[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 76 (Tuesday, April 21, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19754-19755]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-10540]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration
[TA-W-33,289]


CDR Ridgway, Ridgway, Pennsylvania; Notice of Revised 
Determination on Reconsideration

    The Department, on its own motion, has reconsidered its negative 
determination in United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO-CLC, and 
United Steelworkers of America, Local 13694 v. Alexis Herman, No. 97-
09-01601, U.S. Court of International Trade. As a result of this 
reconsideration, the Department is now certifying the workers of CDR 
Ridgway in Ridgway, Pennsylvania as eligible to apply for trade 
adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act.
    The April 28, 1997, denial of TAA for workers of the subject firm 
was based on the finding that criterion (2) of the group eligibility 
requirements of Section 222 of the Trade Act was not met. Company-wide 
sales of pigments increased in 1996 compared to 1995. Layoffs were 
attributable to the parent company's decision to transfer the Ridgway 
pigment production to three other domestic locations.
    New investigation findings show that although corporate-wide sales 
of pigments increased from 1995 to 1996, sales, production and 
employment at the Ridgway plant declined to zero when the plant closed 
in the first quarter of 1997. Accordingly, criteria (1) and (2) of 
Section 222 of the Trade Act are met.
    On reconsideration, the Department conducted a survey of Ridgway's 
major declining customers. Survey results show that in 1996 compared to 
1995, customers increased reliance on imports of pigments while 
decreasing purchases from CDR Ridgway, Ridgway, Pennsylvania.

Conclusion

    After careful review of the additional facts obtained on remand, it 
is concluded that increased imports of articles like or directly 
competitive with pigments produced at CDR Ridgway, Ridgway, 
Pennsylvania contributed importantly to the decline in sales or 
production and to the total or partial separation of workers at subject 
firm. In accordance with the provisions of the Trade Act of 1974, I 
make the following revised determination:

    ``All workers of CDR Ridgway, Ridgway, Pennsylvania, who became 
totally or partially separated from employment on or after February 
19, 1996 through two years

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from the date of certification, are eligible to apply for adjustment 
assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.''

    Signed in Washington, D.C. this 30th day of March, 1998.
Grant D. Beale,
Acting Director, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 98-10540 Filed 4-20-98; 8:45 am]
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