[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 30 (Wednesday, February 13, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 6753]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-3408]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[NAFTA-05251 and NAFTA-05251A]


Williamette Industries, Inc., Korpine Particleboard Division 
Including Temporary Workers of Express Personnel Services Bend, Oregon; 
Williamette Industries, Inc., Particleboard Sales Office Albany, 
Oregon; Amended Certification Regarding Eligibility To Apply for NAFTA-
Transitional Adjustment Assistance

    In accordance with section 250(a), Subchapter D, Chapter 2, Title 
II, of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2273), the 
Department of Labor issued a Certification of Eligibility to Apply for 
NAFTA Transitional Adjustment Assistance on December 7, 2001, 
applicable to workers of Willamette Industries, Inc., Korpine Division, 
Bend, Oregon. The Notice was published in the Federal Register on 
December 26, 2001 (66 FR 66427).
    At the request of the State agency, the Department reviewed the 
certification for workers of the subject firm. Informational provided 
by the State and the company shows that temporary workers of Express 
Personnel were employed at Willamette Industries, Korpine Particleboard 
Division of produced industrial pine particleboard at the Bend, Oregon 
location of the subject firm.
    Information also shows that worker separations occurred at the 
Particleboard Sales Office, Albany Oregon. Workers provide sales 
function services for the Korpine Particleboard Division of the subject 
firm.
    Based on these findings, the Department is amending the 
certification to include temporary workers of Express Personnel 
Services, Bend, Oregon Employed at Willamette Industries, Inc., Korpine 
Particleboard Division, Bend, Oregon and to include the Particleboard 
Sales Office, Albany, Oregon.
    The intent of the Department's certification is to include all 
workers of Willamette Industries, Inc., Korpine Particleboard Div. 
affected by increased customer imports of industrial pine particleboard 
from Canada and Mexico.
    The amended notice applicable to NAFTA-95251 is hereby issued as 
follows:

    All workers of Willamette Industries, Inc., Korpine 
Particleboard Division, Bend, Oregon including temporary workers of 
Express Personnel Services, Bend,Oregon (NAFTA-5251) engaged in 
employment related to the production of industrial pine 
particleboard at Willamette Industries, Inc., Korpine Particleboard 
Division, Bend, Oregon, and all workers of Willamette Industries, 
Particleboard Sales Office, Albany, Oregon (NAFTA-5251A) who became 
totally of partially separated from employment on or after August 
17, 2000, through December 7, 2003, are eligible to apply for NAFTA-
TAA under Section 250 of the Trade Act of 1974.

    Signed in Washington, DC, this 4th day of February, 2002.
Linda G. Poole,
Certifying Officer, Division of, Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 02-3408 Filed 2-12-02; 8:45 am]
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