[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 100 (Wednesday, May 27, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25297-25298]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-12304]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 6626]


Shipping Coordinating Committee Meeting

    Title: Shipping Coordinating Committee Meeting.
    The Shipping Coordinating Committee (SHC) will conduct an open 
meeting at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 8, 2009, in Room 6103 of the 
United States Coast Guard Headquarters Building, 2100 Second Street, 
SW., Washington, DC 20593. The purpose of the meeting is to prepare for 
the fifty-fifth Session of the International Maritime Organization 
(IMO) Sub-committee on Safety of Navigation (NAV 55) to be held at the 
IMO's London headquarters, from July 27 to July 31, 2009. The primary 
matters to be considered at NAV 55 include:

--Routing of ships, ship reporting and related matters;
--Development of guidelines for integrated bridge systems (IBS), 
including performance standards for bridge alert management;
--Guidelines for consideration of requests for safety zones larger than 
500 meters around artificial islands, installations and structures in 
the EEZ;
--Amendments to the Performance standards for Voyage Data Recorders 
(VDR) and Simplified VDR (S-VDR);
--Development of procedures for updating shipborne navigation and 
communications equipment;
--International Telecommunication Union (ITU) matters, including 
Radiocommunication ITU-R Study Group 8;
--Code of conduct during demonstrations/campaigns against ships on high 
seas;
--Measures to minimize incorrect data transmissions by automatic 
identification system (AIS) equipment;
--Development of an e-navigation strategy implementation plan;
--Guidelines on the layout and ergonomic design of safety centers on 
passenger ships;
--Review of vague expressions in the International Convention for the 
Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) regulation V/22;

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--Revision of the Guidance on the application of AIS binary messages;
--Improved safety of pilot transfer arrangements;
--Casualty analysis; and
--Consideration of International Association of Classification 
Societies (IACS) unified interpretations.

    Members of the public may attend the July 8th meeting of the SHC up 
to the seating capacity of the room. Due to security considerations, 
two valid, government-issued photo identification documents must be 
presented to gain entrance to the building. The Coast Guard 
Headquarters building is accessible by taxi and privately owned 
conveyance. Please note that parking in the vicinity of the building is 
extremely limited and that public transportation is not generally 
available.
    To facilitate attendance to this meeting of the SHC, those who plan 
to attend should contact the meeting coordinator, Mr. Edward J. LaRue 
Jr., not later than 4 p.m. on Thursday, July 3, 2009 by e-mail at 
[email protected], by phone at (202) 372-1564, by fax at (202) 
372-1930, or by writing to Commandant (CG-5413), U.S. Coast Guard 
Headquarters, 2100 2nd Street, SW., Room 1409, Washington, DC 20593-
0001. Additional information regarding this and other SHC public 
meetings and associated IMO meetings may be found at: http://www.uscg.mil/imo.

    Dated: May 19, 2009.
Mark Skolnicki,
Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating Committee, Department of 
State.
[FR Doc. E9-12304 Filed 5-26-09; 8:45 am]
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