[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 129 (Wednesday, July 7, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 39089]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-16516]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice: 7008]


Shipping Coordinating Committee; Notice of Committee Meeting

    The Shipping Coordinating Committee (SHC) will conduct an open 
meeting at 0930 on Wednesday July 22, 2010, in Room 51309 of the United 
States Coast Guard Headquarters Building, 2100 Second Street, SW., 
Washington, DC 20593-0001. The primary purpose of the meeting is to 
prepare for the fifty-sixth Session of the International Maritime 
Organization (IMO) Subcommittee on Safety of Navigation to be held at 
the IMO Headquarters, London, United Kingdom, from July 26 to July 30, 
2010.
    The primary matters to be considered include:

--Adoption of the agenda
--Decisions of other IMO bodies
--Routing of ships, ship reporting and related matters
--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
--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
--New symbols for AIS aids to navigation
--Amendments to the Worldwide Radionavigation System
--Review of the principles for establishing the safe manning level of 
ships including mandatory requirements for determining safe manning
--Amendments to the 1966 Loadline Convention (LL) and the 1988 LL 
Protocol related to seasonal zone
--Casualty analysis
--Consideration of International Association of Classification 
Societies (IACS) unified interpretations

    Members of the public may attend this meeting up to the seating 
capacity of the room. To facilitate the building security process and 
to request reasonable accommodation, those who plan to attend should 
contact the meeting coordinator, Mr. Edward J. LaRue Jr., by e-mail at 
[email protected], by phone at (202) 372-1564, by fax at (202) 
372-1930, or in writing at Commandant (CG-5533), U.S. Coast Guard, 2100 
2nd Street, SW., Stop 7581, Washington, DC 20593-7581, 7 days prior to 
the meeting. Please note that due to security considerations, two 
valid, government issued photo identifications must be presented to 
gain entrance to the Headquarters building. The Headquarters building 
is accessible by taxi and privately owned conveyance (public 
transportation is not generally available). However, parking in the 
vicinity of the building is extremely limited. Additional information 
regarding this and other IMO SHC public meetings may be found at: 
http://www.uscg.mil/imo.

    Dated: June 30, 2010.
Jon Trent Warner,
Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating Committee, Department of 
State.
[FR Doc. 2010-16516 Filed 7-6-10; 8:45 am]
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