DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-70,746

TIGHTLINE LOGGING
POTOMAC, MONTANA


Certification Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, as
amended ("Act"), 19 U.S.C. § 2273, the Department of Labor
herein presents the results of an investigation regarding
certification of eligibility to apply for worker adjustment
assistance.
The group eligibility requirements for workers of a firm
under Section 222(c) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(c), can be
satisfied if the following criteria are met:
I. a significant number or proportion of the workers in
the workers' firm or an appropriate subdivision of the
firm have become totally or partially separated, or
are threatened to become totally or partially
separated;

II. the workers' firm is a Supplier or Downstream Producer
to a firm that employed a group of workers who
received a certification of eligibility under Section
222(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a), and such
supply or production is related to the article or
service that was the basis for such certification; and

III. either
(A) the workers' firm is a supplier and the component
parts it supplied to the firm described in paragraph
(2) accounted for at least 20 percent of the
production or sales of the workers' firm; or
(B) a loss of business by the workers' firm with the firm
described in paragraph (2) contributed importantly to
the workers' separation or threat of separation.

Section 222(d) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(d), defines the
term "Supplier" as "a firm that produces and supplies directly
to another firm component parts for articles, or in the supply
of services, as the case may be, that were the basis for a
certification of eligibility under subsection (a) [of Section
222 of the Act] of a group of workers employed by such other
firm."
The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on May 29, 2009 by a company official on behalf of
workers of Tightline Logging, Potomac, Montana. The workers are
engaged in falling timber and logging. The petitioner alleged
that the subject firm has experience a substantial loss of
sales to a TAA certified firm.
The investigation revealed that workers of Tightline
Logging, who are engaged in employment related to falling
timber and logging meet the criteria as Suppliers for
secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because at least 5 percent of
the workers were separated from employment in the first
quarter of 2009 when compared to the same time period of the
previous year.
Criterion II has been satisfied because workers of
Tightline Logging produced and sold fall timber and logs to
Plum Creek MDF, Inc., Columbia Falls, Montana, to be
incorporated into fiberboard panels. Workers of Plum Creek
MDF, Inc., Columbia Falls, Montana are covered by
certification number TA-W-64,238 issued based on an increased
company imports of fiberboard panels.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by Tightline Logging with respect to fall timber and logging
sold to Plum Creek MDF, Inc. contributed importantly to worker
separations at Tightline Logging.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Tightline Logging,
Potomac, Montana, who are engaged in employment related to fall
timber and logging meet the worker group certification criteria
under Section 222(a) of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2272(a). In
accordance with Section 223 of the Act, 19 U.S.C. § 2273, I make
the following certification:










"All workers of Tightline Logging, Potomac, Montana, who
became totally or partially separated from employment on or
after May 19, 2008, through two years from the date of
certification, and all workers in the group threatened with
total or partial separation from employment on the date of
certification through two years from the date of
certification, are eligible to apply for adjustment
assistance under Chapter 2 of Title II of the Trade Act of
1974, as amended."
Signed in Washington, D.C., this 21st day of July, 2009.



/s/Linda G. Poole
______________________________
LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance