Lone Star Steel Co. Including Workers of Martin Marietta, Lone Star, Texas; Amended Certification Regarding Eligibility to Apply for NAFTA-Transitional Adjustment Assistance

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 64 (Monday, April 5, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16483-16484]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-8305]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration
[NAFTA-02563]


Lone Star Steel Co. Including Workers of Martin Marietta, Lone 
Star, Texas; Amended Certification Regarding Eligibility to Apply for 
NAFTA-Transitional Adjustment Assistance

    In accordance with section 250(A), Subchapter D, Chapter 2, Title 
II, of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 USC 2273), the Department of Labor 
issued a Certification for NAFTA Transitional Adjustment Assistance of 
September 2, 1998, applicable to all workers of Lone Star Steel Company 
located in Lone Star, Texas. The notice was published in the Federal 
Register on September 28, 1998 (63 FR 51606).
    At the request of the State agency, the Department reviewed the 
certification for workers of the subject firm. The

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workers are engaged in the production of steel slabs. New information 
shows that some workers separated from employment at Lone Star Steel 
Company had their wages reported under a separate unemployment 
insurance (UI) tax account for Martin Marietta. Workers from Martin 
Marietta repair and maintain slab furnaces used in the production of 
steel slabs at the Lone Star, Texas location of Lone Star Steel 
Company. Worker separations occurred at Martin Marietta as a result of 
worker separations at Lone Star Steel Company.
    Based on these findings, the Department is amending the 
certification to include workers of Martin Marietta, Lone Star, Texas 
who were engaged in employment related to the production of steel slabs 
at Lone Star Steel Company, Lone Star, Texas.
    The intent of the Department's certification is to include all 
workers of Lone Star Steel Company who were adversely affected by the 
shift of production to Mexico.
    The amended notice applicable to NAFTA--02563 is hereby issued as 
follows:

    ``All workers of Lone Star Steel Company, Lone Star, Texas 
engaged in employment related to the production of steel slabs and 
all workers of Martin Marietta, Lone Star, Texas engaged in 
employment related to repairing and maintaining slab furnaces for 
the production of steel slabs at Lone Star Steel Company, Lone Star, 
Texas who became totally or partially separated from employment on 
or after August 6, 1997 through September 2, 2000 are eligible to 
apply for NAFTA-TAA under section 250 of the Trade Act of 1974.''

    Signed at Washington, DC this 22nd day of March, 1999.
Grant D. Beale,
Acting Director, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance, Office of Trade 
Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 99-8305 Filed 4-2-99; 8:45 am]
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