[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 193 (Thursday, October 4, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50688-50689]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-24824]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-38,338]


Cooper Energy Services, Mount Vernon, OH; Notice of Negative 
Determination Regarding Application for Reconsideration

    On April 10, 2001, the Department received a request from 
petitioner, for 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 March 16, 2001, 
and published in the Federal Register on April 16, 2001 (66 FR 19520).
    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 Department initially denied TAA to workers engaged in the 
production of compressors, used in the oil industry, at Cooper Energy 
Services, Mount Vernon, Ohio, because the criterion (3) of the worker 
group eligibility requirements of Section 222 of the Trade Act of 1974, 
as amended, was not met. The subject firm, nor its customers, imported 
compressors.
    The petitioner states that even though compressors are not being 
imported, the components that were machined in the Mount Vernon, Ohio, 
facility are now being machined in other countries and shipped back to 
Waller, Texas, for final assembly.
    The petition was filed on behalf of the workers at the subject firm 
producing compressors, not machined components. Imports of materials to 
produce the finished articles is not relevant to this petition that was 
filed on behalf of workers producing compressors.

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

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reconsideration of the Department of Labor's prior decision. 
Accordingly, the application is denied.

    Signed at Washington, DC this 14th day of September 2001.
Edward A. Tomchick,
Director, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
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