[Federal Register: November 26, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 228)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

[TA-W-50,204]


Kokusai Semiconductor Equipment Corporation, Billerica Facility,
Billerica, MA; Notice of Revised Determination on Reconsideration

    By application of April 8, 2003, a petitioner requested
administrative reconsideration regarding the Department's Negative
Determination Regarding Eligibility to Apply for Worker Adjustment
Assistance, applicable to the workers of the subject firm.
    The initial investigation resulted in a negative determination
issued on March 11, 2003, based on the finding that imports of vertical
diffusion furnaces (200mm and 300mm wafers) did not contribute
importantly to worker separations at the subject plant and no shift of
production to a foreign source occurred. The denial notice was
published in the Federal Register on March 26, 2003 (68 FR 14706).
    Upon further review of the initial investigation, in the
reconsideration process, it was revealed that subject firm customer(s)
increased their import purchases of semiconductor testing equipment
during the relevant period. It was further revealed that U.S. aggregate
imports of electric furnaces and ovens for diffusion, oxidation or
annealing of semiconductor wafers increased significantly during the
relevant period.

Conclusion

    After careful review of the additional facts obtained on
reconsideration, I conclude that increased imports of articles like or
directly competitive with those produced at Kokusai Semiconductor
Equipment Corporation, Billerica Facility, Billerica, Massachusetts,
contributed importantly to the declines in sales or production and to
the total or partial separation of workers at the subject firm. In
accordance with the provisions of the Act, I make the following
certification:

    All workers of Kokusai Semiconductor Equipment Corporation,
Billerica Facility, Billerica, Massachusetts, who became totally or
partially separated from employment on or after November 16, 2001
through two years from the date of this certification, are eligible
to apply for adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade
Act of 1974.


    Signed in Washington, DC, this 27th day of October, 2003.
Elliott S. Kushner,
Certifying Officer, Division of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
[FR Doc. 03-29544 Filed 11-25-03; 8:45 am]

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