DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-42,143,

DANA CORPORATION
PERFECT CIRCLE DIVISION
HASTINGS, NEBRASKA

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 eli-
gibility 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 sub-
division have decreased absolutely; and

(3) that increases of imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles produced by the firm or ap-
propriate subdivision have contributed importantly to the
separations, or threat thereof, and to the absolute
decline in sales or production.

The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
received on September 16, 2002, filed by the company on behalf of
workers at The Dana Corporation, Perfect Circle Division, Hastings,
Nebraska. The workers produced piston rings.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The preponderance in the declines in employment at the subject
plant is related to a shift in plant production of piston rings to
affiliated domestic and foreign sources. However, the foreign
source(s) are not scheduled to ship the piston rings back to the
United States until mid-December 2002, beyond the relevant period
of the investigation.
A petition for NAFTA-Transitional Adjustment Assistance has
been filed on behalf of workers at the subject firm (NAFTA-6509).
A determination on that petition will be made concurrently with
this determination.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of Dana
Corporation, Perfect Circle Division, Hastings, Nebraska are denied
eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of
the Trade Act of 1974.

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



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