[Federal Register: March 18, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 52)]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-41,399]

 
BBA Nonwovens Simpsonville Inc., Lewisburg, PA; Notice of Revised 
Determination on Reconsideration

    By letter postmarked August 15, 2002, the Paper, Allied-Industrial, 
Chemical and Energy International Workers Union, Local PACE 2-1318, 
requested administrative reconsideration regarding the Department's 
Negative Determination Regarding Eligibility to Apply for Worker 
Adjustment Assistance, applicable to the workers of the subject firm.
    The initial investigation resulted in a negative determination 
issued on July 1, 2002, based on the finding that imports of apparel 
interlinings and disposable diaper components did not contribute 
importantly to worker separations at the Lewisburg plant. The denial 
notice was published in the Federal Register on July 18, 2002 (67 FR 
47399).
    To support the request for reconsideration, the union supplied 
additional information to supplement that which was gathered during the 
initial investigation. Upon further review and contact with the 
company, it was revealed that the company had sold off a major product 
line of apparel interlinings to a manufacturer with foreign production 
capacity.
    In addition, contact with the major declining domestic customer of 
this product revealed that they replaced their purchases of apparel 
interlinings from the subject firm with products from the foreign plant 
during the relevant period. The imports accounted for a meaningful 
portion of the subject plant's lost sales and production.

Conclusion

    After careful review of the additional facts obtained on 
reconsideration, I conclude that increased imports of articles like or 
directly competitive with those produced at BBA Nonwovens Simpsonville 
Inc., Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, contributed importantly to the declines 
in sales or production and to the total or partial separation of 
workers at the subject firm. In accordance with the provisions of the 
Act, I make the following certification:

    ``All workers of BBA Nonwovens Simpsonville Inc., Lewisburg, 
Pennsylvania, who became totally or partially separated from 
employment on or after March 25, 2001 through two years from the 
date of this certification, are eligible to apply for adjustment 
assistance under section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.''

    Signed in Washington, DC this 19th day of February 2003.
Edward A. Tomchick,
Director, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 03-6405 Filed 3-17-03; 8:45 am]

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