[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 87 (Friday, May 5, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26565-26566]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-6814]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-57,582 and TA-W-57,582B]


EPEC, LLC, New Bedford, MA; EPEC, LLC, Bethel, CT; Amended Notice 
of Certification Regarding Eligibility To Apply for Worker Adjustment 
Assistance and Negative Determination Regarding Eligibility To Apply 
for Alternative Trade Adjustment Assistance

    In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 
2273), and Section 246 of the Trade Act of 1974 (26 U.S.C. 2813), as 
amended, the Department of Labor issued a Certification Regarding 
Eligibility to Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance and a Negative 
Determination Regarding Eligibility to Apply for Alternative Trade 
Adjustment Assistance on August 16, 2005, applicable to workers of 
EPEC, LLC, New Bedford, Massachusetts. The notice was published in the 
Federal Register on September 8, 2005 (70 FR 53390).
    At the request of a company official and the State agency, the 
Department reviewed the certification for workers of the subject firm. 
New information shows that worker separations have occurred involving 
employees of the New Bedford, Massachusetts facility of EPEC, LLC 
located in Bethel, Connecticut. The Bethel Connecticut workers provide 
support function services for the production of printed circuit boards 
at the New Bedford, Massachusetts location of the subject firm.
    Based on these findings, the Department is amending this 
certification to include employees of the New Bedford, Massachusetts 
facility of EPEC, LLC located in Bethel, Connecticut.
    The intent of the Department's certification is to include all 
workers of EPEC, LLC, New Bedford,

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Massachusetts, who were adversely affected by imports.
    The amended notice applicable to TA-W-57,582 is hereby issued as 
follows:

    All workers of EPEC, LLC, New Bedford, Massachusetts (TA-W-
57,582), including employees of EPEC, LLC, New Bedford, 
Massachusetts located in Bethel, Connecticut (TA-W-57,582B), who 
became totally or partially separated from employment on or after 
July 15, 2004, through August 16, 2007, are eligible to apply for 
adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974;

and I further determine that all workers of EPEC, LLC, New Bedford, 
Massachusetts (TA-W-57,582), including employees of EPEC, LLC, New 
Bedford, Massachusetts located in Bethel, Connecticut (TA-W-57,582B), 
are denied eligibility to apply for alternative trade adjustment 
assistance under Section 246 of the Trade Act of 1974.

    Signed at Washington, DC this 20th day of April 2006.
Linda G. Poole,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. E6-6814 Filed 5-4-06; 8:45 am]
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