77532 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 247 / Wednesday, December 24, 2014 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Investigations Regarding Eligibility To 

Apply for Worker Adjustment 

Assistance 

Petitions have been filed with the 

Secretary of Labor under Section 221 (a) 

of the Trade Act of 1974 (‘‘the Act’’) and 

are identified in the Appendix to this 

notice. Upon receipt of these petitions, 

the Director of the Office of Trade 

Adjustment Assistance, Employment 

and Training Administration, has 

instituted investigations pursuant to 

Section 221 (a) of the Act. 

The purpose of each of the 

investigations is to determine whether 

the workers are eligible to apply for 

adjustment assistance under Title II, 

Chapter 2, of the Act. The investigations 

will further relate, as appropriate, to the 

determination of the date on which total 

or partial separations began or 

threatened to begin and the subdivision 

of the firm involved. 

The petitioners or any other persons 

showing a substantial interest in the 

subject matter of the investigations may 

request a public hearing, provided such 

request is filed in writing with the 

Director, Office of Trade Adjustment 

Assistance, at the address shown below, 

not later than January 5, 2015. 

Interested persons are invited to 

submit written comments regarding the 

subject matter of the investigations to 

the Director, Office of Trade Adjustment 

Assistance, at the address shown below, 

not later than January 5, 2015. 

The petitions filed in this case are 

available for inspection at the Office of 

the Director, Office of Trade Adjustment 

Assistance, Employment and Training 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor, Room N–5428, 200 Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210. 

Signed at Washington, DC this 11th day of 

December 2014. 

Michael W. Jaffe, 

Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment 

Assistance. 

APPENDIX

[18 TAA petitions instituted between 12/1/14 and 12/5/14] 

TA–W Subject firm 

(petitioners) Location Date of institution 

Date of 

petition 

85679 ........................ Stuart Manufacturing LLC (Workers) ........ Central Falls, RI ........................................ 12/02/14 12/01/14 

85680 ........................ Dixie Aerospace (Company) ..................... Atlanta, GA ............................................... 12/02/14 12/01/14 

85681 ........................ Atmel Corporation (State/One-Stop) ........ Colorado Springs, CO .............................. 12/02/14 12/01/14 

85682 ........................ BEHR Process Corporation (Workers) ..... Chesterfield, MO ....................................... 12/02/14 12/01/14 

85683 ........................ Hamilton Sundstrand, United Technologies Corporation (Company).San Diego, CA .......................................... 12/03/14 12/02/14 

85684 ........................ Heritage Home (Workers) ......................... Belding, MS .............................................. 12/03/14 12/02/14 

85685 ........................ Merkle-Korff Industries (Company) ........... Darlington, WI ........................................... 12/04/14 12/03/14 

85686 ........................ SCHOTT North America Inc. (Company) Duryea, PA ............................................... 12/04/14 12/03/14 

85687 ........................ Moog Aircraft (Workers) ........................... Salt Lake City, UT .................................... 12/04/14 12/03/14 

85688 ........................ Beechcraft/Textron (State/One-Stop) ....... Wichita, KS ............................................... 12/04/14 12/03/14 

85689 ........................ Honeywell Aerospace (State/One-Stop) ... Moorestown, NJ ........................................ 12/04/14 12/03/14 

85690 ........................ Apex Tool Group, LLC (Company) ........... Garland, TX .............................................. 12/04/14 12/03/14 

85691 ........................ Covidien (State/One-Stop) ........................ North Haven, CT ....................................... 12/04/14 12/03/14 

85692 ........................ Honeywell (State/One-Stop) ..................... Canton, MA ............................................... 12/04/14 11/20/14 

85693 ........................ Green Creek Wood Products (State/OneStop).Port Angeles, WA ..................................... 12/05/14 12/03/14 

85694 ........................ Tyco Fire Protection Products (State/

One-Stop).

Westminster, MA ...................................... 12/05/14 12/04/14 

85695 ........................ ME Electmetal (State/One-Stop) .............. Duluth, MN ................................................ 12/05/14 12/04/14 

85696 ........................ Hewlett Packard (Workers) ....................... Omaha, NE ............................................... 12/05/14 11/13/14 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Notice of Determinations Regarding 

Eligibility To Apply for Worker 

Adjustment Assistance and Alternative 

Trade Adjustment Assistance 

In accordance with Section 223 of the 

Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 

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

herein presents summaries of 

determinations regarding eligibility to 

apply for trade adjustment assistance for 

workers (TA–W) number and alternative 

trade adjustment assistance (ATAA) by 

(TA–W) number issued during the 

period of December 1, 2014 through 

December 5, 2014. 

In order for an affirmative 

determination to be made for workers of 

a primary firm and a certification issued 

regarding eligibility to apply for worker 

adjustment assistance, each of the group 

eligibility requirements of Section 

222(a) of the Act must be met. 

I. Section (a)(2)(A) all of the following 

must be satisfied: 

A. A significant number or proportion 

of the workers in such workers’ firm, or 

an appropriate subdivision of the firm, 

have become totally or partially 

separated, or are threatened to become 

totally or partially separated; 

B. the sales or production, or both, of 

such firm or subdivision have decreased 

absolutely; and 

C. increased imports of articles like or 

directly competitive with articles 

produced by such firm or subdivision 

have contributed importantly to such 

workers’ separation or threat of 

separation and to the decline in sales or 

production of such firm or subdivision; 

or 

II. Section (a)(2)(B) both of the 

following must be satisfied: 

A. A significant number or proportion 

of the workers in such workers’ firm, or 

an appropriate subdivision of the firm, 

have become totally or partially 

separated, or are threatened to become 

totally or partially separated; 

B. there has been a shift in production 

by such workers’ firm or subdivision to 

a foreign country of articles like or 

directly competitive with articles which 

are produced by such firm or 

subdivision; and 

C. One of the following must be 

satisfied: 

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1. The country to which the workers’ 

firm has shifted production of the 

articles is a party to a free trade 

agreement with the United States; 

2. the country to which the workers’ 

firm has shifted production of the 

articles to a beneficiary country under 

the Andean Trade Preference Act, 

African Growth and Opportunity Act, or 

the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery 

Act; or 

3. there has been or is likely to be an 

increase in imports of articles that are 

like or directly competitive with articles 

which are or were produced by such 

firm or subdivision. 

Also, in order for an affirmative 

determination to be made for 

secondarily affected workers of a firm 

and a certification issued regarding 

eligibility to apply for worker 

adjustment assistance, each of the group 

eligibility requirements of Section 

222(b) of the Act must be met. 

(1) Significant number or proportion 

of the workers in the workers’ firm or 

an appropriate subdivision of the firm 

have become totally or partially 

separated, or are threatened to become 

totally or partially separated; 

(2) the workers’ firm (or subdivision) 

is a supplier or downstream producer to 

a firm (or subdivision) that employed a 

group of workers who received a 

certification of eligibility to apply for 

trade adjustment assistance benefits and 

such supply or production is related to 

the article that was the basis for such 

certification; and 

(3) either— 

(A) the workers’ firm is a supplier and 

the component parts it supplied for the 

firm (or subdivision) described in 

paragraph (2) accounted for at least 20 

percent of the production or sales of the 

workers’ firm; or 

(B) a loss or business by the workers’ 

firm with the firm (or subdivision) 

described in paragraph (2) contributed 

importantly to the workers’ separation 

or threat of separation. 

In order for the Division of Trade 

Adjustment Assistance to issue a 

certification of eligibility to apply for 

Alternative Trade Adjustment 

Assistance (ATAA) for older workers, 

the group eligibility requirements of 

Section 246(a)(3)(A)(ii) of the Trade Act 

must be met. 

1. Whether a significant number of 

workers in the workers’ firm are 50 

years of age or older. 

2. Whether the workers in the 

workers’ firm possess skills that are not 

easily transferable. 

3. The competitive conditions within 

the workers’ industry (i.e., conditions 

within the industry are adverse). 

Affirmative Determinations for Worker 

Adjustment Assistance 

The following certifications have been 

issued. The date following the company 

name and location of each 

determination references the impact 

date for all workers of such 

determination. 

None. 

Affirmative Determinations for Worker 

Adjustment Assistance and Alternative 

Trade Adjustment Assistance 

The following certifications have been 

issued. The date following the company 

name and location of each 

determination references the impact 

date for all workers of such 

determination. 

The following certifications have been 

issued. The requirements of Section 

222(a)(2)(A) (increased imports) and 

Section 246(a)(3)(A)(ii) of the Trade Act 

have been met. 

85,489, Arvato Entertainment LLC, 

Weaverville, North Carolina. 

August 17, 2013. 

85,616, Luminus Devices, Inc., Billerica, 

Massachusetts. October 18, 2014. 

85,618, BSN Medical Inc., Rutherford 

College, North Carolina. October 23, 

2013. 

85,622, AFB International, O’Fallon, 

Missouri. October 30, 2013. 

85,647, Fabrene LLC, Clackamas, 

Oregon. November 14, 2013. 

85,657, Swisher International, Inc., 

Jacksonville, Florida. November 10, 

2014. 

85,660, Peavey Electronics Corporation, 

Meridian, Mississippi. November 

18, 2013. 

Negative Determinations for Alternative 

Trade Adjustment Assistance 

In the following cases, it has been 

determined that the requirements of 

246(a)(3)(A)(ii) have not been met for 

the reasons specified. 

None. 

Negative Determinations for Worker 

Adjustment Assistance and Alternative 

Trade Adjustment Assistance 

In the following cases, the 

investigation revealed that the eligibility 

criteria for worker adjustment assistance 

have not been met for the reasons 

specified. 

Because the workers of the firm are 

not eligible to apply for TAA, the 

workers cannot be certified eligible for 

ATAA. 

The investigation revealed that 

criteria (a)(2)(A)(I.C.) (increased 

imports) and (a)(2)(B)(II.B.) (shift in 

production to a foreign country) have 

not been met. 

85,583, Metalfab Tool & Machine, Inc., 

Mio, Michigan. 

85,659, IDEW Technologies, Inc., 

Webster, Texas. 

The workers’ firm does not produce 

an article as required for certification 

under Section 222 of the Trade Act of 

1974. 

85,601, Pitney Bowes Inc., Troy, New 

York. 

85,612, CA Technologies, Plano, Texas. 

85,637, Cincinnati Bell Telephone 

Company LLC, Norwood, Ohio. 

Determinations Terminating 

Investigations of Petitions for Worker 

Adjustment Assistance 

After notice of the petitions was 

published in the Federal Register and 

on the Department’s Web site, as 

required by Section 221 of the Act (19 

U.S.C. 2271), the Department initiated 

investigations of these petitions. 

The following determinations 

terminating investigations were issued 

because the petitioning groups of 

workers are covered by active 

certifications. Consequently, further 

investigation in these cases would serve 

no purpose since the petitioning group 

of workers cannot be covered by more 

than one certification at a time. 

85,621, Advanced Technology 

Innovation Corporation, Wichita, 

Kansas. 

85,638, Cardinal Health, Albuquerque, 

New Mexico. 

I hereby certify that the aforementioned 

determinations were issued during the period 

of December 1, 2014 through December 5, 

2014. These determinations are available on 

the Department’s Web site www.tradeact/taa/ 

taa_search_form.cfm under the searchable 

listing of determinations or by calling the 

Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance toll 

free at 888–365–6822. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 11th day of 

December 2014. 

Michael W. Jaffe, 

Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment 

Assistance. 

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