TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS.

SEC. 246. TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS. (a) Where a group of workers has been certified as eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under section 302(b) (2) or (c) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, any worker who has not had an application for trade readjustment allowances under section 322 of that Act denied before the effective date of this chapter may apply under section 231 of this Act as if the group certification under which he claims coverage had been made under subchapter A of this chapter. (b) In any case where a group of workers or their certified or recognized union or other duly authorized representative has filed a petition under section 301(a)(2) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, more than 4 months before the effective date of this chapter and (1) the Commission has not rejected such petition before the effective date of this chapter, and (2) the President or his delegate has not issued a certification under section 302(c) of that Act to the petitioning group before the effective date of this chapter, such group or representative thereof may file a new petition under section 221 of this Act, not later than 90 days after the effective date of this chapter. For purposes of section 223(b)(1), the date on which such group or representative filed the petition under the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 shall apply. Section 223(b) (2) shall not apply to workers covered by a certification issued pursuant to a petition meeting the requirements of this subsection. (c) A group of workers may file a petition under section 221 covering weeks of unemployment (as defined in the Trade Expansion Act of 1962) beginning before the effective date of this chapter, or covering such weeks and also weeks of unemployment beginning on or after the effective date of this chapter. (d) Any worker receiving payments pursuant to this section shall be entitled— (1) for weeks of unemployment (as defined in the Trade Expansion Act of 1962) beginning before the effective date of this chapter, to the rights and privileges provided in chapter 3 of title III of such Act, and (2) for weeks of unemployment beginning on or after the effective date of this chapter, to the rights and privileges provided in this chapter, except that the total number of weeks of unemployment, as defined in the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, for which trade readjustment allowances were payable under that 88 Stat. 2028Act shall be deducted from the total number of weeks of unemployment for which an adversely affected worker is eligible for trade readjustment allowances under this chapter. (e) The Commission shall make available to the Secretary on request data it has acquired in investigations under section 301 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 concluded within the 2-year period ending on the effective date of this chapter which did not result in Presidential action under section 302(a) (3) or 302(c) of that Act.