DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-40,527

CLEARWATER FOREST INDUSTRIES, INC.
KOOSKIA, IDAHO


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
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 January 7, 2002 in
response to a petition filed by a company official on behalf of
all workers at Clearwater Forest Industries, Inc., Kooskia,
Idaho.
The workers are engaged in employment related to the produc-
tion of softwood dimensional lumber.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The investigation revealed that the subject company did not
import softwood dimensional lumber during the relevant time
period.
The petitioner alleges that the predominant cause of the
worker separations at the subject company was the increased
import levels of Canadian softwood lumber.
Aggregate data indicate no significant increase of imports
from Canada of softwood lumber during the relevant time period.
Currently, there is a NAFTA-TAA petition investigation
pending on behalf of workers at the subject company, NAFTA-5706.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of
Clearwater Forest Industries, Inc., Kooskia, Idaho, are denied
eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223
of the Trade Act of 1974.

Signed in Washington, D.C. this 16th day April 2002.


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