[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 225 (Tuesday, November 23, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 65732]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-30455]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration
[TA-W-36,481]


Wyman-Gordon Forgings, Houston, TX; Notice of Revised 
Determination on Reconsideration

    By letter dated September 7, 1999, the International Association of 
Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO (IAM), South Texas District 
Lodge 37, requested administrative reconsideration of the Departments 
negative determination applicable to workers of the subject firm.
    The initial investigation resulted in a negative determination 
issued on July 30, 1999, based on the finding that criteria (2) and (3) 
of the group eligibility requirements of Section 222 of the Trade Act 
of 1974, as amended, were not met for workers of Wyman-Gordon Forgings, 
Houston, Texas, engaged in employment related to the production of 
aerospace forgings and extruded products. The denial notice was 
published in the Federal Register on September 29, 1999 (64 FR 52539).
    The IAM asserts that the petition was filed for workers engaged 
employment related to the work and the associated machinery being sent 
to Mexico from Houston, specifically part numbers 732, 733 and 734 
discs which were high volume items produced at the subject firm plant.
    The Department has obtained new evidence showing that the sales of 
aerospace products at the Houston plant have declined. Other new 
findings on reconsideration show that the production of aerospace 
products shifted from the subject firm plant in Houston are being 
imported to the Untied States.
    The IAM did not present evidence that disputes the Department's 
finding that increased imports of articles like or directly competitive 
with extruded products produced by the workers of the subject firm 
contributed to worker separations.
    The workers producing aerospace and extruded products are 
separately identifiable.

Conclusion

    After careful review of the additional facts obtained on 
reconsideration. I conclude that increased imports of aerospace 
products contributed importantly to the declines in sales or production 
and to the total or partial separation of workers of Wyman-Gordon 
Forgings, Houston, Texas. In accordance with the provisions of the Act. 
I make the following determination:

    All workers of Wyman-Gordon Forgings, Houston, Texas, engaged in 
employment related to the production of aerospace products, who 
became totally or partially separated from employment on or after 
June 7, 1998 through two years from the date of this certification 
are eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of 
the Trade Act of 1974, and
    I further determine that after reconsideration. I affirm the 
original notice of negative determination of eligibility to apply 
for adjustment assistance for workers and former workers engaged in 
employment related to extruded products at Wyman-Gordon Forgings, 
Houston, Texas.

    Signed at Washington, DC this 15th day of November 1999.
Grant D. Beale,
Program Manager, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 99-30455 Filed 11-22-99; 8:45 am]
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