[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 82 (Friday, April 27, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 18617]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-08880]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 10402]


Notice of Public Meeting

    The Department of State will conduct an open meeting at 9:00 a.m. 
on Thursday, May 24, 2018, 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-second session of 
the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) Facilitation Committee 
to be held at the IMO Headquarters, United Kingdom, June 5-8, 2018.
    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
--Review and revision of the IMO Compendium on Facilitation and 
Electronic Business
--Developing guidance for authentication, integrity and confidentiality 
of content for the purpose of exchange via a maritime single window
--Update the guidelines for setting up a single window system in 
maritime transport
--Unsafe mixed migration by sea
--Consideration and analysis of reports and information on persons 
rescued at sea and stowaways
--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 program
--Election of Chair and Vice-Chair for 2019
--Any other business
    Members of the public may attend this meeting up to the seating 
capacity of 30 for 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, which will handle 500 
participants. To access the teleconference line, participants should 
call (202) 475-4000 and use Participant Code: 764 990 20#. 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 May 17, 
2018, seven days prior to the meeting. Requests made after May 17, 
2018, might not be able to be accommodated. The ABS Consulting office 
is accessible by taxi, public transportation, and privately owned 
conveyance.
    Additional information regarding this and other IMO public meetings 
may be found at: https://www.dco.uscg.mil/IMO.

Joel C. Coito,
Coast Guard Liaison Officer, Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs, 
Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2018-08880 Filed 4-26-18; 8:45 am]
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