[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 52 (Tuesday, March 18, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 12933]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-6403]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-40,824]


Fort Dearborn Company, Coldwater, MI; Notice of Revised 
Determination on Reconsideration

    By letter dated July 11, 2002, an employee on behalf of petitioners 
requested administrative reconsideration regarding the Department's 
Negative Determination Regarding Eligibility to Apply for Worker 
Adjustment Assistance, applicable to the workers of the subject firm.
    The initial investigation resulted in a negative determination 
issued on June 11, 2002, based on the finding that imports of paper 
labels used in the food and beverage industry did not contribute 
importantly to worker separations at the Coldwater plant. The denial 
notice was published in the Federal Register on June 24, 2002 (67 FR 
42583).
    During the period that the Department was reviewing allegations 
made in the request for reconsideration, a petition on behalf of the 
same subject firm workers for NAFTA-Transitional Adjustment Assistance 
was certified on the basis of increased customer imports (NAFTA-6425) 
for the same worker group and the same time period as that which was 
established in the trade adjustment assistance petition. Therefore, 
workers of Fort Dearborn Company, Coldwater, Michigan meet criterion 
(3) of section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.

Conclusion

    After careful review of the additional facts obtained on 
reconsideration, I conclude that increased imports of articles like or 
directly competitive with those produced at Fort Dearborn Company, 
Coldwater, Michigan, contributed importantly to the declines in sales 
or production and to the total or partial separation of workers at the 
subject firm. In accordance with the provisions of the Act, I make the 
following certification:

    ``All workers of Fort Dearborn Company, Coldwater, Michigan, who 
became totally or partially separated from employment on or after 
January 8, 2001, through two years from the date of this 
certification, are eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under 
section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.''

    Signed in Washington, DC, this 19th day of February, 2003.
Edward A. Tomchick,
Director, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 03-6403 Filed 3-17-03; 8:45 am]
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