[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 18 (Friday, January 26, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7950-7951]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-2408]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice Number 3541]


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, March 6, 2001, in Room 2415 at U.S. 
Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second Street, SW., Washington, DC. The 
purposes of this meeting are to prepare for: (1) The International 
Conference on Liability and Compensation for Bunker Oil Damage, 2001 
(bunkers convention diplomatic conference); (2) an informal meeting of 
interested delegates to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) 
Legal Committee to discuss the draft protocol to the Athens Convention 
Relating to the Carriage of Passengers and Their Luggage By Sea (draft 
Athens protocol); and (3) 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). Finally, the meeting will afford an opportunity to 
review the work plan of the IMO Legal Committee and, in particular, the 
anticipated timeframe for submission of the draft Athens protocol and a 
draft Wreck Removal Convention to diplomatic conferences.
    The headquarters of IMO will host the bunkers convention diplomatic 
conference, which will be held from 19 through 23 March 2001. This 
conference will consider the adoption of a draft International 
Convention on Liability and Compensation for Bunker Oil Pollution 
Damage. The headquarters of IMO tentatively also will host an informal 
meeting of interested delegates on March 14, 2001, to discuss 
outstanding issues regarding the draft Athens protocol. Finally, the 
IMO/ILO Ad Hoc Expert Working Group will meet at IMO headquarters from 
April 30 through May 4, 2001, 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.

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    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: January 22, 2001.
Mira Piplani,
International Transportation Commercial Officer, Shipping Coordinating 
Committee, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 01-2408 Filed 1-25-01; 8:45 am]
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