DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-73,535

LITTLE ROCK EXPRESS, INC.
HOULTON, MAINE

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 "Downstream Producer" as "a firm that performs additional,
value-added production processes or services directly for
another firm for articles or services with respect to which a
group of workers in such other firm has been certified under
subsection (a) [of Section 222 of the Act]" and defines the term
"value-added production processes or services" to "include final
assembly, finishing, testing, packaging, or maintenance or
transportation services."
The investigation was initiated in response to a petition
filed on February 22, 2010 by a company official of Little Rock
Express, Inc., Houlton, Maine. The subject firm provides
general freight trucking service. The investigation revealed
that workers of the subject firm meet the criteria as
suppliers for secondary worker certification.
Criterion I has been met because all workers at the
subject firm have become totally separated.
Criterion II has been met because workers of the subject
firm supplied general freight trucking service to a certified
Trade Adjustment Assistance firm that produced paper. The firm
was certified on the basis of increased imports of paper,
which the subject firm hauled.
Criterion III has been met because the general freight
trucking service supplied by the subject firm for a firm that
employed a worker group covered by an active certification
accounted for at least 20 percent of the production or sales
of the subject firm.



















Conclusion
After careful review of the facts obtained in the
investigation, I determine that workers of Little Rock Express,
Inc., Houlton, Maine, who are engaged in activities related to
general freight trucking service, 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 Little Rock Express Inc, Houlton, Maine,
who became totally or partially separated from employment
on or after February 19, 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 19th day of May 2010


/s/ Elliott S. Kushner

______________________________
ELLIOTT S. KUSHNER
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance