27694 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 97 / Friday, May 18, 2001 / Notices

APPENDIX—Continued

[Petitions instituted on 04/16/2001]

TA–W Subject firm

(petitioners) Location Date of petition Product(s)

39,055 ......... Newport Steel Corp. (CO.) ....................... Newport, KY ................ 04/06/2001 Steel Pipe.

39,056 ......... Peerless Pattern Works (Wkrs) ................ Portland, OR ............... 04/02/2001 Foundry Patterns.

39,057 ......... Kolb Lena Bresse Bleu (UFCW) .............. Watertown, WI ............ 04/06/2001 Goat’s Milk Cheese.

39,058 ......... Garden State Cutting Co. (Wkrs) ............. Passaic, NJ ................. 03/28/2001 Ladies’ Apparel.

39,059 ......... Ludlow Coated Products (Wkrs) ............... Adrian, MI .................... 04/02/2001 Laminatee Fiber Board.

39,060 ......... Ludlow Coated Products (Wkrs) ............... Adrian, MI .................... 04/02/2001 Laminated Fibre Board.

39,061 ......... SOLA Optical (Comp) ............................... Petaluma, CA .............. 03/30/2001 Ophthalmic Lens.

39,062 ......... Gateway Sportswear Corp. (UNITE) ........ Charleroi, PA ............... 04/02/2001 Sportswear Apparel.

39,063 ......... Grove U.S. LLC (Wkrs) ............................ Shady Grove, PA ........ 03/28/2001 Aerial Work Platforms.

39,064 ......... Minnesota Rubber Co. (IAM) .................... Minneapolis, MN ......... 04/05/2001 Rubber Gastets, Sealers.

39,065 ......... Mundy Industrial Contract (Comp) ........... Leland, NC .................. 04/05/2001 Yarn Filament, Staple Material.

39,066 ......... Boston Scientific (Comp) .......................... Maple Grove, MN ........ 03/30/2001 Diagnostic Catheters.

[FR Doc. 01–12561 Filed 5–17–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4510–30–M

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

[TA–W–38,396]

Philips Electronics North American

Corporation, Philips Display

Components Company Ottawa, OH;

Notice of Negative Determination

Regarding Application for

Reconsideration

By application of February 23, 2001,

the International Brotherhood of

Electrical Workers (IBEW), Local 1654,

requests 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 24,

2001, and was published in the Federal

Register on February 20, 2001 (66 FR

10916).

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 for workers at

Philips Electronics North America

Corporation, Philips Display

Components Company, Ottawa, Ohio,

was denied because criterion (3) of

Section 222 of the Trade Act of 1974, as

amended, was not met. The workers

were engaged in employment related to

yoke matching which is attaching a yoke

to the back of a television picture tube.

The investigation found that layoffs

occurred when the company shifted

yoke matching to Mexico. The workers

are separately identifiable by product

line. The yoke matching operation is not

imported. Furthermore, yoke matching

increased up until the shift to Mexico.

The petitioner provides a history of

cathode ray tube (CRT) production at

the Ottawa facility over the past 50

years and describes various operations

that the company is transferring abroad.

A shift of production to a foreign

location is not a criterion for worker

group eligibility. Increases of imports of

articles like or directly competitive with

those produced by the workers must

contribute importantly to sales or

production declines and worker

separations.

Workers engaged in yoke matching

were certified eligible, on January 24,

2001, to apply for North American Free

Trade Agreement-Transitional

Adjustment Assistance under NAFTA–

4336.

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. 01–12563 Filed 5–17–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4510–30–M

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

[Docket No. TA–W–38,325, TA–W–38,325A]

Posies, Inc., Rockport, ME; Posies,

Inc., Posies Showroom, Dallas, TX;

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 February 20, 2001,

applicable to workers of Posies, Inc.,

Rockport, Maine. The notice was

published in the Federal Register on

April 5, 2001 (66 FR 18118).

At the request of the State agency, the

Department reviewed the certification

for workers of the subject firm. New

information shows that worker

separations occurred at Posies’

Showroom, Dallas, Texas when the

company closed in August, 2000. The

Dallas, Texas location was the corporate

showroom, sales and marketing office

which supported the production of

children’s dresses at the subject firm’s

Rockport, Maine facility.

Based on these findings, the

Department is amending the

certification to include workers of

Posies, Inc., Posies Showroom, Dallas,

Texas.

The intent of the Department’s

certification is to include all workers of

Posies, Inc. who were adversely affected

by increased imports of children’s

dresses.

The amended notice applicable to

TA–W–38, 325 is hereby issued as

follows:

All workers of Posies, Inc., Rockport,

Maine (TA–W–38,325) and the Posies

Showroom, Dallas, Texas (TA–W–38,325A)