Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-39,622

UCAR CARBON COMPANY, INC.
CLARKSVILLE PLANT
CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE

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 July 16, 2001 in response to a petition filed by a company official on behalf of workers at UCAR Carbon Company, Inc., Clarksville Plant, Clarksville, Tennessee. The workers produce graphite electrodes.
A petition for the NAFTA Transitional Adjustment Assistance has been filed on behalf of workers at the subject plant (NAFTA - 05052).
This investigation revealed that sales and employment at the subject firm decreased in 2000 as compared with 1999 and is continuing to decline in 2001. The company will partially be closed September 30, 2001.

The investigation also revealed that company imports increased in the 2000 as compared with the same period in 1999 and continued in 2001.
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 graphite electrodes at UCAR Carbon Company, Inc., Clarksville Plant, Clarksville, Tennessee, contributed importantly to the decline in sales and to the total or partial separation of workers of that firm. In accordance with the provisions of the Act, I make the following certification:
"All workers of UCAR Carbon Company, Inc., Clarksville Plant, Clarksville, Tennessee engaged in employment related to the production of graphite electrodes, who became totally or partially separated from employment on or after July 2, 2000, 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 13th day of September, 2001.

/s/ Edward A. Tomchick

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EDWARD A. TOMCHICK
Director, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance