[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 156 (Tuesday, August 13, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 49292]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-19543]



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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-82,473; TA-W-82,473A]


Northshore Mining Company, a Subsidiary of Cliffs Natural 
Resources, Including On-Site Leased Workers From Vanhouse, Express 
Employment and Our Gang Staffing Silver Bay, Minnesota; Northshore 
Mining Company, a Subsidiary of Cliffs Natural Resources, Including On-
Site Leased Workers From Vanhouse, Express Employment and Our Gang 
Staffing Babbitt, Minnesota; Amended Certification Regarding 
Eligibility To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

    In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended 
(``Act''), 19 U.S.C. 2273, the Department of Labor issued a 
Certification of Eligibility to Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance 
on March 11, 2013, applicable to workers of Northshore Miming Company, 
a subsidiary of Cliffs Natural Resources, including on-site leased 
workers from VanHouse and Express Employment, Silver Bay, Minnesota. 
The workers are engaged in activities related to the mining of iron ore 
and production of taconite pellets used to make steel. The notice was 
published in the Federal Register on April 1, 2013 (78 FR 19532).
    At the request of a State agency, the Department reviewed the 
certification for workers of the subject firm. New information from the 
company shows that workers at the Babbitt, Minnesota location mine iron 
ore which is then sent to the Silver Bay, Minnesota facility for 
processing into taconite pellets. The Silver Bay, Minnesota and the 
Babbitt, Minnesota locations experienced worker separations during the 
relevant time period due to a shift in the production of taconite 
pellets to a foreign country. Information also shows that workers 
leased from Our Gang Staffing were employed on-site at the Silver Bay, 
Minnesota and Babbitt, Minnesota locations of Northshore Mining 
Company, a subsidiary of Cliffs Natural Resources. The Department has 
determined that these workers were sufficiently under the control of 
Northshore Mining Company, a subsidiary of Cliffs Natural Resources to 
be considered leased workers.
    Accordingly, the Department is amending the certification to 
include workers of the Babbitt, Minnesota location of the subject firm 
including leased workers from Our Gang Staffing working on-site at the 
Silver Bay, Minnesota and Babbitt, Minnesota locations of the subject 
firm.
    The amended notice applicable to TA-W-82,473 is hereby issued as 
follows:

    All workers from Northshore Mining Company, a subsidiary of 
Cliffs Natural Resources, including on-site leased workers from 
VanHouse, Express Employment and Our Gang Staffing, Silver Bay, 
Minnesota (TA-W-82,473) and Northshore Mining Company, a subsidiary 
of Cliffs Natural Resources, including on-site leased workers from 
VanHouse, Express Employment and Our Gang Staffing, Babbitt, 
Minnesota (TA-W-82,473A), who became totally or partially separated 
from employment on or after February 15, 2012, through March 11, 
2015, 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 at Washington, DC, this 2nd day of August 2013.
Michael W. Jaffe,
Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 2013-19543 Filed 8-12-13; 8:45 am]
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