[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 175 (Friday, September 10, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 54825]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-20523]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 4784]


Shipping Coordinating Committee

    The Department of State's Subcommittee on Ocean Dumping of the 
Shipping Coordinating Committee will hold an open meeting on Tuesday, 
October 26, 2004, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. to obtain public comment on the 
issues to be addressed at the November 1-5, 2004, Twenty-sixth 
Consultative Meeting of Contracting Parties to the London Convention. 
The London Convention of 1972 is the global international treaty 
regulating ocean dumping. The meeting will also review the results of 
the Twenty-seventh Scientific Group Meeting of the London Convention 
that was held in Mombasa, Kenya from May 3-7, 2004.
    In addition, participants at this meeting will discuss plans for 
ratification, by the United States, of the 1996 London Protocol. The 
Protocol is a treaty signed by the United States in 1998 that is 
separate from the London Convention. It sets forth a regime that is 
more comprehensive, more stringent, and more protective of the marine 
environment than the London Convention.
    The public meeting will be held at the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency offices located at 1201 Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20004 in Room 1117A. Interested members of the public 
are invited to attend, up to the capacity of the room. Please check in 
with the EPA security desk when you enter the building.
    For further information, please contact: Patrick Cotter, Office of 
International Affairs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 
2660R, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460, telephone 
(202) 564-6414, e-mail [email protected].

    Dated: September 2, 2004.
Clayton Diamond,
Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating Committee, Department of 
State.
[FR Doc. 04-20523 Filed 9-9-04; 8:45 am]
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