A condition for the stability of -covered on foliations of 3-manifolds

We give a sufficient condition for a codimension one, transversely orientable foliation of a closed 3-manifold to have the property that any foliation sufficiently close to it be -covered. This condition can be readily verified for many examples. Further, if an -covered foliation has a compact leaf , then any transverse loop meeting lifts to a copy of the leaf space, and the ambient manifold fibers over with as fiber.