DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-73,445

ILEVEL BY WEYERHAEUSER
A SUBSIDIARY OF WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY
BOISE TECH CENTER
BOISE, IDAHO

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 3, 2010 by a company official on behalf of
workers of iLevel by Weyerhaeuser, a Subsidiary of Weyerhaeuser
Company, Boise Tech Center, Boise, Idaho (Boise Tech Center).
The workers supply technology, marketing, sales, and supply
chain services to Weyerhaeuser Company manufacturing
facilities located in the United States. These manufacturing
facilities produce softwood lumber and various softwood lumber
products such as plywood, veneer, panels, oriented strand board
and other laminated and engineered wood products used in
commercial and residential construction.
The investigation revealed that workers of the Boise Tech
Center, who are engaged in employment related to the supply of
technology, marketing, sales, and supply chain services, meet
the criteria as suppliers for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because a significant number of
proportion of workers at Boise Tech Center have been totally
or partially separated or threatened with such separation.
Criterion II has been met because workers of Boise Tech
Center provide services exclusively to Weyerhaeuser Company
facilities and a significant number and proportion of these
facilities employed a worker group who is covered by an active
certification to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA).
The services supplied by the subject firm were used in the
production of lumber and various lumber products.
Criterion III has been met because the loss of business
by Boise Tech Center with the TAA-certified firms, with
respect to lumber and lumber products, contributed importantly
to worker separations at Boise Tech Center.
Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of iLevel by
Weyerhaeuser, a Subsidiary of Weyerhaeuser Company, Boise Tech
Center, Boise, Idaho, who are engaged in employment related to
the supply of technology, marketing, sales, and supply chain
services, 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 iLevel by Weyerhaeuser, a Subsidiary of
Weyerhaeuser Company, Boise Tech Center, Boise, Idaho, who
became totally or partially separated from employment on or
after January 22, 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 26th day of March, 2010


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