DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-71,617

TUBE CITY IMS, LLC
A SUBSIDIARY OF TUBE CITY IMS CORPORATION
GRANITE CITY, ILLINOIS

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 services used
in the production of 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 July 9, 2009, by the United Steelworkers Union on
behalf of workers of Tube City IMS, LLC, a subsidiary of Tube
City IMS Corporation, Granite City, Illinois (Tube City). The
workers provide steel scrap processing.
The investigation revealed that workers of Tube City who
are engaged in employment related to processing steel scrap
meet the criteria as Suppliers for secondary worker
certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant proportion
of the workers have become separated from employment during
the relevant period.
Criterion II has been met because workers of Tube City
produced and sold processed steel scrap to a firm that
employed a TAA-certified worker group to be incorporated into
flat rolled steel.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by Tube City with respect to the TAA-certified firm
contributed importantly to worker separations at the Granite
City, Illinois facility.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Tube City IMS, LLC, a
subsidiary of Tube City IMS Corporation, Granite City, Illinois,
who are engaged in employment related to steel scrap processing
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 Tube City IMS, LLC, a subsidiary
of Tube City IMS Corporation, Granite City, Illinois, who became
totally or partially separated from employment on or after July
8, 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 17th day of December, 2009



/s/ Michael W. Jaffe
______________________________
MICHAEL W. JAFFE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance