[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 127 (Friday, July 2, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36044-36045]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-16877]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration
[TA-W-35, 792 et al.]


Texaco North American Production    a/k/a Texaco Exploration and 
Production Inc., Texaco Worldwide Upstream Headquarters and Texaco 
Exploration and Production Technology Houston, TX; Certification 
Regarding Eligibility To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

    In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 USC 
2273) as amended by the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 
(Pub. L. 100-418), the Department of Labor herein presents the results 
of an investigation regarding certification of eligibility to apply for 
worker adjustment assistance.
    In order to make an affirmative determination and issue a 
certification of eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance each of 
the group eligibility requirements of Section 222 of the Act must be 
met. It is determined in this case that all of the requirements have 
been met.
    The investigation was initiated in response to a petition received 
on March 8, 1999, and filed by a company official on behalf of workers 
at Texaco North American Production, also known as Texaco Exploration 
and Production Inc., operating at various locations in the above cited 
states, and at Texaco Worldwide Upstream Headquarters and at Texaco 
Exploration and Production Technology, in Houston, Texas. The workers 
are engaged in employment related to the production of crude oil and 
natural gas.
    The investigation revealed that revenues declined at the subject 
firm in 1998 compared with 1997, and also declined in January through 
February, 1999, compared with the same period of 1998. Employment also 
declined in 1999.
    United States imports of crude oil increased absolutely and 
relative to domestic shipments and consumption in November through 
October, 1997-1998, compared with the same period one year earlier. In 
January through October, 1998, the ratio of imports to domestic 
shipments of crude oil was over 133 percent. U.S. imports of dry 
natural gas also increased in the November through October, 1997-1998 
time period.

Conclusion

    After careful review of the facts obtained in the investigation, I 
conclude that increases of imports of articles like or directly 
competitive with crude oil contributed importantly to the decline in 
sales or production and to the total or partial separation of workers 
of the subject firm. In accordance with the provisions of the Act, I 
make the following certification:

    All workers of Texaco North American Production (TNAP), also 
known as Texaco Exploration and Production Inc., operating in the 
following cited states,

TA-W-35,792A ALABAMA
TA-W-35,792B CALIFORNIA
TA-W-35,792C COLORADO
TA-W-35,792D ILLINOIS
TA-W-35,792E KANSAS
TA-W-35,792F LOUISIANA
TA-W-35,792G NEW MEXICO
TA-W-35,792H OKLAHOMA
TA-W-35,792I TEXAS (excluding Houston)
TA-W-35,792J UTAH
TA-W-35,792K WYOMING

and all workers of Texaco Worldwide Upstream Headquarters and of 
Texaco Exploration and Production Technology, in Houston, Texas, who 
were in support of the TNAP operations cited above, who became 
totally or partially separated from employment on or after March 1, 
1998, through two years from the date of this

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

    Signed in Washington, DC this 7th day of June, 1999.
Grant D. Beale,
Acting Director, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 99-16877 Filed 7-1-99; 8:45 am]
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