[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 107 (Friday, June 2, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35397-35398]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-13755]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-37,303 and NAFTA-3688]


Motor Coils Manufacturing, Emporium, Pennsylvania; Notice of 
Revised Determination on Reconsideration

    By application dated March 24, 2000, petitioners requested 
administrative reconsideration of the Department's denial of Trade 
Adjustment Assistance (TAA) petition number TA-W-37,303 and North 
American Free Trade Agreement-Transitional Adjustment Assistance 
(NAFTA-TAA) petition number NAFTA-3688, for workers and former workers 
of Motor Coils Manufacturing, Emporium, Pennsylvania. The notices of 
negative determination were issued March 8, 2000 and published in the 
Federal Register on March 31, 2000 (65 FR 17312) and (65 FR 17313), 
respectively.
    The March 8, 2000 denial of TAA and NAFTA-TAA for workers of the 
subject firm engaged in employment related to the refurbishment of 
traction motors for locomotives at Motor Coils Manufacturing, Emporium, 
Pennsylvania, was based on the finding that the workers provided a 
service and did not produce an article within the meaning of the group 
eligibility requirements of section 222 and 250(a) of the Trade Act of 
1974, as amended.
    The Department, on reconsideration, has learned that the workers 
produce an article, and all the worker group eligibility requirements 
of section 222 of the Trade Act of 1974 have been met. There were 
declines in sales or

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production, employment, and increased imports of articles like or 
directly competitive with those produced by workers of the subject 
firm.
    The Department has obtained information on reconsideration that 
there were increased company imports of traction motors for locomotives 
from Mexico during the relevant time period.

Conclusion

    After careful consideration of the new facts obtained on 
reconsideration, it is concluded that the workers of Motor Coils 
Manufacturing, Emporium, Pennsylvania, were adversely affected by 
increased imports of articles, including those from Mexico, like or 
directly competitive with those produced at the subject firm.

    All workers of Motor Coils Manufacturing, Emporium, 
Pennsylvania, who became totally or partially separated from 
employment on or after January 18, 1999 through two years from the 
date of the certification, are eligible to apply for worker 
adjustment assistance under section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974;

* * * and

    All workers of Motor Coils Manufacturing, Emporium, 
Pennsylvania, separated from employment on or after January 17, 
1999, through two years from the date of the certification, are 
eligible to apply for NAFTA-TAA under section 250 of the Trade Act 
of 1974.


    Signed at Washington, DC this 23rd day of May 2000.
Grant D. Beale,
Program Manager, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 00-13755 Filed 6-1-00; 8:45 am]
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