66 FR 225 pg. 58546 - Shipping Coordinating Committee; Notice of Meeting

Type: NOTICEVolume: 66Number: 225Page: 58546
Docket number: [Notice Number 3845]
FR document: [FR Doc. 01-29157 Filed 11-20-01; 8:45 am]
Agency: State Department
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Notice Number 3845]

Shipping Coordinating Committee; Notice of Meeting

The Shipping Coordinating Committee (SHC) will conduct an open meeting at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, December 11, 2001, in room 1303 at U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second Street, SW, Washington, DC, 20593-0001.

The purpose of the meeting is to review the agenda items to be considered at the twenty-ninth session of the Facilitation Committee (FAL 29) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), which is scheduled for January 7 to 11, 2002, at the IMO headquarters in London. Proposed U.S. positions on the agenda items for FAL 29 will be discussed.

The major items for discussion for FAL 29 will include the following:

-Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic

-Consideration and adoption of proposed amendments to the Annex to the Convention

-EDI messages for the clearance of ships

-Application of the Committee's Guidelines

-General review of the Convention including harmonization with other international instruments

-Formalities connected with the arrival, stay and departure of ships

-Formalities connected with the arrival, stay and departure of persons-Stowaways

-Facilitation aspects of other IMO forms and certificates

-Technical co-operation sub-programme for facilitation

-Ship-port interface

Members of the public may attend this meeting up to the seating capacity of the room. Interested persons may seek information by writing: Chief, Office of Standards Evaluation and Development, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Commandant (G-MSR), room 1400, 2100 Second Street, SW., Washington, DC, 20593-0001 or by calling Mr. David A. Du Pont at: (202) 267-0971.

Dated: November 9, 2001.

Stephen Miller,

Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating Committee, Department of State.

[FR Doc. 01-29157 Filed 11-20-01; 8:45 am]

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