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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice 2097]

 

Shipping Coordinating Committee Subcommittee on Safety of Life at 
Sea, Working Group on Safety of Navigation; Meeting

    The Working Group on Safety of Navigation of the Subcommittee on 
Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) will conduct an open meeting at 9:30 a.m. 
on Wednesday, November 9, 1994, in room 4315 at U.S. Coast Guard 
Headquarters, 2100 Second Street, SW., Washington, DC.
    The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the results of the 40th 
session of the Subcommittee on Safety of Navigation (NAV) of the 
International Maritime Organization (IMO) which met September 5-9, 
1994, at the IMO Headquarters in London, and to prepare for the 41st 
NAV session which is tentatively scheduled for September 4-8, 1995.
    Items of principal interest on the agenda are:

--Routing of Ships and related matters
--International Code of Signals
--Navigational aids and related matters
--Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) and ship reporting
--Revision of SOLAS chapter V
--Human element and bridge operations
--Review of World Meteorological Organization (WMO) handbooks on 
navigation in areas affected by sea-ice
--IMO standard marine communication phrases
--Removal of wrecks and towage of offshore installations, structures, 
and platforms
--Review of the Code for the Safe Carriage or Irradiated Nuclear Fuel 
(INF Code)
--Operational aspects of Wing in Ground (WIG)--craft
--Safety of passenger submersible craft
--Transponder systems

    Members of the public may attend these meetings up to the seating 
capacity of the room. Interested persons may seek information by 
writing: Mr. Edward J. LaRue, Jr., U.S. Coast Guard (G-NSR-3), Room 
1416, 2100 Second Street, SW., Washington, DC 20593-0001 or by calling: 
(202) 267-0416.

    Dated: October 3, 1994.
Charles A. Mast,
Chairman, Shipping Coordinating Committee.
[FR Doc. 94-25806 Filed 10-18-94; 8:45 am]
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