[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 173 (Friday, September 10, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 50751]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-19525]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 11533]


Notice of Shipping Coordinating Committee Meeting in Preparation 
for International Maritime Organization MSC 104 Meeting

    The Department of State will conduct a public meeting of the 
Shipping Coordinating Committee at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, September 
30, 2021, by way of teleconference. Members of the public may 
participate up to the capacity of the teleconference phone line, which 
can handle 500 participants. To access the teleconference line, 
participants should contact the meeting coordinator, LCDR Jessica 
Anderson, by email at [email protected].
    The primary purpose of the meeting is to prepare for the 104th 
session of the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) Maritime 
Safety Committee (MSC 104) to be held remotely from Monday, October 4, 
2021 to Friday, October 8, 2021.
    The agenda items to be considered at the advisory committee meeting 
mirror those to be considered at MSC 104, and include:

--Adoption of the agenda; report on credentials
--Decisions of other IMO bodies
--Consideration and adoption of amendments to mandatory instruments
--Capacity-building for the implementation of new measures
--Measures to improve domestic ferry safety
--Goal-based new ship construction standards
--Measures to improve domestic ferry safety
--Measures to enhance maritime security
--Piracy and armed robbery against ships
--Unsafe mixed migration by sea
--Formal safety assessment
--Human element, training and watchkeeping (report of the seventh 
session of the Sub-Committee)
--Navigation, communications and search and rescue (report of the 
eighth session of the Sub-Committee)
--Implementation of IMO instruments (report of the seventh session of 
the Sub-Committee)
--Application of the Committee's method of work
--Work programme
--Election of Chair and Vice-Chair for 2022
--Any other business
--Consideration of the report of the Committee on its 104th session

    Please note: The IMO may, on short notice, adjust the MSC 104 
agenda to accommodate the constraints associated with the virtual 
meeting format. Any changes to the agenda will be reported to those 
who RSVP and those in attendance at the meeting.

    Those who plan to participate may contact the meeting coordinator, 
LCDR Jessica Anderson, by email at [email protected], or in 
writing at 2703 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE, Stop 7509, Washington 
DC 20593-7509. Members of the public needing reasonable accommodation 
should advise LCDR Jessica Anderson not later than September 28, 2021. 
Requests made after that date will be considered, but might not be 
possible to fulfill.
    Additional information regarding this and other IMO public meetings 
may be found at: https://www.dco.uscg.mil/IMO.

(Authority: 22 U.S.C. 2656 and 5 U.S.C. 552)

Emily A. Rose,
Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating Committee, Office of Ocean 
and Polar Affairs, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2021-19525 Filed 9-9-21; 8:45 am]
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