[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 90 (Friday, May 9, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 25661]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-12222]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration
[TA-W-32,009]


Chevron Overseas Petroleum, Inc., San Ramon, California; Notice 
of Negative Determination on Reconsideration on Remand

    The United States Court of International Trade (USCIT) granted the 
Secretary of Labor's motion for a voluntary remand for further 
investigation in Nelson v. Secretary of Labor, No. 94-10-00630.
    The Department's initial denial for the workers of Chevron Overseas 
Petroleum, Inc. (COPI), San Ramon, California, issued on March 25, 1996 
and published in the Federal Register on April 9, 1996 (61 FR 45,711), 
was based on the fact that criterion (3) of the group eligibility 
requirements of Section 222 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, was 
not met.
    The petitioners request for reconsideration resulted in a negative 
determination regarding the application which was issued on June 4, 
1996 and published in the Federal Register on June 19, 1996 (61 FR 
31,165). The Department's findings affirmed that the workers were not 
assigned to a domestic operating company producing oil and gas in the 
United States.
    The petitioners identified the effected worker group as the New 
Ventures Business Unit of Chevron Overseas Petroleum, a division of 
Chevron U.S.A., Inc. During the initial TAA petition investigation the 
company reported that Chevron Overseas Petroleum is a division of 
Chevron U.S.A., Inc., which in turn is a wholly-owned subsidiary of 
Chevron Corporation.
    On remand, the Department contacted the company official to clarify 
the link between the work performed by employees of the New Ventures 
Business Unit at the Chevron Overseas Petroleum division location in 
San Ramon and Chevron's domestic production of oil and gas. Findings 
show that the New Ventures Business Unit of COPI is a services based 
organization; technical staff dominate the employees of New Ventures 
Business Unit. Employees provide drilling, earth science, engineering 
and information technology support and services to COPI's overseas 
based Business Units. They provide no services for Chevron 
Corporation's domestic upstream affiliate.
    Other findings on remand show that the customers of the New 
Ventures Business Unit of COPI are COPI's Business Units overseas. None 
of the work performed by employees of New Ventures Business Unit of 
COPI in San Ramon supported Chevron's domestic production of oil and 
gas.

Conclusion

    After reconsideration on remand, I affirm the original notice of 
negative determination of eligibility to apply for adjustment 
assistance for workers and former workers of Chevron Overseas 
Petroleum, Inc., San Ramon, California.

    Signed at Washington, D.C. this 1st day of May 1997.
Russell T. Kile,
Program Manager, Policy and Reemployment Services, Office of Trade 
Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 97-12222 Filed 5-8-97; 8:45 am]
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