2012-19915. 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 August 24, 2012.

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 August 24, 2012.

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 8th day of August 2012.

Elliott S. Kushner,

Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.

Appendix

21 TAA Petitions Instituted Between 7/30/12 and 8/3/12

TA-W	Subject firm (petitioners)	Location	Date of institution	Date of petition
81833	Onsite Innovations, Inc. (State/One-Stop)	Sparrows Point, MD	07/30/12	07/27/12
81834	Aperia Solutions, Inc. (Workers)	Dallas, TX	07/30/12	07/27/12
81835	Auto Warehousing Company (State/One-Stop)	Woodhaven, MI	07/31/12	07/30/12
81836	THQ, Inc. (Workers)	Phoenix, AZ	07/31/12	07/26/12
81837	Avid Technologies, Inc. (State/One-Stop)	Burlington, MA	07/31/12	07/30/12
81838	FLSMIDTH INC. (State/One-Stop)	Spokane, WA	08/01/12	07/20/12
81839	Swisher International (Union)	Jacksonville, FL	08/01/12	07/31/12
81840	Sykes Enterprise (Workers)	Langhorne, PA	08/01/12	07/31/12
81841	Heidtman Steel Products (State/One-Stop)	Baltimore, MD	08/01/12	08/01/12
81842	MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. (Company)	Sherman, TX	08/01/12	07/31/12
81843	HTC Corporation (State/One-Stop)	Durham, NC	08/01/12	07/18/12
81844	NCO Financial Systems (Workers)	Norcross, GA	08/01/12	07/17/12
81845	Herman Miller (State/One-Stop)	Zeeland, MI	08/02/12	07/31/12
81846	Goodman Networks, Inc. (Workers)	Alpharetta, GA	08/02/12	07/31/12
81847	Transform Manufacturing, LLC (Company)	Nampa, ID	08/02/12	08/02/12
81848	Mohawk Industries, Inc. (State/One-Stop)	Calhoun Falls, SC	08/02/12	08/01/12
81849	Astar USA, LLC (Union)	Florence, KY	08/02/12	07/31/12
81850	Brunswick/Hatteras Yachts (CA50) (Workers)	New Bern, NC	08/03/12	07/26/12
81851	Thermo Fisher Scientific (Lab Works Division) (Union)	Two Rivers, WI	08/03/12	08/01/12
81852	Microsemi Corporation—Massachusetts (State/One-Stop)	Lawrence, MA	08/03/12	08/01/12
81853	GrafTech USA LLC (Company)	St. Marys, PA	08/03/12	08/02/12