DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-40,265

MCGHAN MEDICAL
SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA

Certification Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 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. It is determined in this case that all of the requirements have been met.
The investigation was initiated in response to a petition received on October 29, 2001, and filed on behalf of workers at McGhan Medical, Santa Barbara, California. The workers are engaged in employment related to the production of breast implants and tissue expanders. Workers are not separately identifiable by product line.
Sales and employment decreased at the subject firm in January through September of 2001 relative to the corresponding period in 2000 due to increased company imports of breast implants from a foreign facility.


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 breast implants produced at McGhan Medical, Santa Barbara, California, contributed importantly to the decline in sales or production 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 McGhan Medical, Santa Barbara, California, who became totally or partially separated from employment on or after September 29, 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 11th day of December 2001.


/s/ Edward A. Tomchick
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EDWARD A. TOMCHICK
Director, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance