[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 243 (Thursday, December 18, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 66393]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-33021]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration
[NAFTA-01881; NAFTA-01881D]


Fruit of the Loom; Martin Mills, Inc. D/B/A/ St. Martinville 
Mills Including Former Employees of Jeanerette Mills St. Martinville, 
Louisiana; Jeanerette Mills; Division of Martin Mills, Inc., 
Jeanerette, Louisiana; Amended Certification Regarding Eligibility to 
Apply for NAFTA Transitional Adjustment Assistance

    In accordance with Section 250(a), Subchapter D, Chapter 2, Title 
II, of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 USC 2273), the Department 
of Labor issued a Certification of Eligibility to Apply for NAFTA 
Transitional Adjustment Assistance on August 29, 1997, applicable to 
workers of Fruit of the Loom, Martin Mills, Inc., located in St. 
Martinville, Louisiana. The certification was amended on September 14, 
1997, to specify that Martin Mills, Inc., is doing business in St. 
Martinville, Louisiana as St. Martinville Mills, and to include those 
workers of the subject firm whose wages were reported under the 
separate Unemployment Insurance tax account for Jeanerette Mills. The 
notice of amended certification was published in the Federal Register 
on September 30, 1997 (62 FR 51160).
    At the request of the company, the Department reviewed the 
certification for workers of the subject firm. The company reports that 
worker separations will occur at the Jeanerette Mills, Division of 
Martin Mills in Jeanerette, Louisiana. The workers are engaged in 
employment related to the production of T-shirts, briefs, and A-shirts.
    The intent of the Department's certification is to include all 
workers of Fruit of the Loom adversely affected by increased imports of 
underwear.
    The amended notice applicable to NAFTA-01881 is hereby issued as 
follows:

    All workers of Fruit of the Loom, Martin Mills, Inc., doing 
business as St. Martinville Mills, including former employees of 
Jeanerette Mills, St. Martinville, Louisiana (NAFTA-01881) and 
Jeanerette Mills, Division of Martin Mills, Inc., Jeanerette, 
Louisiana (NAFTA-01881D), who became totally or partially separated 
from employment on or after August 14, 1996, are eligible to apply 
for adjustment assistance under Section 250 of the Trade Act of 
1974.

    Signed in Washington, D.C. this 9th day of December 1997.
Grant D. Beale,
Acting Director, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 97-33021 Filed 12-17-97; 8:45 am]
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