Document ID: USCG-2019-0476-0001
Agency: uscg
Document Type: Notice
Title: Notice of Public Meeting in Preparation for the IMO’s One Hundred Twenty Second Session of IMO’s Council
Posted Date: 2019-06-17T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 116 (Monday, June 17, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 28067]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-12770]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

[Docket No. USCG-2019-0476]

Notice of Public Meeting in Preparation for the IMO's One Hundred 
Twenty Second Session of IMO's Council

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The United States Coast Guard will conduct an open meeting in 
Washington, DC in preparation for the upcoming one hundred twenty 
second session of International Maritime Organization (IMO) Council to 
be held at the IMO Headquarters, United Kingdom, July 15-19, 2019.

DATES: This meeting will be held on Thursday, July 11, 2019, beginning 
at 2:00 p.m., Eastern Time. This meeting is open to the public.

ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be held in Room 5L18-01 of the 
Douglas A. Munro Coast Guard Headquarters Building at St. Elizabeth's, 
2703 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20593. Due to 
security requirements, each visitor must present two valid, government-
issued forms of identification in order to gain entrance to the 
building. Those desiring to attend the public meeting should contact 
the Coast Guard ahead of the meeting (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT) to facilitate the security process related to building access, 
for the teleconference number, or to request reasonable accommodation.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information about this 
public meeting you may contact Lieutenant Commander Staci Weist by 
telephone at 202-372-1376 or by email at Eustacia.Y.Weist@uscg.mil.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The primary purpose of this meeting is to 
prepare for the upcoming one hundred twenty second session of IMO 
Council (C 122). The agenda items for this session include:

 Adoption of the agenda
 Report of the Secretary-General on credentials
 Strategy, planning and reform
 Resource Management
 Results-based budget for 2020-2021
 IMO Member State Audit Scheme
 Consideration of the report of the Facilitation Committee
 Consideration of the report of the Legal Committee
 Consideration of the report of the Marine Environment 
Protection Committee
 Consideration of the report on the fortieth Consultative 
Meeting of Contracting Parties to the London Convention 1972 and the 
thirteenth Meeting of Contracting Parties to the 1996 Protocol to the 
London Convention
 Consideration of the reports of the Maritime Safety Committee
 Consideration of the report of the Technical Cooperation 
Committee
 Technical Cooperation Fund
 Protection of vital shipping lanes
 Word Maritime University
 Assembly matters
 External relations
 Report on the status of the Convention and membership of the 
Organization
 Report on the status of conventions and other multilateral 
instruments in respect of which the Organization performs functions
 Place, date and duration of the next two sessions of the 
Council
 Supplementary agenda items, if any

    Members of the public may attend this meeting up to the seating 
capacity of the room, or the capacity of the phone line. To facilitate 
the building security process, and to request reasonable accommodation, 
those who plan to attend should contact the meeting coordinator, 
Lieutenant Commander Staci Weist, not later than July 8, 2019. Requests 
made after July 8, 2019, may not be able to be accommodated. It is 
recommended that attendees arrive to Coast Guard Headquarters no later 
than 30 minutes ahead of the scheduled meeting for the security 
screening process. Parking in the vicinity of the building is extremely 
limited. Additional information regarding this and other IMO public 
meetings may be found at: www.uscg.mil/imo.

    Dated: June 12, 2019.
Benjamin J. Hawkins,
Acting Director, Commercial Regulations and Standards, U.S. Coast 
Guard.
[FR Doc. 2019-12770 Filed 6-14-19; 8:45 am]
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