[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 172 (Tuesday, September 5, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53794-53795]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-22659]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice No. 3387]


Shipping Coordinating Committee; International Maritime 
Organization Legal Committee; Notice of Meeting

    The U.S. Shipping Coordinating Committee (SHC) will conduct an open 
meeting at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 3, 2000, in Room 2415 at U.S. 
Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 
The purpose of this meeting is to prepare for the Eighty-Second Session 
of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Legal Committee (LEG 
82) and to also prepare for the next meeting of the Joint International 
Maritime Organization/International Labor Organization Ad Hoc Expert 
Working Group on Liability and Compensation Regarding Claims for Death, 
Personal Injury and Abandonment of Seafarers (IMO/ILO Ad Hoc Expert 
Working Group).
    IMO headquarters in London will host LEG 82, which will be held 
from 16 through 20 October 2000. The Legal Committee will continue work 
on a draft protocol to the Athens Convention Relating to the Carriage 
of Passengers and Their Luggage By Sea, and on the draft Wreck Removal 
Convention. The committee will also consider a proposal to increase the 
limits of compensation under the 1992 protocols to the 1969 
International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage 
and the 1971 International Convention on the Establishment of an 
International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage. The Legal 
Committee will then turn its attention to the implementation of the 
International Convention on Liability and Compensation for Damage in 
Connection With the Carriage of Hazardous and Noxious Substances by 
Sea, and time will also be allotted to address any other issues on the 
Legal Committee's work program on which there are questions or 
comments.
    The IMO/ILO Ad Hoc Expert Working Group will meet at IMO 
headquarters from 30 October through 3 November 2000, and will continue 
to examine the issue of financial security for seafarers and their 
dependents with regard to compensation in cases of personal injury, 
death and abandonment. During this meeting, the group will review and 
analyze information received in response to a questionnaire sent to 
member states.
    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 
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advance of the meeting, please contact Captain Joesph F. Ahern or 
Lieutenant Daniel J. Goettle, U.S. Coast Guard, Office of Maritime and 
International Law (G-LMI), 2100 Second Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 
20593-0001; telephone (202) 267-1527; fax (202) 267-4496.

    Dated: August 28, 2000.
Stephen M. Miller,
Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating Committee, U.S. Department 
of State.
[FR Doc. 00-22659 Filed 9-1-00; 8:45 am]
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