[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 43 (Tuesday, March 5, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 14361]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-04948]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-82,285]


U.S. Steel Tubular Products, Inc., Mckeesport Tubular Operations 
Division, Subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation, Mckeesport, 
PA; Notice of Initiation of Investigation To Terminate Certification of 
Eligibility

    Pursuant to Section 221 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, an 
investigation was initiated in response to a petition for Trade 
Adjustment Assistance (TAA) filed on December 20, 2012 on behalf of 
workers of U.S. Steel Tubular Products, McKeesport Tubular Operations 
Division, Subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation, McKeesport, 
Pennsylvania (subject firm). The workers' firm produces steel drill 
pipe and drill collars.
    On January 28, 2013, the Department issued a certification stating 
that the criteria set forth in Section 222(e) of the Trade Act of 1974, 
as amended, was met.
    A review of the determination and the petition, however, revealed 
that the certification was erroneously issued. Specifically, the 
determination inaccurately stated that the petition was filed within a 
year of the March 3, 2011 publication in the Federal Register of the 
International Trade Commission's finding that dumping of drill pipes 
and drill collars from China negatively impacted U.S. firms engaged in 
production of those articles.
    Although the subject firm was publicly identified by name by the 
International Trade Commission as a member of a domestic industry in an 
investigation resulting in a category of determination that is listed 
in Section 222(e) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. 2272(e), the petition was filed 
more than a year after the publication of the ITC's findings in the 
Federal Register.
    The Department will conduct an investigation to determine whether 
or not the petitioning worker group has met the criteria set forth in 
Section 222(a) or (b) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, and will 
issue a determination accordingly.

    Signed in Washington, DC, this 15th day of February, 2013.
 Del Min Amy Chen,
Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 2013-04948 Filed 3-4-13; 8:45 am]
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