DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-38,480
DELEVAN SPRAY TECHNOLOGIES
MONROE, NORTH CAROLINA

Certification 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. It is determined in this case that all of the
requirements have been met.
The investigation was initiated on December 26, 2000, and
filed by a company official on behalf of workers at Delevan Spray
Technologies, Monroe, North Carolina. The workers produce
industrial and agricultural spray nozzles.
This investigation revealed that sales, employment and
production declined during the period of this investigation.
Further findings of the investigation revealed that the
subject firm is increasingly relying on purchases of industrial
and agricultural spray nozzles from abroad.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the investi-
gation, I conclude that increases of imports of articles like or
directly competitive with industrial and agricultural spray
nozzles produced at Delevan Spray Technologies, Monroe, North
Carolina, contributed importantly to the decline in sales or
production and to the total or partial separation of workers of
the subject firm. In accordance with the provisions of the Act,
I make the following certification:
"All workers of Delevan Spray Technologies, Monroe, North
Carolina, who became totally or partially separated from
employment on or after December 26, 1999, through two years
from the date of certification are eligible to apply for
adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of
1974."

Signed in Washington, D. C. this 30th day of January, 2001.



/s/ Linda G. Poole


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