[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 52 (Tuesday, March 18, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12942-12943]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-6406]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-41,585]


Kennametal Inc., Greenfield Tap Plant, Greefield, MA; Notice of 
Revised Determination on Reconsideration

    By letter of October 21, 2002, the company 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 October 10, 2002, based on the finding that imports of high 
speed steel taps did not contribute importantly to worker separations 
at the Greenfield plant. The denial notice was published in the Federal 
Register on November 5, 2002 (67 FR 67421).

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    To support the request for reconsideration, the petitioner supplied 
information indicating that workers at an affiliated sister location, 
Kennametal Inc., Greenfield Products Group, Lyndonville, Vermont were 
certified for TAA under TA-W-41,616. The petitioner further indicated 
that the subject plant produced the same products (same size high speed 
steel taps) as those produced at the Lyndonville plant.
    On review of the initial investigation, and further contact with 
the company, it has become apparent that the workers of the subject 
plant and the workers at the Lyndonville, Vermont facility produced 
products like or directly competitive and for the same customer base. 
The workers of Kennametal Inc., Greenfield Industrial Products Group, 
Lyndonville, Vermont (TA-W-41,616) were certified on September 4, 2002. 
That TAA certification was based on a survey of customer(s) increasing 
their imports of products like or directly competitive with what the 
subject plant produced.

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 Kennametal Inc., Greenfield 
Tap Plant, Greenfield, Massachusetts 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 Kennametal Inc., Greenfield Tap Plant, 
Greenfield, Massachusetts, who became totally or partially separated 
from employment on or after May 14, 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 10th day of February 2003.
Edward A. Tomchick,
Director, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 03-6406 Filed 3-17-03; 8:45 am]
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