2012-22652. 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 September 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 September 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 5th day of September 2012.

Elliott S. Kushner,

Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.

Appendix—14 TAA Petitions Instituted Between 8/27/12 and 8/31/12

TA-W	Subject firm (petitioners)	Location	Date of institution	Date of petition
81920	Kronotex USA (State/One-Stop)	Barnwell, SC	08/27/12	08/24/12
81921	Schneider Electric (Company)	Cedar Rapids, IA	08/27/12	08/24/12
81922	Cincinnati Bell Telephone (Union)	Cincinnati, OH	08/27/12	08/21/12
81923	General Electric Ohio Lamp Plant (Union)	Warren, OH	08/27/12	08/24/12
81924	Intermec Technologies (Company)	Everett, WA	08/27/12	08/24/12
81925	Oracle America (Workers)	Redwood Shores, CA	08/28/12	08/27/12
81926	Hewlett Packard (formerly known as EDS), Enterprise Business Services, (State/One-Stop)	Pontiac, MI	08/28/12	08/28/12
81927	INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES (Workers)	Poughkeepsie, NY	08/29/12	08/21/12
81928	QEP Company, Inc. (State/One-Stop)	Boca Raton, FL	08/29/12	08/28/12
81929	Joy Global—Franklin Manufacturing Operations (Company)	Franklin, PA	08/29/12	08/25/12
81930	Hydro North America (Union)	Monett, MO	08/30/12	08/29/12
81931	Lamico, Inc. (Lamico Mobility Products, LLC) (Workers)	Oshkosh, WI	08/31/12	08/23/12
81932	The Evercare Company, dba OneCARE (Company)	Alpharetta, GA	08/31/12	08/23/12
81933	Parker Hannifin—Spartan Division (Workers)	New Haven, IN	08/31/12	08/30/12