[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 133 (Wednesday, July 11, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36330-36331]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-17362]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-37,987]


Hobman Corporation Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania; Notice of Revised 
Determination on Reconsideration

    On February 6, 2001, the Department accepted a request from 
petitioners for reconsideration of the Department of Labor's Negative 
Determination Regarding Eligibility to Apply for Worker Adjustment 
Assistance applicable to workers of the subject firm. The notice was 
published in the Federal Register on February 20, 2001 (66 FR 10918).
    The initial investigation resulted in a negative determination 
because the ``contributed importantly'' test of the Group Eligibility 
Requirements of the Trade Act was not met for workers at the subject 
firm. The workers at Hobman Corporation in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, 
produced model train transformers and plastics. The denial notice was 
published in the Federal Register on November 16, 2000 (65 FR 69342).
    On reconsideration, the Department obtained new information from 
the

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company regarding the production at the subject firm plant. Although 
the subject firm sales consisted of model train transformers and 
plastics, workers at the plant produced power packs during the time 
relevant to the investigation. New findings of the investigation show 
that from 1998 to 1999, the subject firm increased imports of power 
packs and plastics. The Hobman Corporation, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania 
plant closed in September 2000, and the production was transferred to 
another U.S. facility.

Conclusion

    After careful consideration of the new facts obtained on 
reconsideration, it is concluded that increased imports of articles 
like or directly competitive with the articles produced by the subject 
firm contributed importantly to the decline in sales or production and 
to the total or partial separation of workers of Hobman Corporation, 
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. In accordance with the provisions of the 
Trade Act of 1974, I make the following revised determination:

    All workers at Hobman Corporation, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, who 
became totally or partially separated from employment on or after 
August 10, 1999, through two years from the date of certification, 
are eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of 
the Trade Act of 1974.


    Signed in Washington, DC this 25th day of June 2001.
Edward A. Tomchick,
Director, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 01-17362 Filed 7-10-01; 8:45 am]
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