DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-73,398

FUEL TOTAL SYSTEMS COMPANY LTD
FUEL TOTAL SYSTEMS, CALIFORNIA CORPORATION
FUEL TOTAL SYSTEMS, CALIFORNIA KENTUCKY PLANT
INCLUDING LEASED ON-SITE WORKERS OF MANPOWER TEMPORARY SERVICES,
SELECT STAFFING, SNELLING STAFFING, AND RHI
LATHROP, CALIFORNIA

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 February 2, 2010 by the State of California Trade
Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Coordinator on behalf of workers of
Fuel Total Systems Company LTD, Fuel Total Systems, California
Corporation, Fuel Total Systems, California Kentucky Plant,
Lathrop, California (Fuel Total Systems). The workers produce
fuel tanks for motor vehicles.
The worker group includes on-site leased workers of
Manpower Temporary Services, Select Staffing, Snelling
Staffting and RHI.
The investigation revealed that workers of Fuel Total
Systems, Lathrop, California, who are engaged in employment
related to fuel tank production, meet the criteria as
Suppliers for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number or
proportion of workers at Fuel Total Systems has been totally
or partially separated, or threatened with such separation,
during the relevant period.
Criterion II has been met because workers of the subject
firm produced and sold fuel tanks to be incorporated into
complete motor vehicles to a firm that employed a worker group
that is currently eligible to apply for TAA.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by the subject firm with the TAA-certified worker group, with
respect to fuel tanks, contributed importantly to worker
separations at Fuel Total Systems, Lathrop, California.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Fuel Total Systems,
Lathrop, California, who are engaged in employment related to
fuel tank production, 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 Fuel Total Systems Company LTD, Fuel Total
Systems, California Corporation, Fuel Total Systems,
California Kentucky Plant, including leased on-site
workers of Manpower Temporary Services, Select Staffing,
Snelling Staffing, and RHI, Lathrop, California, who
became totally or partially separated from employment on or
after February 1, 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 14th day of May, 2010


/s/Del Min Amy Chen
______________________________
DEL MIN AMY CHEN
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance