Federal Register, Volume 77 Issue 34 (Tuesday, February 21, 2012)

[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 34 (Tuesday, February 21, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9970-9973]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-3924]

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

Notice of Determinations Regarding Eligibility To Apply for
Worker Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended
(19 U.S.C. 2273) the Department of Labor herein presents summaries of
determinations regarding eligibility to apply for trade adjustment
assistance for workers by (TA-W) number issued during the period of
January 30, 2012 through February 3, 2012.
In order for an affirmative determination to be made for workers of
a primary firm and a certification issued regarding eligibility to
apply for worker adjustment assistance, each of the group eligibility
requirements of Section 222(a) of the Act must be met.
I. Under Section 222(a)(2)(A), the following must be satisfied:
(1) A significant number or proportion of the workers in such
workers' firm have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;
(2) the sales or production, or both, of such firm have decreased
absolutely; and
(3) One of the following must be satisfied:
(A) Imports of articles or services like or directly competitive
with articles produced or services supplied by such firm have
increased;
(B) Imports of articles like or directly competitive with articles
into which one or more component parts produced by such firm are
directly incorporated, have increased;
(C) Imports of articles directly incorporating one or more
component parts produced outside the United States that are like or
directly competitive with imports of articles incorporating one or more
component parts produced by such firm have increased;
(D) Imports of articles like or directly competitive with articles
which are produced directly using services supplied by such firm, have
increased; and
(4) The increase in imports contributed importantly to such
workers' separation or threat of separation and to the decline in the
sales or production of such firm; or
II. Section 222(a)(2)(B) all of the following must be satisfied:
(1) A significant number or proportion of the workers in such
workers' firm have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;
(2) One of the following must be satisfied:
(A) There has been a shift by the workers' firm to a foreign
country in the production of articles or supply of services like or
directly competitive with those produced/supplied by the workers' firm;
(B) There has been an acquisition from a foreign country by the
workers' firm of articles/services that are like or directly
competitive with those produced/supplied by the workers' firm; and
(3) The shift/acquisition contributed importantly to the workers'
separation or threat of separation.
In order for an affirmative determination to be made for adversely
affected workers in public agencies and a certification issued
regarding eligibility to apply for worker adjustment assistance, each
of the group eligibility requirements of Section 222(b) of the Act must
be met.
(1) A significant number or proportion of the workers in the public
agency have become totally or partially separated, or are threatened to
become totally or partially separated;
(2) The public agency has acquired from a foreign country services
like or directly competitive with services which are supplied by such
agency; and
(3) The acquisition of services contributed importantly to such
workers' separation or threat of separation.
In order for an affirmative determination to be made for adversely
affected secondary workers of a firm and a certification issued
regarding eligibility to apply for worker adjustment assistance, each
of the group eligibility requirements of Section 222(c) of the Act must
be met.
(1) A significant number or proportion of the workers in the
workers' firm have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;
(2) The workers' firm is a Supplier or Downstream Producer to a
firm that employed a group of workers who received a certification of
eligibility under Section 222(a) of the Act, and such supply or
production is related to the article or service that was the basis for
such certification; and
(3) Either--
(A) The workers' firm is a supplier and the component parts it
supplied to the firm described in paragraph (2) accounted for at least
20 percent of the production or sales of the workers' firm; or
(B) A loss of business by the workers' firm with the firm described
in paragraph (2) contributed importantly to the workers' separation or
threat of separation.
In order for an affirmative determination to be made for adversely
affected workers in firms identified by the International Trade
Commission and a certification issued regarding eligibility to apply
for worker adjustment assistance, each of the group eligibility
requirements of Section 222(f) of the Act must be met.
(1) The workers' firm is publicly identified by name by the
International Trade Commission as a member of a domestic industry in an
investigation resulting in--
(A) An affirmative determination of serious injury or threat
thereof under section 202(b)(1);
(B) An affirmative determination of market disruption or threat
thereof under section 421(b)(1); or
(C) An affirmative final determination of material injury or threat
thereof under section 705(b)(1)(A) or 735(b)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of
1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671d(b)(1)(A) and 1673d(b)(1)(A));
(2) The petition is filed during the 1-year period beginning on the
date on which--

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(A) A summary of the report submitted to the President by the
International Trade Commission under section 202(f)(1) with respect to
the affirmative determination described in paragraph (1)(A) is
published in the Federal Register under section 202(f)(3); or
(B) Notice of an affirmative determination described in
subparagraph (1) is published in the Federal Register; and
(3) The workers have become totally or partially separated from the
workers' firm within--
(A) The 1-year period described in paragraph (2); or
(B) Notwithstanding section 223(b)(1), the 1-year period preceding
the 1-year period described in paragraph (2).

Affirmative Determinations for Worker Adjustment Assistance

The following certifications have been issued. The date following
the company name and location of each determination references the
impact date for all workers of such determination.
The following certifications have been issued. The requirements of
Section 222(a)(2)(A) (increased imports) of the Trade Act have been
met.

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TA-W No. Subject firm Location Impact date
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80,456.................. Woodinville Lumber, Inc.... Woodinville, WA....... September 15, 2010.
80,530.................. The Timken Company, Altavista, VA......... October 18, 2010.
Altavista Bearing Plant,
2M, PIC and Adecco.
81,015.................. Pageland Screen Printers, Pageland, SC.......... February 13, 2010.
Inc.
81,020.................. Turner & Seymour Torrington, CT........ February 13, 2010.
Manufacturing Company.
81,021.................. Bayer Cropscience, LP, Institute, WV......... February 13, 2010.
Leased Workers: Jacobs
PSG, Middough Assoc,
Adecco, CDI, Becht, etc.
81,022.................. Apex Tool Group, Campbell York, PA.............. February 13, 2010.
Chain Division; On-site
Leased Workers from Adecco.
81,060.................. Rodney Hunt Company........ Orange, MA............ February 13, 2010.
81,073.................. RadiciSpandex Corporation.. Tuscaloosa, AL........ February 13, 2010.
81,073A................. RadiciSpandex Corporation.. Gastonia, NC.......... February 13, 2010.
81,114.................. PlumChoice, Inc., Balance Scarborough, ME....... February 13, 2010.
Staffing and Insight
Global Staffing.
81,167.................. American Lighting Fixture Taunton, MA........... February 13, 2010.
Corporation, d/b/a
Wilshire Manufacturing.
81,196.................. Microfibres, Inc., Rhode Pawtucket, RI......... November 5, 2011.
Island Operations Division.
81,197.................. Hanes Dye & Finishing Butner, NC............ September 12, 2010.
Company, Butner, Branch
0314, Hanes Co., Leggett &
Platt, Hal Muetzel-
Express, etc.
81,200.................. Wausau Paper, Brokaw Mill Brokaw, WI............ February 13, 2010.
(Including On-Site Leased
Workers from ABR
Employment Services).
81,212.................. Sunshine 368, Inc.......... Corona, NY............ February 13, 2010.
81,214.................. Peninsula Plywood Group, Port Angeles, WA...... February 13, 2010.
LLC.
81,221.................. J&M Manufacturing.......... El Paso, TX........... February 13, 2010.
81,233.................. Clarcor Air Filtration Campbellsville, KY.... October 7, 2011.
Products.
81,248.................. Burke Hosiery Mills, Inc... Hickory, NC........... February 19, 2012.
81,260.................. Cinram Distribution, LLC, Aurora, IL............ January 20, 2011.
Cinram International
Income Fund; Good People.
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The following certifications have been issued. The requirements of
Section 222(a)(2)(B) (shift in production or services) of the Trade Act
have been met.

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TA-W No. Subject firm Location Impact date
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80,371.................. PAETEC, f/k/a Cavalier Palm Harbor, FL....... August 12, 2010.
Telephone; Palm Harbor
Division.
80,439.................. Yahoo! Inc................. Hillsboro, OR......... September 15, 2010.
80,502.................. Lexis Nexis, Quality & Miamisburg, OH........ October 6, 2010.
Metrics Division.
81,166.................. AVX Corporation, Myrtle Myrtle Beach, SC...... January 6, 2012.
Beach Complex.
81,166A................. AVX Corporation, Myrtle Conway, SC............ January 6, 2012.
Beach Complex, IHT and
Huff Consulting.
81,174.................. Charles Navasky & Co., Philipsburg, PA....... February 13, 2010.
Inc., d/b/a Don Mart
Clothes, Inc.
81,181.................. Bosch Security Systems, Inc Morrilton, AR......... February 13, 2010.
81,195.................. Boston Scientific.......... Miami, FL............. February 27, 2012.
81,202.................. TE Connectivity, Medical Wilsonville, OR....... February 13, 2010.
Division Customer Service
Unit.
81,209.................. Aplegen, Inc., Including Goleta, CA............ February 13, 2010.
workers whose wages were
reported thru TriNet.
81,220.................. Aetna International, Inc., Tampa, FL............. February 13, 2010.
Aetna Global Benefits,
Including on-site leased
workers from ProcureStaff.
81,230.................. ExpressPoint Technology Minneapolis, MN....... February 13, 2010.
Services, Inc., Operations
Division, Ajilon Staffing,
Aerotek Staffing and Kelly
Services.
81,232.................. Image Scan, LLC, TE East Providence, RI... February 13, 2010.
Connectivity.
81,235.................. Danfoss , LLC.............. Arkadelphia, AR....... September 25, 2011.
81,241.................. Flextronics America LLC.... Charlotte, NC......... July 1, 2011.
81,244.................. International Business Poughkeepsie, NY...... February 13, 2010.
Machines (IBM)
Corporation, Systems &
Technology, Systems
Software Development, Z/OS
Applications, etc.
81,246.................. Peacehealth St. Joseph Bellingham, WA........ February 13, 2010.
Medical Centers, Whatcom
Region, Transcription
Services Division.
81,258.................. DTC Communications, Inc., Nashua, NH............ February 13, 2010.
Subsidiary of Cobham
Survelliance.

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81,266.................. Wells Manufacturing, L.P... Fond du Lac, WI....... January 24, 2011.
81,267.................. Kimball Electronics Tampa, Tampa, FL............. January 25, 2011.
Inc., Kimball Electronics,
Inc.
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The following certifications have been issued. The requirements of
Section 222(c) (supplier to a firm whose workers are certified eligible
to apply for TAA) of the Trade Act have been met.

Negative Determinations for Worker Adjustment Assistance

In the following cases, the investigation revealed that the
eligibility criteria for worker adjustment assistance have not been met
for the reasons specified.
The investigation revealed that the criterion under paragraph
(a)(1), or (b)(1), or (c)(1) (employment decline or threat of
separation) of section 222 has not been met.

The investigation revealed that the criteria under paragraphs
(a)(2)(A)(i) (decline in sales or production, or both) and (a)(2)(B)
(shift in production or services to a foreign country) of section 222
have not been met.

The investigation revealed that the criteria under
paragraphs(a)(2)(A) (increased imports) and (a)(2)(B) (shift in
production or services to a foreign country) of section 222 have not
been met.

Determinations Terminating Investigations of Petitions for Worker
Adjustment Assistance

After notice of the petitions was published in the Federal Register
and on the Department's Web site, as required by Section 221 of the Act
(19 U.S.C. 2271), the Department initiated investigations of these
petitions.
The following determinations terminating investigations were issued
because the petitioner has requested that the petition be withdrawn.

The following determinations terminating investigations were issued
because the petitioning groups of workers are covered by active
certifications. Consequently, further investigation in these cases
would serve no purpose since the petitioning group of workers cannot be
covered by more than one certification at a time.

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I hereby certify that the aforementioned determinations were
issued during the period of January 30, 2012 through February 3,
2012. These determinations are available on the Department's Web
site tradeact/taa/taa search form.cfm under the searchable listing
of determinations or by calling the Office of Trade Adjustment
Assistance toll-free at 888-365-6822.

Dated: February 9, 2012.
Michael W. Jaffe,
Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
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