC, this 30th day of

April 2001.

Linda A. Poole,

Certifying Officer, Division of Trade

Adjustment Assistance.

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

[TA–W–38,507]

Dresser-Wayne Division (Halliburton)

Salisbury, MD; Notice of Negative

Determination Regarding Application

for Reconsideration

By Application of February 8, 2001,

the International Union, United

Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural

Implement Workers of America (UAW),

Local 354, request administrative

reconsideration of the Department’s

negative determination regarding

eligibility for workers and former

workers of the subject firm to apply for

Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA).

The denial notice was signed on January

17, 2001, and published in the Federal

Register on February 8, 2001 (66 FR

9599).

Pursuant to 29 CFR 90.18(c)

reconsideration may be granted under

the following circumstances:

(1) If it appears on the basis of facts not

previously considered that the determination

complained of was erroneous;

(2) If it appears that the determination

complained of was based on a mistake in the

determination of facts not previously

considered; or

(3) If in the opinion of the Certifying

Officer, a mis-interpretation of facts or of the

law justified reconsideration of the decision.

The TAA petition, filed on behalf of

workers producing retail fuel dispensers

at Dresser-Wayne Division (Halliburton)

in Salisbury, Maryland, was denied

because the group eligibility

requirement of Section 222(2) of the

Trade Act of 1974, as amended, was not

met. Sales and production of articles

produced at the plant increased from

1999 to 2000.

The petitioner provided a copy of an

e-mail from a company official at

Dresser-Wayne to the President of UAW,

Local 354, indicating that jobs were lost

at the plant because some of the work

at the subject firm plant was being sent

to Brazil.

The transfer of work, or shift of

production, is not a basis for worker

group certification under the worker

adjustment assistance provisions of

Section 222 of the Trade Act of 1974.

Conclusion

After review of the application and

investigative findings, I conclude that

there has been no error or

misinterpretation of the law or of the

facts which would justify

reconsideration of the Department of

Labor’s prior decisions. Accordingly,

the application is denied.

Signed at Washington, DC, this 30th day of

April, 2001.

Linda G. Poole,

Certifying Officer, Division of Trade

Adjustment Assistance.

[FR Doc. 01–12565 Filed 5–17–01; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

[TA–W–37,964, TA–W–37,964A]

Hampton Industries, Kinston, NC;

Hampton Industries Distribution

Center, Snow Hill, NC; Amended

Certification Regarding Eligibility To

Apply for Worker Adjustment

Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the

Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2273) the

Department of Labor issued a Notice of

Certification Regarding Eligibility to

Apply for Worker Adjustment

Assistance on October 11, 2000,

applicable to workers of Hampton

Industries, Kinston, North Carolina. The

notice was published in the Federal

Register on November 1, 2000 (65 FR

65330).

At the request of the Company, the

Department reviewed the certification

for workers of the subject firm. The

workers were engaged in the production

of Men’s and boys’ woven and knit

shirts. New information shows that

worker separations have occurred at the

subject firms’ Distribution Center

located in Snow Hill, North Carolina.

The Snow Hill, North Carolina location

provided distribution services for

Hampton Industries’ production

facilities including Kinston, North

Carolina.

Accordingly, the Department is

amending the certification to cover the

workers of Hampton Industries,

Distribution Center, Snow Hill, North

Carolina.

The intent of the Department’s

certification is to include all workers of

Hampton Industries who were adversely

affected by increased imports of men’s

and boys’ woven and knit shirts.

The amended notice applicable to

TA–W–37,964 is hereby issued as

follows:

All workers of Hampton Industries,

Kinston, North Carolina (TA–W–37,964) and

Distribution Center, Snow Hill, North

Carolina (TA–W–37,964A) who became

totally or partially separated from

employment on or after July 20, 1999,

through October 11, 2002, are eligible to

apply for adjustment assistance under

Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.

Signed at Washington, DC, this 30th day of

April, 2001.

Linda G. Poole,

Certifying Officer, Division of Trade

Adjustment Assistance.

[FR Doc. 01–12566 Filed 5–17–01; 8:45 am]

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