DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-38,722

LANCASTER ELECTRO-PLATING
LANCASTER, OHIO


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 sub-
division have decreased absolutely; and

(3) that increases of imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles produced by the firm or ap-
propriate subdivision have contributed importantly to the
separations, or threat thereof, and to the absolute
decline in sales or production.

The investigation was initiated on February 26, 2001, in
response to a petition filed on behalf of workers at Lancaster
Electro-Plating, Lancaster, Ohio. The workers did electroplating.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The subject firm does not send articles outside the country to
be electroplated.
The Department of Labor surveyed major customers of the
subject firm and found that they do not send articles outside the
United States to be electroplated.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of
Lancaster Electro-Plating, Lancaster, Ohio, are denied eligibility
to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade
Act of 1974.

Signed in Washington, D. C. this 19th day of June 2001.

/s/ Edward A. Tomchick

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EDWARD A. TOMCHICK
Director,
Division of Trade Adjustment
Assistance