DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-38,899

FEDERAL MOGUL CORP.
POWERTRAIN DIVISION
MALDEN, MISSOURI


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 March 26, 2001, in response
to a petition filed by United Auto Workers Local 43 on behalf of
workers at Federal Mogul Corp., Powertrain Division, Malden,
Missouri. The workers produced pistons for automobile engines.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The subject firm does not import pistons for automobile
engines.
The Department of Labor surveyed a major customer of the
subject firm. That survey revealed that the customer does not
import pistons for automobiles.
A petition for NAFTA Transitional Adjustment Assistance has
been filed on behalf of workers at the subject firm (NAFTA 4662).
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of Federal
Mogul Corp., Powertrain Division, Malden, Missouri, are denied
eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of
the Trade Act of 1974.

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

/s/ Linda G. Poole

LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer
Division of Trade Adjustment
Assistance