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[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 110 (Monday, June 9, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 33033]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-13358]

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 8761]

Shipping Coordinating Committee; Notice of Committee Meeting

    The Shipping Coordinating Committee (SHC) will conduct an open 
meeting at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, July 10th, 2014, in U.S. Coast Guard 
Headquarters, Room 5Y23-21, Washington, DC. The primary purpose of the 
meeting is to prepare for the first Session of the International 
Maritime Organization's (IMO) Subcommittee on Implementation of IMO 
Instruments to be held at the IMO Headquarters, United Kingdom on July 
14-18, 2014.
    The agenda items to be considered include:
     Decisions of other IMO bodies;
     Responsibilities of Governments and measures to encourage 
flag State compliance;
     Mandatory reports under International Convention for the 
Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol 
of 1978 (MARPOL 73/78);
     Casualty analysis and statistics;
     Harmonization of port State control activities;
     Port State Control (PSC) Guidelines on seafarers' hours of 
rest and PSC guidelines in relation to the Maritime Labour Convention, 
2006;
     Development of guidelines on port State control under the 
2004 Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention;
     Comprehensive analysis of difficulties encountered in the 
implementation of IMO instruments;
     Review of the Survey Guidelines under the Harmonized 
System of Survey and Certification (HSSC) and the non-exhaustive list 
of obligations under instruments relevant to the IMO Instruments 
Implementation Code (III Code);
     Consideration of International Association of 
Classification Societies (IACS) unified interpretations;
     Measures to protect the safety of persons rescued at sea;
     Illegal unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing and 
related matters;
     Review of general cargo ship safety;
     Any other business.
    Members of the public may attend this meeting up to the seating 
capacity of the room. Upon request, members of the public may also 
participate via teleconference, up to the capacity of the 
teleconference phone line. The access number for this teleconference 
line will be posted online at http://www.uscg.mil/imo/msc/default.asp 
at least 5 working days in advance.
    Physical access to the meeting, or participation via the 
teleconference line, requires that all attendees respond to the meeting 
coordinator not later than July 3rd, 2014, 7 working days prior to the 
meeting. The meeting coordinator, Mr. E.J. Terminella, may be contacted 
by email at Emanuel.J.TerminellaJr@uscg.mil or by phone at (202) 372-
1239. Responses made after July 3rd, 2014 might result in not being 
able to participate in the meeting. Please note that due to security 
considerations, two valid, government issued photo identifications must 
be presented to gain entrance to the Coast Guard Headquarters building. 
The building is accessible by public transportation or taxi. Additional 
information regarding this and other IMO SHC public meetings may be 
found at: www.uscg.mil/imo. In case of severe weather or other 
emergency in the Washington, DC area, attendees should check with the 
Office of Personnel Management at http://www.opm.gov or (202) 606-1900 
for the operating status of federal agencies. If federal agencies are 
closed, this meeting will not be rescheduled, but the Shipping 
Coordinating Committee will publish a separate Federal Register notice 
to announce an electronic docket to receive public comments.

    Dated: May 30, 2014.
Marc Zlomek,
Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating Committee, Department of 
State.
[FR Doc. 2014-13358 Filed 6-6-14; 8:45 am]
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