ETA Federal Register Notice

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

Volume 64, Number 225, Page 65731-65732

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration
[TA-W-36,563, et al.]

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

    In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 
2273) the Department of Labor issued a Certification of Eligibility to 
Apply for Worker 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 September 
29, 1999 (64 FR 52540).
    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,

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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. adversely affected by increased 
imports.
    The amended notice applicable to TA-W-36,563 is hereby issued as 
follows:

    All workers of Walls Industries, Inc., Merkel Walls Industries, 
Merkel, Texas (TA-W-36,563), Big Smith Division, Miami, Oklahoma 
(TA-W-36,563B) and Sweetwater Walls Industries, Inc., Cutting 
Department, Sweetwater, Texas (TA-W-36,563C) who became totally or 
partially separated from employment on or after July 6, 1998 through 
July 23, 2001 are eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under 
Section 223 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. 99-30465 Filed 11-22-99; 8:45 am]
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