[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 224 (Tuesday, November 20, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58174-58175]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-28981]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-39,742]


Republic Technologies International, LLC, Johnstown, PA; Notice 
of Negative Determination On Reopening

    The Department on its own motion reopened the petition 
investigation for workers of the subject firm. The denial notice was 
signed on August 14, 2001, and published in the Federal Register on 
August 23, 2001 (66 FR 44379).
    The Department initially denied TAA to workers engaged in the 
production of steel bar (billets), at Republic Technologies 
International, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, because criterion (3) of the 
worker group eligibility requirements of section 222 of the Trade Act 
of 1974, as amended, was not met. Increased imports did not contribute 
importantly to declines in sales or production and worker separations.
    The petitioner states that an affiliated plant located in Canton, 
Ohio producing hot rolled steel bars was certified for TAA under TA-W-
38,782. The petitioner further states that these two facilities are 
identical, owned and operated by the same corporation and also supply 
the same customers.
    The billets produced at the Johnstown facility are not like and 
directly competitive with hot rolled steel bars produced at the Canton 
plant. In fact, the subject plant shipped virtually all (a negligible 
amount went to the Canton, Ohio plant) billet production to an 
affiliated plant located in Lackawanna, New York to be rolled into hot 
rolled steel bars. The Lackawanna, New York facility was not under any 
TAA certification during the relevant period. The Canton certification 
was based on outside customers increasing their reliance on hot rolled 
steel bars, not billets.
    Although the Canton and Johnstown plants are operated by the same

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corporation, they produce different products. The two plants are not 
vertically integrated and therefore the Johnstown workers may not be 
tied to the Canton TAA certification.

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.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 30th day of October 2001.
Edward A. Tomchick,
Director, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 01-28981 Filed 11-19-01; 8:45 am]
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