[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 214 (Wednesday, November 5, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 59888]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-29216]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration
[TA-W-33,654]


Webster Lens Company, Webster, Massachusetts, Notice of Revised 
Determination on Reopening

    On August 8, 1997, the Department issued a Negative Determination 
Regarding Eligibility to apply for worker adjustment assistance, 
applicable to workers and former workers of Webster Lens Company 
located in Webster, Massachusetts. The notice was published in the 
Federal Register on August 8,1997 (62 FR 48887).
    By letter of August 14, 1997, Mr. Mauno A. Petajasoja, a 
petitioner, requested administrative reconsideration regarding the 
Department's denial of trade adjustment assistance for workers of the 
subject firm. Workers at the subject firm were engaged in employment 
related to the production of eyeglass lenses. The workers are not 
separately identifiable by product line.
    New information provided by Webster Lens Company and one of its 
suppliers shows that company was purchasing through a broker eyeglass 
lenses which were manufactured overseas and being imported into the 
U.S.

Conclusion

    After careful review of the additional facts obtained on reopening, 
I conclude that increased imports of articles like or directly 
competitive with eyeglass lenses contributed importantly to the 
declines in sales or production and to the total or partial separation 
of workers of Webster Lens Company, Webster, Massachusetts. In 
accordance with the provisions of the Act, I make the following 
certification:

    All workers of Webster Lens Company of Webster, Massachusetts 
engaged in employment related to the production of eyeglass lenses, 
who became totally or partially separated from employment on or 
after June 24, 1996 are eligible to apply for worker adjustment 
assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1976.

    Signed in Washington, DC, this 22nd day of October 1997.
Grant D. Beale,
Acting Director, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 97-29216 Filed 11-4-97; 8:45 am]
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