99-33652. Shipping Coordinating Committee; Subcommittee on Safety of Life at Sea and Associated Bodies; Notice of Meeting

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 248 (Tuesday, December 28, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72714-72715]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-33652]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice No. 3185]


Shipping Coordinating Committee; Subcommittee on Safety of Life 
at Sea and Associated Bodies; Notice of Meeting

    The Shipping Coordinating Committee will conduct an open meeting at 
10 A.M. on Wednesday, January 19, 2000, in Room 6319, at U.S. Coast 
Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second Street, SW, Washington, DC 20593-0001. 
The purpose of the meeting is to finalize preparations for the Flag 
State Implementation (FSI) Subcommittee of the International Maritime 
Organization (IMO) which is scheduled for January 24-28, 2000, at the 
IMO Headquarters in London. At this meeting, the U.S. position on 
documents submitted for consideration at the eighth session of the FSI 
Subcommittee will be discussed.
    Among other things, the items of particular interest are:
    1. Responsibilities of Governments and measures to encourage flag 
State compliance;
    2. Comprehensive analysis of difficulties encountered in the 
implementation of IMO instruments;
    3. Self-assessment of flag State performance;
    4. Implications arising when a vessel loses the right to fly the 
flag of a State;
    5. Revision of Survey Guidelines (A.746(18)) and Guidelines on 
Surveys (A.560(14));
    6. Guidelines for unscheduled inspections of roll-on/roll-off (ro-
ro) passenger vessels;
    7. Introduction of the Harmonized System of Survey and 
Certification (HSSC) into MARPOL Annex VI on prevention of air 
pollution;
    8. Analysis and evaluation of deficiency reports and mandatory 
reports under the International Convention for the Prevention of Marine 
Pollution from Ships 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 (MARPOL 
73/78);
    9. Casualty statistics and investigations;
    10. Regional cooperation on port State control;
    11. Results of inspections; and,
    12. Mandatory reporting procedures on port State control 
detentions.

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    Members of the public may attend the meeting up to the capacity of 
the room. Interested persons may seek information by contacting Mr. 
David Deaver, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters (G-MOC-4), 2100 Second 
Street, SW, Room 1116, Washington, DC 20593-0001; telephone: (202) 267-
0502; email: [e-mail].

    Dated: December 20, 1999.
Stephan M. Miller,
Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating Committee, Department of 
State.
[FR Doc. 99-33652 Filed 12-27-99; 8:45 am]
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