DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-39,036

NOOTER FABRICATORS, INC.
ST. LOUIS, 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
eligibility 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 April 16, 2001 in response
to a petition filed by a company official on behalf of workers at
Nooter Fabricators, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri. The workers produce
steel plate pressure vessels.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
Nooter Fabricators does not import steel plate pressure
vessels like those produced at the St. Louis facility.
The Department of Labor conducted a survey of firms to which
Nooter Fabricators submitted bids for vessel production. In most
cases contracts were awarded domestically. In no case was the
subject firm the lowest domestic bidder in a situation in which the
contract was awarded to a firm producing abroad and currently
importing into the United States.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of Nooter
Fabricators, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri, are denied eligibility to
apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act
of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D. C. this 20th day of August, 2001

/s/ Linda G. Poole


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