[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 54 (Tuesday, March 22, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14483-14484]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-1242]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-55,898]


Glenshaw Glass Company Glenshaw, PA; Notice of Negative 
Determination on Reconsideration

    On February 1, 2005, the Department issued an Affirmative 
Determination Regarding Application for Reconsideration for the workers 
and former workers of the subject firm. The Department's Notice of 
determination was published in the Federal Register on February 22, 
2005 (70 FR 8638).
    The Department initially denied Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) 
to former workers of Glenshaw Glass Company, Glenshaw, Pennsylvania 
because the ``contributed importantly'' and shift of production group 
eligibility requirements of Section 222(3) of the Trade Act of 1974, as 
amended, were not met. The initial investigation revealed that, during 
the relevant period, the subject company did not import products like 
or directly competitive with glass containers and that the subject 
company did not shift production abroad. The survey conducted by the 
Department of the subject company's major declining customers for the 
periods 2002, 2003, January through September 2003 and January through 
September 2004 revealed no direct imports and a

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negligible amount of indirect imports during the surveyed period.
    The Department determined that the predominate cause of workers' 
separations at the subject company was related to the flood that shut 
down the subject company's furnaces beginning on September 17, 2004.
    In the request for reconsideration, the petitioner inferred that 
imports contributed to the closure of the subject facility.
    During the reconsideration investigation, the Department requested 
additional information from the subject company, including information 
which would enable the Department to conduct an expanded customer 
survey.
    A careful review of the new information obtained during the 
reconsideration investigation revealed that the subject company's 
production level increased January through September 2004 from January 
through September 2003 levels, prior to the flood, and that subject 
company sales to customers increased January through September 2004 
from January through September 2003 levels.

Conclusion

    After reconsideration, I affirm the original notice of negative 
determination of eligibility to apply for worker adjustment assistance 
for workers and former workers of Glenshaw Glass Company, Glenshaw, 
Pennsylvania.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 9th day of March, 2005.
Elliott S. Kushner,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. E5-1242 Filed 3-21-05; 8:45 am]
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