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[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 247 (Tuesday, December 24, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77772-77773]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-30675]

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 8572]

Shipping Coordinating Committee; Notice of Committee Meeting

    The Shipping Coordinating Committee (SHC) will conduct an open 
meeting at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, January 21, 2014 in the Alexander 
Hamilton Room (AHR), 9th floor, of the United States Coast Guard (USCG) 
Personnel Service Center (PSC), 4200 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1100, 
Arlington, VA 20598-7200. The primary purpose of the meeting is to 
prepare for the first Session of the International Maritime 
Organization's (IMO) Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response 
(PPR) to be held at the IMO Headquarters, United Kingdom, February 03-
07, 2014.
    The agenda items to be considered include:

--Adoption of the agenda
--Decisions of other IMO bodies
--Evaluation of safety and pollution hazards of liquid chemicals and 
preparation of consequential amendments to the IBC Code
--Development of a code for the transport and handling of limited 
amounts of hazardous and noxious liquid substances in bulk on offshore 
support vessels
--Additional guidelines for implementation of the BWM Convention
--Production of a manual entitled ``Ballast Water Management--How to do 
it''
--Improved and new technologies approved for ballast water management 
systems and reduction of atmospheric pollution
--Consideration of the impact on the Arctic of emissions of Black 
Carbon from international shipping
--Review of relevant non-mandatory instruments as a consequence of the 
amended MARPOL Annex VI and the NOX Technical Code
--Implementation of the OPRC Convention and the OPRC-HNS Protocol and 
relevant Conference resolutions
--Consideration of IACS unified interpretations
--Casualty analysis
--Biennial agenda and provisional agenda for PPR 2
--Election of Chairman and Vice-Chairman for 2015
--Any other business
--Report to the Marine Environment Protection Committee

    Members of the public may attend this meeting up to the seating 
capacity

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of the room. To facilitate the building security process, and to 
request reasonable accommodation, those who plan to attend should 
contact the meeting coordinator, Mr. Timothy Brown, by email at 
timothy.m.brown@uscg.mil, by phone at 202-372-2358, by fax at (202) 
372-8383, or in writing at Commandant (CG-5PS), U.S. Coast Guard, 2703 
Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE., Stop 7509, Washington, DC 20593-7509 
not later than January 10, 2014, 7 days prior to the meeting. Requests 
made after January 10, 2014 might not be able to be accommodated. 
Please note that due to security considerations, two valid, government 
issued photo identifications must be presented to gain entrance to the 
building. The USCG Offices in the Ballston Commons Plaza are located 
above the Ballston Common Mall in Arlington, VA. It can be reached by 
driving and is conveniently located next to the Ballston Metro Station. 
Additional information regarding this and other IMO SHC public meetings 
may be found at: www.uscg.mil/imo.

    Dated: December 17, 2013.
Marc Zlomek,
Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating Committee, Department of 
State.
[FR Doc. 2013-30675 Filed 12-23-13; 8:45 am]
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