[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 90 (Friday, May 9, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 25661]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-12222]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
[TA-W-32,009]
Chevron Overseas Petroleum, Inc., San Ramon, California; Notice
of Negative Determination on Reconsideration on Remand
The United States Court of International Trade (USCIT) granted the
Secretary of Labor's motion for a voluntary remand for further
investigation in Nelson v. Secretary of Labor, No. 94-10-00630.
The Department's initial denial for the workers of Chevron Overseas
Petroleum, Inc. (COPI), San Ramon, California, issued on March 25, 1996
and published in the Federal Register on April 9, 1996 (61 FR 45,711),
was based on the fact that criterion (3) of the group eligibility
requirements of Section 222 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, was
not met.
The petitioners request for reconsideration resulted in a negative
determination regarding the application which was issued on June 4,
1996 and published in the Federal Register on June 19, 1996 (61 FR
31,165). The Department's findings affirmed that the workers were not
assigned to a domestic operating company producing oil and gas in the
United States.
The petitioners identified the effected worker group as the New
Ventures Business Unit of Chevron Overseas Petroleum, a division of
Chevron U.S.A., Inc. During the initial TAA petition investigation the
company reported that Chevron Overseas Petroleum is a division of
Chevron U.S.A., Inc., which in turn is a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Chevron Corporation.
On remand, the Department contacted the company official to clarify
the link between the work performed by employees of the New Ventures
Business Unit at the Chevron Overseas Petroleum division location in
San Ramon and Chevron's domestic production of oil and gas. Findings
show that the New Ventures Business Unit of COPI is a services based
organization; technical staff dominate the employees of New Ventures
Business Unit. Employees provide drilling, earth science, engineering
and information technology support and services to COPI's overseas
based Business Units. They provide no services for Chevron
Corporation's domestic upstream affiliate.
Other findings on remand show that the customers of the New
Ventures Business Unit of COPI are COPI's Business Units overseas. None
of the work performed by employees of New Ventures Business Unit of
COPI in San Ramon supported Chevron's domestic production of oil and
gas.
Conclusion
After reconsideration on remand, I affirm the original notice of
negative determination of eligibility to apply for adjustment
assistance for workers and former workers of Chevron Overseas
Petroleum, Inc., San Ramon, California.
Signed at Washington, D.C. this 1st day of May 1997.
Russell T. Kile,
Program Manager, Policy and Reemployment Services, Office of Trade
Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 97-12222 Filed 5-8-97; 8:45 am]
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