DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-40,876

SPRINGFIELD PRECISION INSTRUMENTS, INC.
WOOD-RIDGE, NEW JERSEY

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 March 4, 2002 in response
to a petition filed on behalf of workers at Springfield Precision
Instruments, Inc., Wood-Ridge, New Jersey. The workers produce
thermometers, timers and weather instruments.
A petition for NAFTA Transitional Adjustment Assistance has
not been filed on behalf of workers at the subject plant.
This investigation revealed that production and employment
at the subject firm decreased in 2001 as compared with 2000 and
in the period of January-February 2002 as compared with the same
period in 2001.


The investigation also revealed that company imports of
thermometers, timers and weather instruments increased from 2000
to 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 thermometers, timers and weather
instruments produced at Springfield Precision Instruments, Inc.,
Wood-Ridge, New Jersey, 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 Springfield Precision Instruments, Inc.,
Wood-Ridge, New Jersey, who became totally or partially
separated from employment on or after October 25, 2000,
through two years from the date of certification are eligi-
ble to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of
the Trade Act of 1974."

Signed in Washington, D. C. this 30th day of April, 2002.

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