[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 200 (Monday, October 16, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 61209]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-26493]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice No. 3433]


Shipping Coordinating Committee; Notice of Meeting

    The U.S. Shipping Coordinating Committee (SHC) will conduct an open 
meeting at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, November 8, 2000, in Room 6319 at U.S. 
Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second Street, SW., Washington, DC. The 
purpose of this meeting is to report the results of the Eighty-Second 
Session of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Legal 
Committee (LEG 82) and the results of the 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).
    At LEG 82, 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 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 
views in 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, SW., Washington, DC 
20593-0001; telephone (202) 267-1527; fax (202) 267-4496.

    Dated: October 10, 2000.
Stephen M. Miller,
Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating Committee.
[FR Doc. 00-26493 Filed 10-13-00; 8:45 am]
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