DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-38,293

DRESSER-RAND
PAINTED POST, NEW YORK

Negative Determination Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19
USC 2273) as amended by the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act
of 1988 (P. L. 100-418), the Department of Labor herein presents
the results of an investigation regarding certification of eligi-
bility to apply for worker adjustment assistance.
In order to make an affirmative determination and issue a
certification of eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance,
each of the group eligibility requirements of Section 222 of the
Act must be met:
(1) that a significant number or proportion of the workers
in the workers' firm, or an appropriate subdivision
thereof, have become totally or partially separated, or
are threatened to become totally or partially
separated;

(2) that sales or production, or both, of the firm or
subdivision have decreased absolutely; and

(3) that increases of imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles produced by the firm or
appropriate subdivision have contributed importantly to
the separations, or threat thereof, and to the absolute
decline in sales or production.
The investigation was initiated on November 6, 2000, in
response to a petition filed on behalf of workers at Dresser-
Rand, Painted Post, New York. The workers produced reciprocating
compressors.

The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The subject firm did not import reciprocating compressors
from abroad.
The Department surveyed major customers of the subject firm
regarding their purchases of reciprocating compressors in the
1998, 1999 and January through October, 1999-2000, time periods.
Results of the survey indicated that customers did not import the
product in this investigation during the relevant periods.
Conclusion

After careful review, I determine that all workers of
Dresser-Rand, Painted Post, New York, are denied eligibility to
apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade
Act of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D. C. this 10th day of January, 2001.

/s/ Linda G. Poole

LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance