[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 112 (Tuesday, June 11, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 40017]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-14595]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-40,692]


Vartec CRM, Incorporated, Waco, TX; Notice of Negative 
Determination Regarding Application for Reconsideration

    By application of March 14, 2002, the petitioner, requested 
administrative reconsideration of the Department's negative 
determination regarding eligibility for workers and former workers of 
the subject firm to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA). The 
denial notice was signed on February 19, 2002 and published in the 
Federal Register on February 28, 2002 (67 FR 9324).
    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 mis-
interpretation of facts or of the law justified reconsideration of the 
decision.
    The petition, filed on behalf of workers at Vartec CRM, 
Incorporated, Waco, Texas engaged in providing customer relations 
management was denied because the workers did not produce an article 
within the meaning of Section 222(3) of the Act.
    The petitioner alleges that the subject plant workers manufactured 
a product and refers to the product as information.
    The activities of the customer relations management workers of 
providing information does not qualify as an article of production, but 
is considered a service function.
    The subject workers do not produce an article within the meaning of 
Section 222(3) of the Act.

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 9th day of May, 2002.
Edward A. Tomchick,
Director, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 02-14595 Filed 6-10-02; 8:45 am]
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