[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 161 (Tuesday, August 20, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54008-54009]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-21170]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 4080]


Shipping Coordinating Committee, Subcommittee for the Prevention 
of Marine Pollution; Notice of Meeting

    The Shipping Coordinating Committee, Subcommittee for the 
Prevention of Marine Pollution, will conduct an open meeting at 9:30 
a.m. on Thursday, September 26, 2002, in Room 2415 at the U.S. Coast 
Guard Headquarters Building, 2100 Second Street, SW., Washington, DC 
20593.
    The purpose of this meeting will be to review the agenda items to 
be considered at the forty-eighth Session of the International Maritime 
Organization (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 48) to 
be held at the IMO Headquarters in London from 7 through 11 October 
2002. Proposed U.S. positions on the agenda items for MEPC 48 will be 
discussed.

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    The primary matters to be considered include:
    a. Harmful aquatic organisms in ballast water;
    b. Recycling of ships;
    c. Prevention of air pollution from ships;
    d. Consideration and adoption of amendments to mandatory 
instruments;
    e. Implementation of the International Convention on Oil Pollution 
Preparedness, Response and Co-operation (OPRC) and the OPRC-Hazardous 
Noxious Substances Protocol (OPRC-HNS) and relevant conference 
resolutions;
    f. Identification and protection of Special Areas and Particularly 
Sensitive Sea Areas;
    g. Inadequacy of reception facilities;
    h. Promotion of implementation and enforcement of the International 
Convention on the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified 
by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto (MARPOL 73/78) and related 
Codes;
    i. Technical co-operation program;
    j. Interpretation and amendments of MARPOL 73/78 and related Codes;
    k. Harmful effects of the use of anti-fouling paints for ships; 
Future role of formal safety assessment and human element issues;
    l. Future role of formal safety assessment and human element 
issues; and
    m. Work program of the Committee and subsidiary bodies.
    Please note that hard copies of documents associated with MEPC 48 
will not be available at this meeting. Documents will be available in 
Adobe Acrobat format on CD-ROM on the day of the meeting. To request 
documents prior to the meeting date, please write to the address or 
place a request for the documents via the web link provided below.
    Members of the public may attend the meeting up to the seating 
capacity of the room. For further information, or to submit views in 
advance of the meeting, please contact Lieutenant Commander David Beck, 
U.S. Coast Guard, Environmental Standards Division (G-MSO-4), 2100 
Second Street, SW., Washington, DC 20593-0001; telephone (202) 267-
0713; fax (202) 267-4690, e-mail [email protected]; or on-line at: 
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-m/mso/mso4/mepc.html.

    Dated: August 8, 2002.
Stephen Miller,
Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating Committee, Department of 
State.
[FR Doc. 02-21170 Filed 8-19-02; 8:45 am]
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