[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 214 (Wednesday, November 5, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59887-59888]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-29214]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration
[TA-W-33,452]


Precision Scientific Division of Jouan Incorporated, Chicago, 
Illinois, Notice of Negative Determination Regarding Application for 
Reconsideration

    By application dated July 9, 1997, one of the petitioners requested 
administrative reconsideration of the Department's negative 
determination regarding worker eligibility to apply for trade 
adjustment assistance. The denial notice applicable to workers of the 
subject firm located in Chicago, Illinois was signed on June 2, 1997 
and published in the Federal Register on June 27, 1997 (62 FR 34711).
    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 
misinterpretation of facts or of the law justified reconsideration of 
the decision.
    Findings of the initial investigation showed that workers of 
Precision Scientific of Chicago, Illinois were engaged in employment 
related to the manufacture of CO-2 incubators, Thelco Ovens, vacuum 
pumps, and water baths. The Department's denial of TAA for workers of 
the subject firm was based on the fact that increases of imports of 
like and directly competitive did not contribute importantly to the 
worker separations and that the subject firm shifted production 
performed at the Chicago facility to a new facility in Winchester, 
Virginia.
    The petitioner claims that all equipment used in the production of 
CO-2 incubators and vacuum pumps at the Chicago facility was not 
transferred to the Winchester facility but shipped to Europe and that 
this equipment will be used to manufacture like and directly 
competitive articles for import into the United States.
    The company official reports that the equipment was not shipped to 
Europe but sold at auction in Chicago on August 7, 1997. The sale was 
confirmed by the company handling the auction.
    Further, the shipment of equipment to another country is not a 
sufficient reason to conclude that the products

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produced on that equipment will be imported into the United States at 
some point in the future and, thus, be a significant reason to conclude 
that potential future imports contributed significantly to the previous 
employment declines at Precision Scientific.

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 decision. Accordingly, the application is denied.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 27th day of October 1997.
Grant D. Beale,
Acting Director, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 97-29214 Filed 11-4-97; 8:45 am]
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