[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 162 (Tuesday, August 20, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 43112]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-21191]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice No. 2426]


Shipping Coordinating Committee Subcommittee on Safety of Life at 
Sea Working Group on Bulk Liquids and Gases; Notice of Meeting

    The Working Group on Bulk Liquids and Gases (BLG) of the 
Subcommittee on Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) will conduct an open 
meeting at 9:30 AM on Thursday, September 19, 1996, in Room 6103, U.S. 
Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second Street, S.W., Washington, DC 
20593-0001. The purpose of the meeting is to review the results of the 
First Session of the BLG Subcommittee of the International Maritime 
Organization (IMO) which was held on March 4-8, 1996, at the IMO 
Headquarters in London. In addition, items listed on the BLG work 
program will be discussed in preparation for the Second Session of the 
BLG Subcommittee which will be held in April 1997.
    The agenda items of particular interest:
    a. Evaluation of safety and pollution hazards of chemicals.
    b. Additional safety measures for tankers.
    c. Tanker pump-room safety.
    d. Shipboard pollution emergency plans.
    e. Review of Annexes I and II of the International Convention of 
Pollution from Ships, 1973 and of the Protocol of 1978 (MARPOL 73/78).
    f. Review of hypothetical oil outflow parameters.
    g. Safety aspects of the alternative tanker designs under MARPOL 
73/78 regulation I/13F.
    h. Decisions of other IMO bodies.
    i. BLG Work Program.
    The mailing list of those interested in the activities of the BLG 
SOLAS Working Group is being updated. The chairman has sent out 
solicitations to over two hundred potentially interested persons 
identified from other mailing lists related to oil, chemical and 
liquefied gas tanker technical issues. Members of the public, in 
addition to those specifically solicited, may also attend the SOLAS 
Working Group meeting and/or have their names added to the mailing list 
by contacting: Commander K. S. Cook, U.S. Coast Guard (G-MSO-3), 2100 
Second Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20593-0001 or by calling (202) 267-
1217.

    Dated: August 9, 1996.
Russell A. LaMantia,
Chairman, Shipping Coordinating Committee.
[FR Doc. 96-21191 Filed 8-19-96; 8:45 am]
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