[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 43 (Tuesday, March 7, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12879-12880]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-04422]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 9909]


 Notice of Public Meeting

    The Department of State will conduct an open meeting at 9:00 a.m. 
on Wednesday, March 22, 2017, at the offices of ABS Consulting, 1525 
Wilson Boulevard, Suite 625, Arlington, Virginia 22209. The primary 
purpose of the meeting is to prepare for the forty-first session of the 
International Maritime Organization's (IMO) Facilitation Committee to 
be held at the

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IMO Headquarters, United Kingdom, April 4-7, 2017.
    The agenda items to be considered include:

--Decisions of other IMO bodies
--Consideration and adoption of proposed amendments to the Convention
--Review and update the Explanatory Manual to the FAL Convention
--Application of single-window concept
--Measures to protect the safety of persons rescued at sea
--Unsafe mixed migration by sea
--Consideration and analysis of reports and information on persons 
rescued at sea and stowaways
--Guidelines on the facilitation aspects of protecting the maritime 
transport network from cyberthreats
--Technical cooperation activities related to facilitation of maritime 
traffic
--Relations with other organizations
--Application of the Committee's procedures on organization and method 
of work
--Work programme
--Any other business

    Members of the public may attend this meeting up to the seating 
capacity of the room. Upon request to the meeting coordinator, members 
of the public may also participate via teleconference, up to the 
capacity of the teleconference phone line. To access the teleconference 
line, participants should call (202) 475-4000 and use Participant Code: 
887 809 72. To facilitate the building security process, and to request 
reasonable accommodation, those who plan to attend should contact the 
meeting coordinator, Mr. James Bull, by email at [email protected], 
by phone at (202) 372-1144, or in writing at 2703 Martin Luther King 
Jr. Ave SE., Stop 7509, Washington, DC 20593-7509 not later than March 
15, 2017. Requests made after March 15, 2017 might not be able to be 
accommodated. The ABS Consulting office is accessible by taxi, public 
transportation, and privately owned conveyance if parking is arranged 
in advance with the meeting coordinator. In the case of inclement 
weather where the Federal Government is closed or delayed, a public 
meeting may be conducted virtually. The meeting coordinator will 
confirm whether the virtual public meeting will be utilized at: 
www.uscg.mil/imo. Members of the public can find out whether the 
Federal Government is delayed or closed by visiting www.opm.gov/status/
. Additional information regarding this and other IMO public meetings 
may be found at: www.uscg.mil/imo.

Jonathan W. Burby,
Coast Guard Liaison Officer, Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs, 
Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2017-04422 Filed 3-6-17; 8:45 am]
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