Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 27 / Thursday, February 8, 2001 / Notices 9605

APPENDIX

[Petitions instituted on 01/16/2001]

TA–W Subject firm (petitioners) Location Date of

petition Product(s)

38,531 .......... Owens-BriGam Medical Co (Comp) ............ Newland, NC ............... 12/29/2000 Disposable Anesthesia Supplies.

38,532 .......... UPG Portland (Comp) ................................. Hillsboro, OR ............... 12/20/2000 Telephone Handsets.

38,533 .......... Spray Cotton Mills (Wrks) ........................... Eden, NC .................... 12/22/2000 Cotton Yarn.

38,534 .......... Hedstrom Lumber Co (Wrks) ...................... Two Harbors, MN ........ 12/26/2000 Dimentional Lumber.

38,535 .......... MelPack, Inc. (Comp) .................................. Mullins, SC .................. 12/27/2000 Corrugated Light Bulb Boxes.

38,536 .......... Crawford Furniture Mfg (Wrks) .................... New Bethlehem, PA .... 12/27/2000 Bed Room, Dining Room Furniture.

38,537 .......... Sharp Image Energy (Comp) ...................... Big Spring, TX ............. 01/05/2001 Oilfield Drilling.

38,538 .......... Southern Oregon Log (WCIW) .................... Roseburg, OR ............. 01/04/2001 Log—Scaling.

38,539 .......... Imperial Spreckels Corp. (Wrks) ................. Tracy, CA .................... 12/19/2000 Sugar—Granulated, Powdered.

38,540 .......... New York Air Brake (IAMAW) ..................... Watertown, NY ............ 12/30/2000 Train Machined Components.

38,541 .......... Ametek, US Gauge Div. (Comp) ................. Bartow, FL ................... 12/21/2000 Compressed Gas Gauges.

38,542 .......... Sweetheart Cup Co (Comp) ........................ Springfield, MO ........... 12/19/2000 Paper Cups.

38,543 .......... Hercules, Inc. (Comp) ................................. Parlin, NJ .................... 01/02/2001 Nitrocellulose.

38,544 .......... Bausch and Lomb (Comp) .......................... Sarasota, FL ............... 12/27/2000 Toric Contact Lenses.

38,545 .......... Sappi Fine Paper NA (PACE) ..................... Muskegon, MI ............. 12/20/2000 Coated Paper.

38,546 .......... Tower Electronics (Wrks) ............................ Fridley, MN .................. 12/21/2000 Custom Power Supplies.

38,547 .......... Georgia-Pacific (IBT) ................................... Grand Rapids, MI ........ 01/05/2001 Gypsum Wall Board.

38,548 .......... Timberland Logging (Comp) ....................... Ashland, OR ................ 12/19/2000 Lumber.

38,549 .......... Louisiana Pacific Corp (Comp) ................... Oroville, CA ................. 12/15/2000 Hardboard.

38,550 .......... Pottstown Precision (UAW) ......................... Stowe, PA ................... 01/09/2001 Transmission Parts.

38,551 .......... Nova Bus, Plant #3 (Wrks) ......................... Roswell, NM ................ 01/04/2001 Components—Transit Buses.

38,552 .......... North Star Steel-Kentucky (USWA) ............ Calvert City, KY ........... 12/29/2000 Steel Channels, Angles, Flats, Plates.

38,553 .......... Ingersoll Milling Machine (Wrks) ................. Rockford, IL ................. 12/18/2000 Engine Transfer Lines.

38,554 .......... Lego Systems, Inc. (Comp) ........................ Enfield, CT .................. 01/04/2001 Legos.

38,555 .......... Tee Jays (Wrks) .......................................... Florence, AL ................ 01/03/2001 T-Shirts.

38,556 .......... Con-Vey Keystone (USWA) ........................ Roseburg, OR ............. 01/02/2001 Material Handling Equipment.

38,557 .......... Southern Webbing Mills (Wrks) .................. Greensboro, NC .......... 12/27/2000 Elastic for Garments.

38,558 .......... Clark Metal Products Co (UAW) ................. Marion, OH .................. 12/19/2001 Metal Hardware.

38,559 .......... Spreckels Sugar Co (UFCW) ...................... Woodland, CA ............. 01/02/2001 Sugar.

38,560 .......... Bayer Corp (USWA) .................................... Elkhart, IN ................... 01/05/2001 Alka Seltzer and Alka Seltzer Plus.

[FR Doc. 01–3300 Filed 2–7–01; 8:45am]

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

[TA–W–37,593, 593A, 593B, 593C, 593D,

593E]

Pennzoil-Quaker State Company,

Rouseville, PA; Oil City, PA; Reno, PA;

Roosevelt, UT; Deerfield, OH; Rock

Hill, SC; Notice of Negative

Determination on Reconsideration

By application of August 8, 2000, the

petitioner, requested administrative

reconsideration of the Department’s

negative determination regarding

eligibility to apply for Trade Adjustment

Assistance (TAA), applicable to workers

and former workers of the subject firm.

The denial notice was signed on July 25,

2000 and published in the Federal

Register on August 25, 2000 (65 FR

51848).

The Department initially denied TAA

to workers of Pennzoil-Quaker State

Company producing refined petroleum

products because the ‘‘contributed

importantly’’ group eligibility

requirement of Section 222(3) of the

Trade Act of 1974, as amended, was not

met. The denial was based on criterion

(3) not being met. Aggregate statistics

and customer responses indicated that

importation of refined petroleum

products like and directly competitive

with those produced by the subject firm

were not major contributing factors to

the layoffs at the subject plant.

The petitioners filing the application

asserted the following:

(a) That the Rouseville refinery lost

their ‘‘tote’’ business to eastern

Canadian distribution centers.

(b) In the months preceding the sale

of the Rouseville facility, a lot of the

neutrals they blended into motor oils

essentially came from Canada,

Venezuela and South America, thereby

eroding the company’s competitiveness.

(c) Crude oil needs to be over $20 a

barrel to be profitable for crude oil

producers; the low price of crude was

the reason for the layoffs at PennzoilQuaker State Company.

(d) The flooding of the world market

with cheap was products by both the

Chinese and Japanese added to the

demise at the Rouseville facility.

On reconsideration, the Department

requested that the Pennzoil-Quaker City

State Company provide additional

information concerning the factors

addressed by the application.

Additional information provided by

the company indicated that during April

2000, the Pennzoil-Quaker State

Company sold a portion of the

Rouseville refinery and earlier in the

year the company discontinued

operating the balance of the refinery. As

a result of this sale/discontinuance of

the refinery operations the Rouseville

Packaging plant was discontinued and

transferred to other domestic packaging

plants. The workers in the ‘‘tote’’

business filled the totes with lubricants

and shipped them to Canada. The empty

totes would then be shipped back to the

Rouseville to be refilled and the cycle

would begin again. Sometime during

1997 and 1998 the Canadian customer

that was receiving the totes began

receiving the finished lubricant product

via semi-truck. The customer then filled

their own totes and retained them in

Canada. The business of filling the totes

is a service and therefore those workers

could only be considered for eligibility

if the workers producing the lubricants

at the subject firm were certified eligible

for TAA.

In response to factors (b) and (c)

depicted above, neutrals and crude oil

are raw materials in the refinery process

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and even if they were imported, do not

meet criteria (3) for eligibility. The

product imported must be a product

that is produced at the subject firm to

be considered for import impact.

The flooding of world markets with

cheap wax is not a factor in the layoff

at the subject plant. Waxes accounted

for only a small percentage of output at

the plant. Wax sales and production at

the subject plant increased up to the

sale of the wax operation, therefore

imports were not an important

contributing factor to the layoffs at the

subject plant.

Conclusion

After reconsideration, I affirm the

original notice of negative

determination of eligibility to apply for

worker adjustment assistance for

workers and former workers of

Pennzoil-Quaker State Company,

Rouseville, Oil City, and Reno,

Pennsylvania, Roosevelt, Utah,

Deerfield, Ohio, and Rock Hill, South

Carolina.

Signed at Washington, D.C., this 25th day

of January 2001.

Linda G. Poole,

Certifying Officer, Division of Trade

Adjustment Assistance.

[FR Doc. 01–3297 Filed 2–7–01; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

[TA–W–35,361]

The Trane Company, Tyler, 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

Certification of Eligibility to Apply for

Worker Adjustment Assistance on

January 19, 1999, applicable to workers

of The Trane Company, a division of

American Standard, Incorporated, Tyler,

Texas. The notice was published in the

Federal Register on January 29, 1999

(64 FR 4712).

At the request of the State agency, the

Department reviewed the certification

for workers of the subject firm. New

information shows that some employees

of The Trane Company, a division of

American Standard, Incorporated, Tyler,

Texas were leased from Remedy

Intelligent Staffing, Incorporated, Tyler,

Texas to produce single cylinder

reciprocating compressors for air

conditioning units at the Tyler, Texas

facility. Information also show that

workers separated from employment at

the subject firm had their wages

reported under a separate

unemployment insurance (UI) tax

account for Remedy Intelligent Staffing,

Incorporated.

Based on these findings, the

Department is amending the

certification to include workers at

Remedy Intelligent Staffing,

Incorporated, Tyler, Texas leased to The

Trane Company, a division of American

Standard, Incorporated, Tyler, Texas.

The amended notice applicable to

TA–W–35,361 is hereby issued as

follows:

All workers at The Trane Company, a

division of American Standard, Incorporated,

Tyler, Texas and leased workers of Remedy

Intelligent Staffing, Incorporated, Tyler,

Texas who were engaged in employment

related to the production of single cylinder

reciprocating compressors for air

conditioning units for The Trane Company,

a division of American Standard,

Incorporated, Tyler, Texas who became

totally or partially separated from

employment on or after December 1, 1997

through January 19, 2001 are eligible to apply

for adjustment assistance under Section 223

of the Trade Act of 1974.

Signed at Washington, DC this 17th day of

January 2001.

Linda G. Poole,

Certifying Officer, Division of Trade

Adjustment Assistance.

[FR Doc. 01–3292 Filed 2–7–01; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

[NAFTA–4353]

Centec Roll Corp., Bethlehem, PA;

Notice of Termination of Investigation

Pursuant to Section 221 of the Trade

Act of 1974, an investigation was

initiated on December 4, 2000, in

response to a worker petition which was

filed on behalf of workers at Centec Roll

Corporation, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

The petitioner has requested that the

petition be withdrawn. Consequently

further investigation in this case would

serve no purpose, and the investigation

has been terminated.

Signed in Washington, DC this 10th day of

January, 2001.

Linda G. Poole,

Certifying Officer, Division of Trade

Adjustment Assistance.

[FR Doc. 01–3288 Filed 2–7–01; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

[NAFTA–4393]

Eel River Sawmills, Inc., Fortuna, CA;

Notice of Termination of Investigation

Pursuant to Title V of the North

American Free Trade Agreement

Implementation Act (P.L. 103–182)

concerning transitional adjustment

assistance (NAFTA–TAA), an

investigation was initiated on December

14, 2000 in response to a petition which

was filed by the company on behalf of

workers at Eel River Sawmills, Inc.,

Fortuna, California.

The company has requested that the

petition be withdrawn. Consequently,

further investigation in this case would

serve no purpose, and the investigation

has been terminated.

Signed in Washington, D.C. this 5th day of

January, 2001.

Linda Poole,

Certifying Officer, Division of Trade

Adjustment Assistance.

[FR Doc. 01–3289 Filed 2–7–01; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

[NAFTA–4259]

Facemate Corp., Somersworth, NH;

Notice of Termination of Investigation

Pursuant to Title V of the North

American Free Trade Agreement

Implementation Act (Pub. L. 103–182)

concerning transitional adjustment

assistance, hereinafter called NAFTA–

TAA and in accordance with section

250(a), subchapter D, chapter 2, Title II,

of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended

(19 U.S.C. 2331), an investigation was

initiated on October 24, 2000, in

response to a petition filed on behalf of

workers at Facemate Corporation,

Somersworth, New Hampshire. Workers

produce cotton flannel cloth.

The petitioner has requested that the

petition be withdrawn. Consequently,

further investigation in this case would

serve no purpose, and the investigation

has been terminated.

Signed in Washington, DC this 12th day of

January, 2001.

Linda G. Poole,

Certifying Officer, Division of Trade

Adjustment Assistance.

[FR Doc. 01–3307 Filed 2–7–01; 8:45 am]

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