[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 201 (Wednesday, October 17, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 52784]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-26041]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-37,047]


Marathon Ashland Pipe Line, LLC Bridgeport, IL; Notice of 
Negative Determination of Reconsideration on Remand

    The United States Court of International Trade (USCIT) granted the 
Secretary of Labor's motion for a voluntary remand for further 
investigation in Marathon Ashland Pipe Line LLC v. Alexis Herman U.S. 
Secretary of Labor, No. 00-04-00171.
    The Department's initial denial for the workers transporting crude 
oil and petroleum products at Marathon Ashland Pipe Line, LLC, 
Bridgeport, Illinois, issued on December 2, 1999, and published in the 
Federal Register on December 28, 1999 (64 FR 72691), was based on the 
finding that the group eligibility requirements of section 222 of the 
Trade Act of 1974, as amended, were not met.
    The petitioners request for reconsideration resulted in a negative 
determination regarding the application which was issued on February 
11, 2000, and was published in the Federal Register on February 22, 
2000 (64 FR 8743). The Department's findings affirmed that the workers 
were providing a service and were not producing an article.
    On remand, in order to determine if the worker group supported 
crude oil production of the parent company, the Department contacted 
officials of Marathon Ashland Pipe Line LLC, to obtain additional 
information regarding the transportation of articles produced by the 
parent company, Marathon Oil Company, Inc. The investigation on remand 
revealed that in 1997, 1998 and in the January through March months of 
1998 and 1999, Marathon Ashland Pipe Line Company did not transport via 
pipeline any articles produced by the parent company, Marathon Oil 
Company, Inc.
    Investigation findings on remand show that in 1997, the parent 
company purchased crude oil at the lease (Illinois Basin) that was 
transported by Marathon Pipe Line Company. In 1998, Marathon Ashland 
Petroleum LLC was formed and it purchased crude from the lease which it 
transported via the pipe line. In 1999, Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC 
did not purchase from the lease.

Conclusion

    After reconsideration on remand, I affirm the original notice of 
negative determination of eligibility to apply for adjustment 
assistance for workers and former workers of Marathon Ashland Pipe 
Line, LLC, Bridgeport, Illinois.

    Signed at Washington, DC this 20th day of August 2001.
Linda G. Poole,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
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