[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 216 (Thursday, November 7, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 67876]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-28387]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[NAFTA-5171 and NAFTA-5171A]


Huntsman Polymers Corporation; Huntsman Polymers Corporation 
Utilities Division, Odessa, TX; Notice of Determinations on Reopening

    The Department, on its own motion, reopened on September 3, 2002, 
the certification regarding eligibility for workers of the subject firm 
to apply for North American Free Trade Agreement-Transitional 
Adjustment Assistance (NAFTA-TAA), applicable to workers and former 
workers of the subject firm engaged in activities related to the 
production of styrene monomers (NAFTA-5171). The certification was 
issued on August 29, 2001, and was published in the Federal Register on 
September 11, 2001 (66 FR 47241).
    The petition investigation was reopened because the Department 
failed to include a determination as to whether workers in the 
Utilities Division of Huntsman Polymers Corporation, Odessa, Texas are 
eligible to apply for NAFTA-TAA. The workers at Huntsman Polymers are 
separately identifiable by product produced at the plant.
    The findings of the investigation on reopening show that workers of 
Huntsman Polymers Corporation, Utilities Division, Odessa, Texas, 
``managed'' the water supply and other raw materials utilized in the 
various manufacturing processes performed at the subject firm.
    The investigation revealed that the workers of the subject firm do 
not produce an article within the meaning of section 250(a) of the 
Trade Act of 1974. The Department of Labor has consistently determined 
that the performance of services does not constitute production of an 
article, as required by the Trade Act of 1974. Workers of the subject 
facility may be certified only if their separation was caused 
importantly by a reduced demand for their services from a parent firm, 
a firm otherwise related to the subject firm by ownership, or a firm 
related by control.
    The investigation revealed that the workers in the Utilities 
Division spent some of their time in support of the production of 
styrene monomers, but the majority of their work was in support of 
other production operations at the Odessa, Texas plant.

Conclusion

    The certification applicable to workers engaged in activities 
related to the production of styrene monomers at Huntsman Polymers 
Corporation, Odessa, Texas (NAFTA-5171), remains in effect through 
August 29, 2003.
    After careful review of the findings of the investigation on 
reopening, I conclude that workers of Huntsman Polymers Corporation, 
Utilities Division, Odessa, Texas (NAFTA-5171A), are denied eligibility 
to apply for NAFTA-TAA under section 250 of the Trade Act.

    Signed in Washington, DC this 23rd day of October, 2002.
Edward A. Tomchick,
Director, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 02-28387 Filed 11-6-02; 8:45 am]
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