[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 197 (Thursday, October 13, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 59775]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-5611]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-57,707]


Guardian Manufacturing Company, a Subsidiary of J.P. Industries, 
Willard, OH; Notice of Revised Determination on Reconsideration

    By letter dated September 23, 2005, a worker requested 
administrative reconsideration regarding the Department of Labor's 
Notice of Negative Determination Regarding Eligibility to Apply for 
Worker Adjustment Assistance, applicable to the workers of the subject 
firm.
    A negative determination regarding the subject facility was signed 
on September 6, 2005. The Department's notice will soon be published in 
the Federal Register. The negative determination was based on the 
findings that, during the relevant period, there were no imports of 
butyl rubber gloves by the subject company or its customers and no 
shift of production to a foreign country. The determination also stated 
that the subject company did not lose a contract to a Canadian company 
and that the gloves made by the subject company are not like or 
directly competitive with the gloves made by the Canadian company who 
won the contract.
    To support the request for reconsideration, the petitioner supplied 
additional information regarding the federal contract won by the 
Canadian company.
    During the reconsideration investigation, the Department contacted 
the federal contracting entity and the subject company. The contracting 
entity and a subject company official stated that the subject company 
had placed a bid for the contract but lost to a Canadian company. The 
subject company official also stated that butyl rubber gloves of the 
same thickness perform the same function regardless of the production 
process.

Conclusion

    After careful review of the additional facts obtained on 
reconsideration, I conclude that increased imports of articles like or 
directly competitive with the butyl rubber gloves produced at the 
subject firm, 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 Guardian Manufacturing Company, A Subsidiary of 
J.P. Industries, Willard, Ohio who became totally or partially 
separated from employment on or after July 28, 2004 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 4th day of October 2005.
Elliott S. Kushner,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
 [FR Doc. E5-5611 Filed 10-12-05; 8:45 am]
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