99-25296. Power Exploration, Incorporated, Tyler, Texas; Notice of Negative Determination Regarding Application for Reconsideration

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 188 (Wednesday, September 29, 1999)]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration
[TA-W-36,497]


Power Exploration, Incorporated, Tyler, Texas; Notice of Negative 
Determination Regarding Application for Reconsideration

    By application dated August 3, 1999, the petitioners requested 
administrative reconsideration of the Department's negative 
determination regarding eligibility to apply for Trade Adjustment 
Assistance (TAA), applicable to workers and former workers of the 
subject firm. The denial notice was signed on July 26, 1999, and 
published in the Federal Register on August 11, 1999 (64 FR 43723).
    Pursuant to 29 CFR 90.18(c) reconsideration may be granted under 
the following circumstances:
    (1) If it appears on the basis of facts not previously considered 
that the determination complained of was erroneous;
    (2) If it appears that the determination complained of was based on 
a mistake in the determination of facts not previously considered; or
    (3) If in the opinion of the Certifying Officer, a 
misinterpretation of facts or of the law justified reconsideration of 
the decision.
    The TAA petition, filed on behalf of workers of Power Exploration, 
Incorporated, Tyler, Texas, engaged in geological studies was denied 
because the workers provided a service and did not produce an article 
as required in Section 222(3) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended.
    The petitioners assert that the worker group provided a number of 
different articles and products and provided oil and gas exploration 
expertise to a number of different companies and clients in the oil and 
gas industry.
    Workers at the subject firm, however, are engaged in employment 
related to the acquisition, processing and marketing of seismic data.

Conclusion

    After review of the application and investigative findings, I 
conclude that there has been no error or misinterpretation of the law 
or of the facts which would justify reconsideration of the Department 
of Labor's prior decisions. Accordingly, the application is denied.

    Signed at Washington, D.C. this 17th day of September 1999.
Grant D. Beale,
Program Manager, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 99-25296 Filed 9-28-99; 8:45 am]
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