[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 111 (Friday, June 8, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30949-30950]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-14419]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[NAFTA-4287]


ABB/Westinghouse, Hematite Plant, Festus, Missouri; Notice of 
Negative Determination on Reconsideration

    By application dated March 3, 2001, a petitioner requests 
administrative reconsideration of the Department's negative 
determination regarding eligibility to apply for North American Free 
Trade Agreement-Transitional Adjustment Assistance (NAFTA-TAA), 
applicable to workers and former workers of the subject firm. The 
denial notice applicable to workers of the subject firm was issued on 
February 7, 2001, and was published in the Federal Register on March 2, 
2001 (66 FR 13087).
    The petitioner presented new evidence regarding company imports of 
pellets from Canada.
    The Department denied NAFTA-TAA to workers of ABB/Westinghouse, 
Hematite Plant, Festus, Missouri, producing nuclear fuel rods and 
pellets because criteria (3) and (4) of the group eligibility 
requirements of paragraph (a)(1) of section 250 of the Trade Act of 
1974, as amended, were not met. There were no company imports of 
articles like or directly competitive with those produced by the 
workers. The production at the Festus, Missouri plant was shifted to a 
country other than Mexico or Canada.
    On February 7, all workers of the subject firm were certified 
eligible to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TA-W-38, 300). That 
investigation revealed that production at the Festus, Missouri, plant 
was being transferred to a foreign source outside of the United States, 
Mexico and Canada. The investigative findings also revealed that 
company imports, from countries other than Mexico and Canada, of 
articles like or directly competitive with those produced by the 
workers in Festus, Missouri, increased significantly.
    On reconsideration, the Department has carefully reviewed the 
materials

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submitted by the petitioner with respect to the pellet imports shipped 
from Canada. This review finds that the company imports from countries 
other than Mexico or Canada contributed more importantly to declines in 
sales or production and to worker separations at ABB/Westinghouse, 
Hematite Plant, Festus, Missouri, than the Canadian imports identified 
by the petitioner.

Conclusion

    After reconsideration, I affirm the original notice of negative 
determination of eligibility to apply for NAFTA-TAA for workers and 
former workers of ABB/Westinghouse, Hematite Plant, Festus, Missouri.

    Signed at Washington, DC this 24th day of May 2001.
Edward A. Tomchick,
Director, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 01-14419 Filed 6-7-01; 8:45 am]
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