[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 17 (Friday, January 25, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4637-4638]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-1284]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-62,271]


Ravenswood Specialty Services, Inc., Ravenswood, WV; Notice of 
Negative Determination Regarding Application for Reconsideration

    By application dated November 29, 2007, the United Steel, Paper and 
Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service 
Workers International Union (the Union) requested administrative 
reconsideration of the Department's negative determination regarding 
eligibility for workers and former workers of Ravenswood Specialty 
Services, Inc., Ravenswood, West Virginia (subject firm) to apply for 
Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) and Alternative Trade Adjustment 
Assistance (ATAA). The negative determination was issued on October 18, 
2007. The Department's Notice of determination was published in the 
Federal Register on October 31, 2007 (72 FR 61686). Workers produce 
nylon polymer and Minlon, and are not separately identifiable by 
related article.
    The petition was denied because the subject firm did not shift 
production to a foreign country, the subject firm did not import nylon 
polymer or Minlon, and the subject firm's major declining customer did 
not import nylon polymer or Minlon during the relevant period.
    In the request for reconsideration, the Union stated that ``the 
workers' separations are due to foreign imports and a shift of 
production to a foreign country. We are in the process of gathering 
further information to help support this position and will forward it 
to your office as soon as possible.''
    Pursuant to 29 CFR 90.18(c), administrative reconsideration may be 
granted under the following circumstances:
    (1) If it appears on the basis of facts not previously considered 
that the determination complained of was erroneous;
    (2) if it appears that the determination complained of was based on 
a mistake in the determination of facts not previously considered; or
    (3) if in the opinion of the Certifying Officer, a 
misinterpretation of facts or of the law justified reconsideration of 
the decision.
    The Union did not supply facts not previously considered; nor 
provide additional documentation indicating that there was either (1) a 
mistake in the determination of facts not previously considered or (2) 
a misinterpretation of facts or of the law justifying reconsideration 
of the initial determination.
    After careful review of the request for reconsideration, the 
Department determines that 29 CFR 90.18(c) has not been met.

Conclusion

    After review of the application and investigative findings, I 
conclude that

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there has been no error or misinterpretation of the law or of the facts 
which would justify reconsideration of the Department of Labor's prior 
decision. Accordingly, the application is denied.

    Signed at Washington, DC this 16th day of January 2008.
 Elliott S. Kushner,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
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