[Federal Register: September 17, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 180)]
[Notices]               
[Page 54491-54492]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-37,240]

 
Chevron Products Company, Roosevelt, Utah; Notice of Revised 
Determination On Reopening

    The Department of Labor reopened the petition investigation for 
workers of the subject firm.
    The TAA petition filed with the Department on behalf of workers of 
Chevron Products Company, Roosevelt, Utah, was initiated on February 4, 
2000. The petition investigation concluded that the subject firm did 
not produce an article and therefore its workers were not eligible for 
certification. The negative determination was issued on February 17, 
2000, and published in the Federal Register on March 17, 2000 (65 FR 
12647).
    However, the Department determines on reopening that because 
Chevron Products Company, Roosevelt, Utah is a wholly owned subsidiary 
of Chevron USA Production Company, the Department finds that the 
workers' firm is actually Chevron USA Production Company. The two firms 
constituted an integrated production process the final products of 
which are crude oil and natural gas. The Department, on July 6, 1999, 
issued a certification of eligibility for that inquiry and the inquiry 
into whether the workers qualify as secondary workers under the 
Statement of Administrative Action. Since the workers were a part of a 
firm which produces an article, crude oil and natural gas, under 
Labor's existing rules, the characterization of the workers as 
production or service workers becomes irrelevant because that 
distinction only arises in cases where the workers are employed by 
separate firms. Similarly, since the workers are part of the firm that 
produced the article, they cannot be

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secondary workers, who, by definition, are employed by separate firms.

Conclusion

    After careful consideration of the new facts obtained on reopening, 
it is concluded that increased imports of articles like or directly 
competitive with crude oil produced by Chevron USA Production and its 
affiliate Chevron Products Company, Roosevelt, Utah, contributed 
importantly to the decline in sales or production and to the total or 
partial separation of workers of the subject firm.
    In accordance with the provisions of the Trade Act of 1974, I make 
the following revised determination:

    ``All workers of Chevron Products Company, Roosevelt, Utah, who 
became totally or partially separated from employment on or after 
January 4, 1999, through two years from the date of certification, 
are eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under section 223 of 
the Trade Act of 1974.''

    Signed in Washington, DC this 2nd day of September 2003.
Richard Church,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 03-23710 Filed 9-16-03; 8:45 am]

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