DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-39,267

JOHNSTOWN BABBITTING AND MACHINE CO.
SEWARD, PENNSYLVANIA

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 May 14, 2001, in response
to a petition filed on behalf of workers at Johnstown Babbitting
and Machine Co., Seward, Pennsylvania. The workers produced
stainless steel, ductile iron and nickel alloy replacement and high
usage parts for machinery used by the North American steel industry
in the manufacture of steel.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The investigation revealed that the subject firm did not
import stainless steel, ductile iron and nickel alloy replacement
and high usage parts for machinery.
The U.S. Department of Labor conducted a survey of the subject
plant's major declining customers regarding their purchases of
stainless steel, ductile iron and nickel alloy replacement and high
usage parts for machinery used by the North American Steel industry
in the manufacture of steel during the relevant period. No
customer imports of stainless steel, ductile iron and nickel alloy
replacement and high usage parts for machinery were reported during
the relevant period.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of
Johnstown Babbitting and Machine Co., Seward, Pennsylvania, are
denied eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under Section
223 of the Trade Act of 1974.

Signed in Washington, D. C. this 4th day of June 2001.


/s/ Linda G. Poole
_____________________________
LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance