[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 158 (Tuesday, August 17, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 44774]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-21341]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice No. 3115]


Shipping Coordinating Committee: International Maritime 
Organization (IMO) Legal Committee; Notice of Meeting

    The U.S. Shipping Coordinating Committee (SHC) will conduct an open 
meeting at 10:00 a.m., on Monday, September 27, 1999, in Room 2415 at 
U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second Street, SW, Washington, DC 
The purpose of this meeting is to prepare for the Eightieth Session of 
the International Maritime Organization Legal Committee (LEG 80), and 
the Joint International Maritime Organization/International Labor 
Organization Ad Hoc Expert Working Group, to held concurrently October 
11-15, 1999 in London.
    It is anticipated that LEG 80 will focus primarily, if not 
exclusively, on completing its work on a draft protocol to the Athens 
Convention, therefore the SHC will focus primarily on this topic at the 
September 27 meeting. The Joint IMO/ILO Ad Hoc Expert Working Group 
will be focusing on the subject of liability and compensation regarding 
claims for death, personal injury and abandonment of seafarers, 
therefore the SHC will also focus on this topic. Other topics that will 
be briefly addressed include: the draft IMO Guidelines on Shipowners' 
Responsibilities in Respect of Maritime Claims and a draft convention 
regarding bunker fuel spills. Time will also be allotted to address any 
other issues on the LEG work program on which there are questions or 
comments.
    Members of the public are invited to attend the SHC meeting, up to 
the seating capacity of the room. For further information, or to submit 
views in advance of the meeting, please contact Captain Malcolm J. 
Williams, Jr., or Lieutenant William G. Rospars, U.S. Coast Guard, 
Office of Maritime and International Law (G-LMI), 2100 Second Street, 
SW, Washington, DC 20593-0001; telephone (202) 267-1527; fax (202) 267-
4496.

    Dated: August 11, 1999.
Stephen M. Miller,
Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating Committee.
[FR Doc. 99-21341 Filed 8-16-99; 8:45 am]
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