[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 145 (Thursday, July 29, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 45369]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-17314]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 4777]


Shipping Coordinating Committee; Notice of Meeting

    The U.S. Shipping Coordinating Committee (SHC) will conduct an open 
meeting at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, 20 October 2004 in Room 4342 at the 
Department of Transportation, 400 7th & D Streets, SW., Washington, DC 
20590-0001. The purpose of this meeting is to prepare for the Eighty-
Ninth Session of the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) Legal 
Committee (LEG 89) scheduled from 25-29 October 2004.
    The provisional LEG 89 agenda calls for the Legal Committee to 
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). Also the Committee will examine the draft Wreck Removal 
Convention. To be addressed as well is the Provision of Financial 
Security which includes a progress report on the work of the Joint IMO/
ILO Ad Hoc Expert Working Group on Liability and Compensation regarding 
claims for Death, Personal Injury and Abandonment of Seafarers; and 
includes follow-up resolutions adopted by the International Conference 
on the Revision of the Athens Convention relating to the Carriage of 
Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, 1974. The Legal Committee will 
examine places of refuge, measures to protect crews and passengers 
against crimes committed on vessels, fair treatment of seafarers, as 
well as monitoring of the implementation of the HNS Convention, matters 
arising from the ninety-second session of the Council. Finally the 
committee will review technical cooperation: subprogramme for maritime 
legislation, review the status of Conventions and other treaty 
instruments adopted as a result of the work of the Legal Committee, in 
addition to allotting time to address any other issues that may arise 
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. To facilitate the building security 
process, those who plan to attend should call or send an e-mail two 
days before the meeting. Upon request, participating by phone may be an 
option. For further information please contact Captain William 
Baumgartner or Lieutenant Martha Rodriguez, at U.S. Coast Guard, Office 
of Maritime and International Law (G-LMI), 2100 Second Street, S.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20593-0001; e-mail [email protected], 
telephone (202) 267-1527; fax (202) 267-4496.

    Dated: July 21, 2004.
Clay Diamond,
Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating Committee, Department of 
State.
[FR Doc. 04-17314 Filed 7-28-04; 8:45 am]
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