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TIPS FOR CONSUMERS
from your Better Business Bureau
What should you do when abusi
ness closes?
You take your TV to a repair
shop, but when you return to pick
it up, you find that the shop is no
longer in business. What do you do
when the company you’ve been
doing business with or expect fur
therservice fromhassuddenlygone
out of business? Trying to locate a
company that has gone out of busi
ness can be difficult.
The Better Business Bureau sug
gests the following:
* Gotothelast known location to
see if the company has posted any
Norwood axes SRS layoffs
with new budget approvals
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Fiveyearsofenvironmental bud
get cuts and jobs layoffs at the
Savannah River Site are one step
closer to being brought to an end,
as a result of House Appropria
tions Committee action on funding
requests submitted by Congress
men Charlie Norwood (R-GA) and
Lindsey Graham (R-SC).
. “A long nightmare for SRS em
ployees and the CSRA is finally
over,” Norwood says. “Every Feb
ruary since 1993 has brought more
bad news to the Aiken-Augusta,
area, in the form oflayoffannounce
ments. Now we’ve stopped that,
not only for this year, but more
than likely for the next decade.”
Qver 10,000 jobs have been cut at
the Savannah River Site since the
Clinton Administrationscameinto
office in January, 1993.
The Appropriations Committee
has approved Norwood and
Graham’srequest for an additional
SBO million in funding for SRS en
vironmental cleanup and canyon
operations. Theincrease overturns
an earlier Clinton Administration
budget proposal that would have
resulted in an estimated 1,000 lay
offs at the site this fall.
Thebudget approvals are astark
contrast in employment outlook at
the site compared to earlier this
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instructions or signs. If not, ask
neighboring companies if they
know what may have happened. If
the business was located in an office
building, you should try contacting
the landlord of the building.
* Send a letter to the company’s
last known address asking the
owner to contact you. Even if the
business is closed, the mail may be
subject to a forwarding order. You
can also pay a visit to your Post
Office to see if the company has a
forwarding address.
* If you don’t know the names of
the principals, check with your city
year. In February, the CSRA was
bracing for 1,500 layoffs scheduled
for June, as a result of the Clinton
Administration FY 98 Budget Pro
posal. Norwood and Graham re
sponded by pressuring DOE into
postponing 1,000 of the layoffs un
til after Congress had a chance to
overturn the Administration’s
planned $l2O million budget cut at
thesite. The two Congressmenthen
succeeded in rectoring SBO million
to the site budget, with $47 million
earmarked for canyon operations.
DOE officials now say there will
likely be no further reduction in
SRS employment for the next de
cade.
Other DOE funding requests sub
mitted by Norwood and approved
by the committee include full fund
ingrequests submitted by Norwood
and approved by the committee
include full funding of tritium pro
duction and fissile materials dispo
sition programs, and continued
DOE research into superconduc
tive electric cables.
The funding requests are part of
the Energy and Water Appropria
tions Act of 1998, which will be
voted on by the full House later this
week. The Act will then be recon
ciled with a similar measure in the
Senate, and a final version sent to
the President tobe signed intolaw.
or county clerk’s office. This may
require a personal visit and you
may be charged a small fee.
e If the business is regulated,
such as attorneys, doctors, engi
neers, employment services, new
car dealer, etc., contact the licens
ing agency. If you're not sure
whether the company isregulated,
contact your state’s Department of
Licensing & Regulations office.
They will be able to tell you how to
contact the appropriate regulatory
authorities.
¢ Contact the Clerk of the Bank
ruptcy Court in the area where the
company was located to see if the
company may have filed for bank
ruptcy.
* Contact your Better Business
Bureau (BBB). The 888 does not
trace companies, but it does re
ceive information daily on a num
ber of changes in the business loca
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tions and ownerships and may be
able to help you.
* Ifyou are successful in locating
the owner and the business is not
in bankruptcy, you are still owed
your services, product, or money.
Closing a business does not relieve
the owner of his or her obligation to
you. Ifyou cannot obtain an appro
priate settlement from the com
pany, file a complaint with the At
torney General’s office, with Small
Claims Court, or seek the help of
an attorney.
e If the company has filed for
bankruptcy, you shouldfile a claim
with the bankruptcy court. The
court will suspend the company’s
obligations to creditors and cus
tomers until it approves a plan to
reorganize or liquidate the com
pany. Under the plan, you, as a
claimant, may or may not get all or
part of what you are owed.
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