[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 140 (Thursday, July 20, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45107-45108]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-18352]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-37,603]


A. Schulman, Inc., Dispersion Division, Orange, TX; Notice of 
Negative Determination Regarding Application for Reconsideration

    By application dated June 28, 2000, the petitioner, PACE Local 4-
836, requests administrative reconsideration of the Department's 
negative determination regarding eligibility to apply for Trade 
Adjustment Assistance (TAA), applicable to workers and former workers 
of the subject firm. The denial notice was signed on May 25, 2000, and 
published in the Federal Register on June 29, 2000 (65 FR 40135).
    Pursuant to 29 CFR 90.18(c) reconsideration may be granted under 
the following circumstances:
    (1) If it appears on the basis of facts not previously considered 
that the determination complained of was erroneous;
    (2) if it appears that the determination complained of was based on 
a mistake in the determination of facts not previously considered; or
    (3) if in the opinion of the Certifying Officer, a 
misinterpretation of facts or of the law justified reconsideration of 
the decision.
    The workers at A. Schulman, Inc., Dispersion Division, Orange, 
Texas, produce polypropylene and polyethylene products (TPPs and PBAs). 
The workers were denied eligibility to apply for TAA based on the 
finding that criterion (3) of the worker group eligibility requirements 
of Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, was not met. 
Increased imports did not contribute importantly to worker separations 
at the subject firm.
    The petitioner asserts that the production equipment moved to 
Mexico will be used to produce articles like or directly competitive 
with those produced by the workers of A. Schulman, Inc. at the Orange, 
Texas plant.
    The Trade Act of 1974 does not contain provisions to certify a 
worker group based on a shift in production to a foreign country.

Conclusion

    After review of the application and investigative findings, I 
conclude that there has been no error or misinterpretation of the law 
or of the facts which would justify reconsideration of the Department 
of Labor's prior decision. Accordingly, the application is denied.


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    Signed at Washington, D.C. this 12th day of July 2000.
Grant D. Beale,
Program Manager, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 00-18352 Filed 7-19-00; 8:45 am]
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