[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 245 (Monday, December 22, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 76387]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-29824]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-85,013]


TRW Integrated Chassis Systems, LLC, North American Braking 
Division, a Subsidiary of TRW Automotive, Including On-Site Leased 
Workers From Adecco and DM Burr, Saginaw, Michigan; Notice of Negative 
Determination Regarding Application for Reconsideration

    By application dated October 15, 2014, the United Automobile 
Workers (UAW), Local Union 467, requested administrative 
reconsideration of the Department of Labor's negative determination 
regarding eligibility to apply for worker adjustment assistance, 
applicable to workers and former workers of TRW Integrated Chassis 
Systems, LLC, North American Braking Division, a subsidiary of TRW 
Automotive, Saginaw, Michigan (subject firm). The subject firm is 
engaged in activities related to the production of rotor and knuckle 
components and brake corners. The subject worker group includes on-site 
leased workers from Adecco and DM Burr.
    The denial notice was signed on February 26, 2014, and the Notice 
of Determination was published in the Federal Register on October 29, 
2014 (79 FR 64415).
    Pursuant to 29 CFR 90.18(c) reconsideration may be granted under 
the following circumstances:
    (1) If it appears on the basis of facts not previously considered 
that the determination complained of was erroneous;
    (2) If it appears that the determination complained of was based on 
a mistake in the determination of facts not previously considered; or
    (3) If in the opinion of the Certifying Officer, a mis- 
interpretation of facts or of the law justified reconsideration of the 
decision.
    The negative determination was based on the Department's findings 
that the subject firm did not shift the production of articles like or 
directly competitive with rotor and knuckle components and brake 
corners to a foreign country; that imports of articles like or directly 
competitive with the rotor and knuckle components and brake corners did 
not contribute importantly to the workers' separation or threat of 
separation and to the decline in sales or production of the firm; and 
that the subject firm is not 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, 19 U.S.C. 2272(a).
    In the request for reconsideration, the UAW asserts that the 
workers of the subject firm should be eligible for TAA because industry 
imports into the United States increased in the first quarter of 2014. 
The UAW, however, did not provide new information pertaining to 2012 
and 2013, which are the time periods under investigation. 29 CFR 90
    The petitioner did not supply facts not previously considered; nor 
provide additional documentation indicating that there was either (1) a 
mistake in the determination of facts not previously considered or (2) 
a misinterpretation of facts or of the law justifying reconsideration 
of the initial determination. Based on these findings, the Department 
determines that 29 CFR 90.18(c) has not been met.

Conclusion

    After careful review of the application and investigative findings, 
I conclude that there has been no error or misinterpretation of the law 
or of the facts which would justify reconsideration of the Department 
of Labor's prior decision. Accordingly, the application is denied.

    Signed in Washington, DC, this 9th day of December, 2014.
Michael W. Jaffe,
Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 2014-29824 Filed 12-19-14; 8:45 am]
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