ETA Federal Register Notice

Walls Industries, Inc., Merkel Walls Industries, Merkel, TX, et al.; Amended Certification Regarding Eligibility To Apply for NAFTA Transitional Adjustment Assistance [11/23/1999]

Volume 64, Number 225, Page 65733

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration
[NAFTA-03298, et al.]

 
Walls Industries, Inc., Merkel Walls Industries, Merkel, TX, et 
al.; Amended Certification Regarding Eligibility To Apply for NAFTA 
Transitional Adjustment Assistance

    In accordance with Section 250(a), Subchapter 2, Title II, of the 
Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2273), the Department of Labor 
issued a Certification of Eligibility to Apply for NAFTA Transitional 
Adjustment Assistance on July 23, 1999, applicable to workers of Walls 
Industries, Inc., Merkel Walls Industries, Merkel, Texas. The notice 
was published in the Federal Register on August 11, 1999 (64 FR 43725).
    At the request of the company, the Department reviewed the 
certification for workers of the subject firm. New information shows 
that worker separations occurred at the subject firms' Big Smith 
Division, Miami, Oklahoma location and the Cutting Department, 
Sweetwater, Texas when they closed in October, 1999. Workers at the Big 
Smith Division, Miami, Oklahoma location were engaged in the production 
of insulated clothing. Workers employed in the Cutting Department at 
Sweetwater Walls Industries, Sweetwater, Texas performed cutting 
operations for the subject firm. Based on these new findings, the 
Department is amending the certification to cover workers at the Big 
Smith Division, Miami, Oklahoma and the Cutting Department, Sweetwater, 
Texas locations.
    The intent of the Department's certification is to include all 
workers of Walls Industries, Inc. who were adversely affected by a 
shift of production to Mexico.
    The amended notice applicable to NAFTA--03298 is hereby issued as 
follows:

    All workers of Walls Industries, Inc., Merkel Walls Industries, 
Inc., Merkel, Texas (NAFTA--03298), Big Smith Division, Miami, 
Oklahoma (NAFTA-03298B) and Sweetwater Walls Industries, Inc., 
Cutting Department, Sweetwater, Texas (NAFTA-03298C) who became 
totally or partially separated from employment on or after July 6, 
1998 through July 23, 2001 are eligible to apply for NAFTA-TAA under 
Section 250 of the Trade Act of 1974.

    Signed at Washington, DC this 10th day of November, 1999.
Grant D. Beale,
Program Manager, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 99-30449 Filed 11-22-99; 8:45 am]
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