Federal Register: August 7, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 152)NoticesPage 42437From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

DOCID:fr07au98-147

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

Levi Strauss & Company; 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, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2273), the Department of Labor issued a Certification of Eligibility to Apply for NAFTA Transitional Adjustment Assistance on August 7, 1997, applicable to workers of Levi Strauss and Company, located in El Paso, Texas. The notice was published in the Federal Register on September 17, 1997 (62 FR 48889). The certification was subsequently amended to include the subject firm workers at the El Paso Field Headquarters in El Paso, Texas. The amendment was issued on September 14, 1997 and published in the Federal Register on September 30, 1997 (62 FR 51161).

At the request of the company, the Department reviewed the certification for workers of the subject firm. New information received by the company shows that worker separations for those workers engaged in the manufacture of Dockers have also occurred, as well as separations from companies doing contract work at these Levi Strauss locations. Based on this new information, the Department is amending the certification to cover the subject firm's Docker workers as well as contract workers at the approved Levi Strauss facilities.

The intent of the Department's certification is to include all workers of Levi Strauss and Company, including contract workers, who were adversely affected by increased imports from Mexico.

The amended notice applicable to NAFTA-01807 is hereby issued as follows:

All workers of Levi Strauss and Company, including Dockers and temporary or contract workers at the following facilities, who became totally or partially separated from employment on or after July 9, 1996 through August 7, 1999 are eligible to apply for NAFTA- TAA under Section 250 of the Trade Act of 1974:

NAFTA-01807K SAN FRANCISCO PLANT, San Francisco, CA 94103 NAFTA-01807L BLUE RIDGE PLANT, Blue Ridge, GA 30513 NAFTA-01807M VALDOSTA PLANT, Valdosta, GA 31601 NAFTA-01807N ROSWELL PLANT including RON'S PLACE, Roswell, NM 88201 NAFTA-01807O ALBUQUERQUE PLANT including THE PIT STOP Albuquerque, NM 87113 NAFTA-01807U WARSAW PLANT, Warsaw, VA 22572 NAFTA-01807Y FAYETTEVILLE PLANT including LIFESTYLES, and OFFICE FOR THE BLIND &VISUALLY IMPAIRED OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS, Fayetteville AR NAFTA-01807Z HARRISON PLANT including STAN PARTRIDGE CAFETERIA SERVICES, Harrison, AR NAFTA-01807AB LEVI STRAUSS PRINT SHOP, Miami Lakes, FL.

Signed in Washington, DC this 15th day of April, 1998. Grant D. Beale, Acting Director, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.

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