[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 40 (Tuesday, March 2, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 9442]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-4249]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-72,231]


Lonza, Inc., Riverside Plant, Lonza Exclusive Synthesis Section, 
Custom Manufacturing Division, Including On-Site Leased Workers From 
Lab Support, Aerotek, Job Exchange, and Synerfac, Conshohocken, PA; 
Notice of Revised Determination on Reconsideration

    On December 23, 2009, the Department issued an Affirmative 
Determination Regarding Application for Reconsideration applicable to 
workers and former workers of the subject firm. The notice of 
affirmative determination was published in the Federal Register on 
January 6, 2010 (75 FR 878).
    The initial investigation, initiated on September 8, 2009, resulted 
in a negative determination, issued on November 5, 2009, that was based 
on the finding that imports did not contribute importantly to worker 
separations at the subject firm and no shift in production to a foreign 
country occurred. The notice of negative determination was published in 
the Federal Register on January 25, 2010 (75 FR 3935).
    To support the request for reconsideration, the petitioner supplied 
additional information to supplement that which was gathered during the 
initial investigation.
    During the reconsideration investigation, the Department carefully 
reviewed new information provided by the petitioner and contacted the 
company official for additional information and clarification of 
previously-submitted information.
    The reconsideration investigation revealed that the subject firm is 
shifting production of articles like or directly competitive with cGMP 
intermediates and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients from the subject 
facility to a foreign country and that this shift on production 
contributed importantly to worker separations during the relevant 
period.

Conclusion

    After careful review of the additional facts obtained on 
reconsideration, I determine that workers of Lonza, Inc., Riverside 
Plant, Lonza Exclusive Synthesis Section, Custom Manufacturing 
Division, including on-site leased workers of Lab Support, Aerotek, Job 
Exchange, and Synerfac, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, who are engaged in 
employment related to the production of cGMP intermediates and Active 
Pharmaceutical Ingredients, meet the worker group certification 
criteria under Section 222(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. 2272(a). In 
accordance with Section 223 of the Act, 19 U.S.C. 2273, I make the 
following certification:

    All workers of Lonza, Inc., Riverside Plant, Lonza Exclusive 
Synthesis Section, Custom Manufacturing Division, including on-site 
leased workers of Lab Support, Aerotek, Job Exchange, and Synerfac, 
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, who are engaged in employment related to 
the production of cGMP intermediates and Active Pharmaceutical 
Ingredients, who became totally or partially separated from 
employment on or after September 2, 2008, through two years from the 
date of this certification, and all workers in the group threatened 
with total or partial separation from employment on date of 
certification through two years from the date of certification, are 
eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under Chapter 2 of Title 
II of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended.


    Signed in Washington, DC, this 2nd day of February, 2010.
Del Min Amy Chen,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 2010-4249 Filed 3-1-10; 8:45 am]
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