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Ruey Ryh Enterprise Co., Ltd., 133, An

Hsi Street, An Hsi Village, Chang Hua

Hsien, Taiwan, Postcode 504

Yuan Mei Group, No. 1, Lane 288, Sec.

1 Lu Ho Rd., Lu Kang, Chang Hua

Hsien, Taiwan

Amagine Garden, Inc., No. 21, Lane 409,

Lu Ho Rd. Sec., Lu Kang Chen, Chang

Hua Hsien, Taiwan

Aqua Star Industries, Inc., 5775 Jurupa

St., Ontario, California 91761

Le Yuan Industrial Co., Ltd. No. 10 Fang

Tung Road, Rangyuan Hsiang,

Changhua, Taiwan

Shin Da Spurt Water of Garden Tool

Co., Ltd., No. 75, Koao Tsuoh Land,

Kiao Tauoh Li, Chang Hua Hsien,

Taiwan, Postcode 505

Melnor, Inc., One Carol Place,

Moonachie, New Jersey 07074–1386

Rain Bird Sprinkler Manufacturing

Corp., 145 N. Grand St., Glendora,

California 91741–2469

Lego Irrigation Equipment, Kiryat

Nordau, Netanya, Israel

Naan Sprinkler and Irrigation Systems,

Inc., Kibbutz Naan, 76829, Israel

Orbit Irrigation Products, Inc., 845 N.

Overland Road, North Salt Lake, Utah

84054

Gardena Krest + Kastner GmbH, HansLorenserstrasse 40, D–89070 Ulm,

Germany

Watex International Co., Ltd., 10, Chung

Shan Road, Min Shun Hsiang,

Taiwan,

(c) Juan Cockburn, Esq., Office of

Unfair Import Investigations, U.S.

International Trade Commission, 500 E

Street, S.W., Room 401–Q, Washington,

D.C. 20436, who shall be the

Commission investigative attorney,

party to this investigation; and

(3) For the investigation so instituted,

the Honorable Paul J. Luckern is

designated as the presiding

administrative law judge.

Responses to the complaint and the

notice of investigation must be

submitted by the named respondents in

accordance with § 210.13 of the

Commission’s rules of practice and

procedure, 19 CFR 210.13. Pursuant to

19 CFR 201.16(d) and 210.13(a) of the

Commission’s rules, such responses will

be considered by the Commission if

received not later than 20 days after the

date of service by the Commission of the

complaint and the notice of

investigation. Extensions of time for

submitting responses to the complaint

will not be granted unless good cause

therefor is shown.

Failure of the respondent to file a

timely response to each allegation in the

complaint and in this notice may be

deemed to constitute a waiver of the

right to appear and contest the

allegations of the complaint and this

notice, and to authorize the

administrative law judge and the

Commission, without further notice to

the respondent, to find the facts to be as

alleged in the complaint and this notice

and to enter both an initial

determination and a final determination

containing such findings, and may

result in the issuance of a limited

exclusion order or a cease and desist

order or both directed against such

respondent.

Issued: February 5, 2001.

By order of the Commission.

Donna R. Koehnke,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–3342 Filed 2–8–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

2001 National Research Conference;

Call for Papers

AGENCY: Employment and Training

Administration, Labor.

ACTION: Notice of request for

information.

SUMMARY: This document requests

empirical/non-empirical papers related

to workforce development issues for the

purpose of developing a comprehensive

agenda for a National Research

Conference to be convened in

Washington, DC on June 26–27, 2001.

DATES: Papers submitted for inclusion in

the agenda for the National Workforce

Security Research Conference must be

received by March 16, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Papers should be sent to the

Office of Workforce Security,

Employment and Training

Administration, U.S. Department of

Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW.,

Room S–4231, Washington, DC 20210.

Attention: Esther R. Johnson.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Esther R. Johnson, Office of Workforce

Security, Employment and Training

Administration, Room S–4231, U.S.

Department of Labor, Washington, DC

20210, Email erjohnson@doleta.gov,

telephone (202) 693–3165. This is not a

toll-free number. To review previously

published studies by the Office of

Workforce Security, access

via the Internet at http://wdr.doleta.gov/

owsdrr/.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Background

The Employment and Training

Administration of the U.S. Department

of Labor (DOL) is the Federal

government agency responsible for

implementing a national workforce

security system that enables workers

and employers to compete and succeed

in an ever-changing economy. This is

accomplished through the provision of

world-class labor market information,

job search assistance, training, and

unemployment insurance benefits, to

manage the risks associated with

unemployment, declining income, and

skill shortages. Its most recent effort, the

implementation of the Workforce

Investment Act, combines a variety of

workforce development programs and

initiatives under one umbrella—the

One-Stop System—to effectively serve

the needs of job-seekers, workers, and

employers in the changing workforce

development environment at the onset

of the 21st century economy.

In light of major changes in the

macro-economy that have taken place in

the areas of technological

transformation, increasing globalization,

and changing demographics over recent

years, and the resulting effects of rising

workforce insecurity, the Office of

Workforce Security, Employment and

Training Administration, will hold its

first national research conference. The

conference will focus on issues related

to impacts, trends, and challenges of the

macro-economy to workforce

development, the significance of recent

changes in workforce development,

workforce competitiveness in global

economy, workforce security in our new

economy, and major policy options to

promote economic opportunities for our

workforce.

B. Information Requested

This is a call for empirical/nonempirical papers related to workforce

development issues. We are seeking

recently completed papers and papers

that will be completed prior to the

conference. We encourage contributions

by researchers from academia, State or

local agencies, business organizations,

labor associations, research consulting

firms, and other organizations. Possible

topics may include, but are not limited

to:

1. Unemployment Insurance

Program—(program administration,

benefit coverage, benefit duration,

benefit eligibility, contingent workers,

benefit financing, economic

stabilization, recipiency rate, contingent

workers, dislocated workers, telephone

remote claims);

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2. Employment Services—(labor

exchange services, labor market

information and emerging labor

markets, the role of labor market

intermediaries, worker profiling and

reemployment services, the role of selfdirected services, the role of the private

sector in training and reemployment

services, and bridging the gap between

skills and employer needs);

3. One-Stop System—(administration,

program linkages/connectivity,

financing, innovative strategies for

providing services);

4. Assisting low-wage workers—(role

of workforce development system in

assisting low-wage, female, and

informal sector labor force);

5. Welfare Reform—(impact on and

connection to workforce development

programs); and

6. Technology and labor market—(role

of Internet in job search and

employment services, labor market

mobility, training, technology and job

creation).

All papers submitted will be reviewed

by a panel of DOL experts in the

workforce development arena, and

presenters will be notified if their

papers are selected. Papers selected for

the conference will be published as part

of our OWS Occasional Paper Series.

Travel and accommodation expenses for

invited presenters will be paid by the

Office of Workforce Security. If

interested, please submit your paper/

abstract in hard copy and diskette/CD

(Word Perfect or Word) by March 16,

2001. Papers should be doubled-spaced

and single-sided. You will be notified

by April 4, 2001 if your paper is

selected; you will have to confirm your

attendance by April 10, 2001. We also

encourage submitting abstracts for

papers that have not yet been

completed, but will be completed before

the deadline for submission of papers.

Consistent with 5 CFR 1320.3(h)(4), this

is a general solicitation of information

from the general public.

C. Public Participation

The Conference will be held on June

26 and 27, 2001 in Washington, D.C.

This Conference is open to the public;

there is no registration fee. For

registration information, please contact

H.M.A Associates, Inc., 1000 Thomas

Jefferson St., NW, Suite 309,

Washington, DC, 20007, Attn: Peggie

Edwards-Jefferies or email them at

HMASSOC@worldnet.att.net.

Signed at Washington, DC, this 19th day of

January, 2001.

Raymond L. Bramucci,

Assistant Secretary, Employment and

Training Administration.

[FR Doc. 01–3394 Filed 2–8–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4510–30–P

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment Standards Administration

Wage and Hour Division

Minimum Wages for Federal and

Federally Assisted Construction;

General Wage Determination Decisions

General wage determination decisions

of the Secretary of Labor are issued in

accordance with applicable law and are

based on the information obtained by

the Department of Labor from its study

of local wage conditions and data made

available from other sources. They

specify the basic hourly wage rates and

fringe benefits which are determined to

be prevailing for the described classes of

laborers and mechanics employed on

construction projects of a similar

character and in the localities specified

therein.

The determinations in these decisions

of prevailing rates and fringe benefits

have been made in accordance with 29

CFR Part 1, by authority of the Secretary

of Labor pursuant to the provisions of

the Davis-Bacon Act of March 3, 1931,

as amended (46 Stat. 1494, as amended,

40 U.S.C. 276a) and of other Federal

statutes referred to in 29 CFR Part 1,

Appendix, as well as such additional

statutes as may from time to time be

enacted containing provisions for the

payment of wages determined to be

prevailing by the Secretary of Labor in

accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act.

The prevailing rates and fringe benefits

determined in these decisions shall, in

accordance with the provisions of the

foregoing statutes, constitute the

minimum wages payable on Federal and

federally assisted construction projects

to laborers and mechanics of the

specified classes engaged on contract

work of the character and in the

localities described therein.

Good cause is hereby found for not

utilizing notice and public comment

procedure thereon prior to the issuance

of these determinations as prescribed in

5 U.S.C. 553 and not providing for delay

in the effective date as prescribed in that

section, because the necessity to issue

current construction industry wage

determinations frequently and in large

volume causes procedures to be

impractical and contrary to the public

interest.

General wage determination

decisions, and modifications and

supersedes decisions thereto, contain no

expiration dates and are effective from

their date of notice in the Federal

Register, or on the date written notice

is received by the agency, whichever is

earlier. These decisions are to be used

in accordance with the provisions of 29

CFR Parts 1 and 5. Accordingly, the

applicable decision, together with any

modifications issued, must be made a

part of every contract for performance of

the described work within the

geographic area indicated as required by

an applicable Federal prevailing wage

law and 29 CFR Part 5. The wage rates

and fringe benefits, notice of which is

published herein, and which are

contained in the Government Printing

Office (GPO) document entitled

‘‘General Wage Determinations Issued

Under The Davis-Bacon And Related

Acts,’’ shall be the minimum paid by

contractors and subcontractors to

laborers and mechanics.

Any person, organization, or

governmental agency having an interest

in the rates determined as prevailing is

encouraged to submit wage rate and

fringe benefit information for

consideration by the Department.

Further information and selfexplanatory forms for the purpose of

submitting this data may be obtained by

writing to the U.S. Department of Labor,

Employment Standards Administration,

Wage and Hour Division, Division of

Wage Determinations, 200 Constitution

Avenue, N.W., Room S–3014,

Washington, D.C. 20210.

Modifications to General Wage

Determination Decisions

The number of decisions listed in the

Government Printing Office document

entitled ‘‘General Wage Determinations

Issued Under the Davis-Bacon and

related Acts’’ being modified are listed

by Volume and State. Dates of

publication in the Federal Register are

in parentheses following the decisions

being modified.

Volume I

None.

Volume II

None.

Volume III

None.

Volume IV

None.

Volume V

None.