[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 129 (Wednesday, July 7, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 39089]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-16516]
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice: 7008]
Shipping Coordinating Committee; Notice of Committee Meeting
The Shipping Coordinating Committee (SHC) will conduct an open
meeting at 0930 on Wednesday July 22, 2010, in Room 51309 of the United
States Coast Guard Headquarters Building, 2100 Second Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20593-0001. The primary purpose of the meeting is to
prepare for the fifty-sixth Session of the International Maritime
Organization (IMO) Subcommittee on Safety of Navigation to be held at
the IMO Headquarters, London, United Kingdom, from July 26 to July 30,
2010.
The primary matters to be considered include:
--Adoption of the agenda
--Decisions of other IMO bodies
--Routing of ships, ship reporting and related matters
--Guidelines for consideration of requests for safety zones larger than
500 meters around artificial islands, installations and structures in
the EEZ
--Amendments to the Performance standards for Voyage Data Recorders
(VDR) and Simplified VDR (S-VDR)
--Development of procedures for updating shipborne navigation and
communications equipment
--International Telecommunication Union (ITU) matters, including
Radiocommunication ITU-R Study Group 8
--Development of an e-navigation strategy implementation plan
--Guidelines on the layout and ergonomic design of safety centers on
passenger ships
--Review of vague expressions in the International Convention for the
Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) regulation V/22
--New symbols for AIS aids to navigation
--Amendments to the Worldwide Radionavigation System
--Review of the principles for establishing the safe manning level of
ships including mandatory requirements for determining safe manning
--Amendments to the 1966 Loadline Convention (LL) and the 1988 LL
Protocol related to seasonal zone
--Casualty analysis
--Consideration of International Association of Classification
Societies (IACS) unified interpretations
Members of the public may attend this meeting up to the seating
capacity 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. Edward J. LaRue Jr., by e-mail at
[email protected], by phone at (202) 372-1564, by fax at (202)
372-1930, or in writing at Commandant (CG-5533), U.S. Coast Guard, 2100
2nd Street, SW., Stop 7581, Washington, DC 20593-7581, 7 days prior to
the meeting. Please note that due to security considerations, two
valid, government issued photo identifications must be presented to
gain entrance to the Headquarters building. The Headquarters building
is accessible by taxi and privately owned conveyance (public
transportation is not generally available). However, parking in the
vicinity of the building is extremely limited. Additional information
regarding this and other IMO SHC public meetings may be found at:
http://www.uscg.mil/imo.
Dated: June 30, 2010.
Jon Trent Warner,
Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating Committee, Department of
State.
[FR Doc. 2010-16516 Filed 7-6-10; 8:45 am]
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