[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 81 (Friday, April 26, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 20860]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-10328]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 3960]


Shipping Coordinating Committee; Notice of Meeting

    The U.S. Shipping Coordinating Committee (SHC) will conduct an open 
meeting at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, May 21, 2002, in Room 2415 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-Fourth 
Session of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Legal 
Committee (LEG 84), scheduled for April 22 through 26, 2002.
    At LEG 84, the Legal Committee will review the Convention for the 
Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation, 
1988, and its Protocol of 1988 relating to Fixed Platforms Located on 
the Continental Shelf (SUA Convention and Protocol) to determine if the 
instruments need to be updated in light of the September 11, 2001 
terrorist attacks against the United States of America. The Committee 
will also examine the draft Wreck Removal Convention with the objective 
of having the draft ready for a Diplomatic Conference in the 2004-5 
biennium. In addition, the Legal Committee will 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 status of the 
implementation of the International Convention on Liability and 
Compensation for Damage in Connection With the Carriage of Hazardous 
and Noxious Substances by Sea. Time also will be allotted to address 
any other issues on the Legal Committee's work program.
    Members of the public are invited to attend the SHC meeting up to 
the seating capacity of the room. Due to building security, it is 
recommended that those who plan on attending call or send an e-mail two 
days ahead of the meeting so that we may place your name on a list for 
security personnel to reference. For further information please contact 
Captain Joseph F. Ahern or Lieutenant Carolyn Leonard-Cho, at U.S. 
Coast Guard, Office of Maritime and International Law (G-LMI), 2100 
Second Street, SW., Washington, DC 20593-0001; e-mail 
[email protected], telephone (202) 267-1527; fax (202) 267-
4496.

    Dated: April 10, 2002.
Stephen M. Miller,
Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating Committee, Department of 
State.
[FR Doc. 02-10328 Filed 4-25-02; 8:45 am]
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