[Federal Register: October 4, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 193)]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-38,592; TA-W-38,592A]

 
Exide Technologies, Automotive Battery Division, AKA GNB 
Batteries, Inc., AKA Exide Corporation Farmers Branch, TX; Exide 
Technologies Oklahoma City Distribution Center, AKA GNB Batteries, 
Inc., AKA Exide Corporation Oklahoma City, OK, Amended Certification 
Regarding Eligibility To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

    In accordance with section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 
2273) the Department of Labor issued a Notice of Certification 
Regarding Eligibility to Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance on 
January 31, 2001, applicable to workers of Exide Technologies, 
Automotive Battery Division, aka GNB Batteries, Inc., aka Exide 
Corporation, Farmers Branch, Texas. The notice was published in the 
Federal Register on March 2, 2001 (66 FR 13086).
    At the request of the company, the Department reviewed the 
certification for workers of the subject firm. The workers were engaged 
in the production of lead acid batteries.
    New information shows that worker separations occurred at the 
Oklahoma City Distribution Center of Exide Technologies, aka GNB 
Batteries, Inc., aka Exide Corporation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma when it 
closed in August, 2001. The Oklahoma City, Oklahoma location provided 
warehousing and distribution services for Exide Technologies; 
production facilities including Farmers Branch, Texas.
    Accordingly, the Department is amending the certification to cover 
the workers of Exide Technologies, Oklahoma City Distribution Center, 
aka GNB Batteries, Inc., aka Exide Corporation, Oklahoma City, 
Oklahoma.
    The intent of the Department's certification is to include all 
workers of Exide Technologies, Automotive Battery Division, aka GNB 
Batteries, Inc., aka Exide Corporation who were adversely affected by 
increased imports of lead acid batteries.
    The amended notice applicable to TA-W-38,592 is hereby issued as 
follows:

    All workers of Exide Technologies, Automotive Battery Division, 
aka GNB Batteries, Inc., aka Exide Corporation. Farmers Branch, 
Texas (TA-W-38,592) and Exide Technologies, Oklahoma City 
Distribution Center, aka GNB Batteries, Inc., aka Exide Corporation, 
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (TA-W-39,592A) who became totally or 
partially separated from employment on or after January 10, 2000, 
through January 31, 2003, are eligible to apply for adjustment 
assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 10th day of September, 2001.
Edward A. Tomchick,
Director, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 01-24818 Filed 10-3-01; 8:45 am]
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