DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
TA-W-42,040
LOCKHEED MARTIN
DISTRIBUTION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
TULSA, OKLAHOMA

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 separat-
ed;

(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 September 3, 2002, in
response to a petition filed on behalf of workers at Lockheed
Martin, Distribution Technologies, Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The workers at the subject firm were engaged in the
production of letter sorting machines.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The subject firm did not import letter sorting machine
products.
The U.S. Department of Labor conducted a survey of the major
customers of the subject firm regarding their purchases of letter
sorting machines in 2000, 2001, and through the 2002 period of
the investigation. The survey revealed that the respondents did
not import letter sorting machines during the period under
investigation.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of
Lockheed Martin, Distribution Technologies, Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma
are denied eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under
Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.
Signed in Washington, D. C. this 27th day of September, 2002.


/s/Elliott S. Kushner__
ELLIOTT S. KUSHNER
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance