2013-10110. Investigations Regarding Eligibility To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

Petitions have been filed with the Secretary of Labor under Section 221(a) of the Trade Act of 1974 (“the Act”) and are identified in the Appendix to this notice. Upon receipt of these petitions, the Director of the Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance, Employment and Training Administration, has instituted investigations pursuant to Section 221(a) of the Act.

The purpose of each of the investigations is to determine whether the workers are eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under Title II, Chapter 2, of the Act. The investigations will further relate, as appropriate, to the determination of the date on which total or partial separations began or threatened to begin and the subdivision of the firm involved.

The petitioners or any other persons showing a substantial interest in the subject matter of the investigations may request a public hearing, provided such request is filed in writing with the Director, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance, at the address shown below, not later than May 10, 2013.

Interested persons are invited to submit written comments regarding the subject matter of the investigations to the Director, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance, at the address shown below, not later than May 10, 2013.

The petitions filed in this case are available for inspection at the Office of the Director, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, Room N-5428, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210.

Signed at Washington, DC, this 10th day of April 2013.

Elliott S. Kushner,

Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.

Appendix

17 TAA petitions instituted between 4/1/13 and 4/5/13

TA-W	Subject firm (petitioners)	Location	Date of institution	Date of petition
82618	Covidien, Formerly Known as Tyco Healthcare (State/One-Stop)	Chicopee, MA	04/01/13	03/28/13
82619	Connextions—Olympus Technical Support (Workers)	Concord, NC	04/01/13	04/01/13
82620	Hewlett-Packard Software Business Unit (State/One-Stop)	Andover, MA	04/01/13	03/29/13
82621	Lionbridge Technologies (State/One-Stop)	Vancouver, WA	04/01/13	03/15/13
82622	ETI Precision Corp (Company)	Gordonsville, TN	04/02/13	04/01/13
82623	Advanced Solar Photonics (ASP) (State/One-Stop)	Lake Mary, FL	04/03/13	04/02/13
82624	Heraeus Materials Technology LLC (Company)	Chandler, AZ	04/03/13	03/26/13
82625	CDI Corporation (Company)	Virginia Beach, VA	04/04/13	04/03/13
82626	General Motors (Union)	Flint, MI	04/04/13	04/03/13
82627	Imation (State/One-Stop)	Oakdale, MN	04/04/13	04/03/13
82628	Archetype Design, LLC (State/One-Stop)	Huntington Park, CA	04/05/13	04/03/13
82629	Boeing Information Technology Infrastructure (State/One-Stop)	Bellevue, WA	04/05/13	04/03/13
82630	Astromed, Inc. Grass Technologies Division (Company)	Rockland, MA	04/05/13	04/03/13
82631	Humana Insurance Company (Workers)	DePere, WI	04/05/13	04/04/13
82632	Mass Design Incorporated (Company)	Nashua, NH	04/05/13	04/01/13
82633	AK Steel—Zanesville Works (Union)	Zanesville, OH	04/05/13	03/21/13
82634	Prudential Financial (Workers)	Newark, NJ	04/05/13	04/04/13