DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-73,222

WEYERHAEUSER LONGVIEW LOGGING
CASTLE ROCK, WASHINGTON

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 by an International Association of Machinists, Woodworkers
Union Official on January 7, 2010 on behalf of the workers of
Weyerhaeuser Longview Logging, Castle Rock, Washington.
Workers at the subject firm are engaged in activities related to
logging.
The investigation revealed that workers of Weyerhaeuser
Longview Logging who are engaged in employment related to
logging meet the criteria as Suppliers for secondary worker
certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number or
proportion of the workers in the workers' firm have become
totally or partially separated.
Criterion II has been satisfied because workers of
Weyerhaeuser Longview Logging logged and sold timber to a firm
that employed a worker group who is covered by an active
certification to be incorporated into softwood lumber.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by the workers' firm with a firm that employed a worker group
covered by an active certification contributed importantly to
the workers' separation or threat of separation.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Weyerhaeuser Longview
Logging, Castle Rock, Washington, who are engaged in activities
related to 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 Weyerhaeuser Longview Logging, Castle
Rock, Washington, who became totally or partially separated
from employment on or after January 5, 2009 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 7th day of April 2010


/s/Elliott S. Kushner
______________________________
ELLIOTT S. KUSHNER
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance