[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 8 (Wednesday, January 12, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2148-2149]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-515]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-74,057]


Specialty Minerals, Inc., Franklin, VA; Notice of Revised 
Determination on Reconsideration

    On June 18, 2010, the Department issued a negative determination 
regarding workers' eligibility to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance 
(TAA) applicable to workers of Specialty Minerals, Inc., Franklin, 
Virginia (the subject firm). The Notice was published

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in the Federal Register on July 1, 2010 (75 FR 38142). On August 19, 
2010, the Department issued a Notice of Negative Determination 
Regarding Application for Reconsideration applicable to workers of the 
subject firm. The Notice was published in the Federal Register on 
August 30, 2010 (75 FR 52989). The workers produced precipitated 
calcium carbonate used in the production of paper.
    In the request for reconsideration, the company official asserted 
that workers of the subject firm are eligible to apply for TAA as 
adversely affected secondary workers because the precipitated calcium 
carbonate was supplied to a ``paper mill'' that employed a worker group 
eligible to apply for TAA and identified the firm covered by TA-W-
72,764 as the primary firm.
    Section 222(c) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, states that 
adversely affected secondary workers must be employed by a firm that is 
a supplier to a firm that employed a worker group who are adversely 
affected primary workers.
    The Notice of Negative Determination Regarding Application for 
Reconsideration was based on the Department's determination that, 
because the workers covered by TA-W-72,764 are certified eligible to 
apply for TAA as adversely affected secondary workers, the criteria of 
Section 222(c) was not met.
    Subsequent to the issuance of the Notice of Negative Determination 
Regarding Application for Reconsideration, the Department issued an 
amended certification of TA-W-72,764 which identified those workers as 
eligible to apply for TAA as primary workers instead of adversely 
affected secondary workers.
    After careful review of previously-submitted information and the 
additional facts obtained on reconsideration, I determine that workers 
of Specialty Minerals, Inc., Franklin, Virginia, who are engaged in 
employment related to the production of precipitated calcium carbonate 
used in the production of paper, meet the worker group certification 
criteria under Section 222(c) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. 2272(c). In 
accordance with Section 223 of the Act, 19 U.S.C. 2273, I make the 
following certification:

    All workers of Specialty Minerals, Inc., Franklin, Virginia, who 
became totally or partially separated from employment on or after 
May 6, 2009, through two years from the date of this revised 
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 22nd day of December 2010.
Del Min Amy Chen,
Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 2011-515 Filed 1-11-11; 8:45 am]
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