DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-41,540

ANVIL INTERNATIONAL, INC.
A SUBSIDIARY OF MUELLER GROUP, INC.
HENDERSON, TENNESSEE

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
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:
(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 May 13, 2002, in response
to a petition filed by a company official on behalf of workers at
Anvil International, Inc., a subsidiary of Mueller Group, Inc.,
Henderson, Tennessee. The workers produced steel pipe nipples.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.


The investigation revealed that the subject firm did not
import steel pipe nipples during the relevant period. Rather, all
production of steel pipe nipples was shifted domestically to a
newly acquired facility in Greencastle, Pennsylvania.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers at Anvil
International, Inc., a subsidiary of Mueller Group, Inc.,
Henderson, Tennessee engaged in employment related to the
production of steel pipe nipples, are denied eligibility to apply
for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of
1974.
Signed in Washington, D.C. this 19th day of July, 2002.



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