[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 32 (Thursday, February 18, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8129-8130]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-3971]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
[TA-W-35,156D]
Pluma, Incorporated Rocky Mount, Virginia; Notice of Revised
Determination on Reopening
On December 18, 1998, the Department issued a Negative
Determination Regarding Eligibility to apply for worker adjustment
assistance, applicable to workers and former workers of Pluma,
Incorporated, located in Rocky Mount, Virginia. The notice was
published in the Federal Register on January 25, 1999 (64 FR 3720).
By letter of January 11, 1999, officials of Pluma, Incorporated
submitted information regarding the closure of the subject firm plant
in Rocky Mount, Virginia. Based on this new evidence, the Department
reopened the petition investigation.
The initial investigation resulted in a negative determination
based on the finding that the ``contributed importantly'' test of the
Group Eligibility Requirements of the Trade Act was not met for workers
at the subject firm producing knitted activewear (fleecewear).
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New findings on reopening reveal that sales, production and
employment at Pluma, Incorporated, Rocky Mount, Virginia will decline
to zero with the plant closure beginning April 1999. Company imports of
fleecewear increased in quantity from 1997 to 1998.
Conclusion
After careful consideration of the new facts obtained on reopening,
it is concluded that increased imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles produced by the subject firm contributed
importantly to the decline in sales and to the total or partial
separation of workers of the subject firm. In accordance with the
provisions of the Trade Act of 1974, I make the following revised
determination:
``All workers of Pluma, Incorporated, Rocky Mount, Virginia, who
became totally or partially separated from employment on or after
October 15, 1997, are eligible to apply for adjustment assistance
under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.''
Signed in Washington, DC this 9th day of February 1999.
Grant D. Beale,
Acting Director, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 99-3971 Filed 2-17-99; 8:45 am]
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