CORRECTED: MARCH 26, 2010


DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-72,929

REPUBLIC ENGINEERED PRODUCTS, INC.
LORAIN PLANT
LORAIN, OHIO

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 November 24, 2009 by the United Steelworkers, District
1 – Subdistrict 4 on behalf of workers of Republic Engineered
Products, Inc., Lorain Plant, Lorain, Ohio. The workers are
engaged in activities related to the production of semi-finished
tube rounds and other semi-finished steel products.
The investigation revealed that workers of Republic
Engineered Products who are engaged in activities related to
production of semi-finished tube rounds and other semi-finished
steel products meet the criteria as Suppliers for secondary
worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number of
workers were separated or are threatened with separations
during the relevant period.
Criterion II has been met because workers of Republic
Engineered Products produced and sold semi-finished tube rounds
and other semi-finished steel products to a firm that employed a
worker group that is covered by an active certification to be
incorporated into seamless pipe products.
Criterion III has been met because the customer that
employed a worker group covered by an active certification
accounted for at least 20 percent of the production or sales
of Republic Engineered Products, Inc., Lorain Plant, Lorain,
Ohio.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Republic Engineered
Products, Inc., Lorain Plant, Lorain, Ohio, who are engaged in
activities related to the production of semi-finished tube
rounds and other semi-finished steel products meet the worker
group certification criteria under Section 222(c) of the Act, 19
U.S.C. § 2272(c). In accordance with Section 223 of the Act, 19
U.S.C. § 2273, I make the following certification:









“All workers of Republic Engineered Products, Inc., Lorain
Plant, Lorain, Ohio, who became totally or partially
separated from employment on or after November 20, 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 9th day of March, 2010


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

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