[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 142 (Monday, July 26, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 43565]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-18186]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-71,494]


Johns Manville; Engineered Products Division, Including On-Site 
Leased Workers From Volt Workforce Solutions; Spartanburg, SC; Notice 
of Revised Determination on Reconsideration

    By application dated May 2, 2010, a petitioner requested 
administrative reconsideration of the negative determination applicable 
to the subject firm. The determination was based on the Department's 
finding that neither increased imports nor a shift in production to a 
foreign country contributed importantly to worker separations at the 
subject firm. The workers are engaged in employment related to the 
production of polyester non-woven fabric. The negative determination 
was issued on April 16, 2010. The Department's Notice of negative 
determination was published in the Federal Register on May 20, 2010 (75 
FR 28301).
    In the request for reconsideration, the petitioner alleged that 
increased production at an affiliated facility in China caused the loss 
of business at the Spartanburg, South Carolina facility.
    Based on additional information provided by the subject firm during 
the reconsideration investigation, the Department determines that the 
subject firm has shifted to a foreign country the production of 
articles like or directly competitive with the polyester non-woven 
fabric produced at the subject facility and that the shift of 
production to China contributed importantly to worker separations at 
the Spartanburg, South Carolina facility.

Conclusion

    After careful review of the additional facts obtained on 
reconsideration, I determine that workers of Johns Manville, Engineered 
Products Division, Spartanburg, South Carolina, who are engaged in 
employment related to the production of polyester non-woven fabric, 
meet the worker group certification criteria under Section 222(a) of 
the Act, 19 U.S.C. 2272(a). In accordance with Section 223 of the Act, 
19 U.S.C. 2273, I make the following certification:

    All workers of Johns Manville, Engineered Products Division, 
including on-site leased workers from Volt Workforce Solutions, 
Spartanburg, South Carolina, who became totally or partially 
separated from employment on or after June 23, 2008, through two 
years from the date of this certification, 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 in Washington, DC, this 9th day of July 2010.
Del Min Amy Chen,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 2010-18186 Filed 7-23-10; 8:45 am]
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