[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 50 (Tuesday, March 15, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14608-14609]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-05434]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice: 11678]


Notice of Shipping Coordinating Committee Meeting in Preparation 
for International Maritime Organization MSC 105 Meeting

    The Department of State will conduct a public meeting of the 
Shipping Coordinating Committee at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 13, 
2022, by way of teleconference. The primary purpose of the meeting is 
to prepare for the one-hundred fifth session of the International 
Maritime Organization's (IMO) Maritime Safety Committee (MSC 105) to be 
held virtually from Wednesday, April 20, 2022 to Friday April 22, 2022 
and Monday, April 25, 2022 to Friday, April 29, 2022.
    Members of the public may participate up to the capacity of the 
teleconference phone line, which can handle 500 participants. To RSVP, 
participants should contact the meeting coordinator, LCDR Jessica 
Anderson, by email at [email protected]. To access the 
teleconference line, participants should call (202) 475-4000 and use 
Participant Code: 877 239 87#.
    The agenda items to be considered at the advisory committee meeting 
mirror those to be considered at MSC 105, and include:

--Adoption of the agenda; report on credentials
--Decisions of other IMO bodies
--Consideration and adoption of amendments to mandatory instruments
--Measures to improve domestic ferry safety
--Development of further measures to enhance safety of ships relating 
to the use of fuel oil
--Goal-based new ship construction standards
--Development of a goal-based instrument for Maritime Autonomous 
Surface Ships (MASS)
--Measures to enhance maritime security
--Piracy and armed robbery against ships
--Unsafe mixed migration by sea
--Formal safety assessment
--Cost implications for MSI and SAR information providers concerning 
the recognition of multiple GMDSS mobile satellite services
--Implementation of IMO instruments (Report of the seventh session of 
the Sub-Committee)
--Carriage of cargoes and containers (Report of the seventh session of 
the Sub-Committee)

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--Ship design and construction (Report of the eighth session of the 
Sub-Committee)
--Human element, training and watchkeeping (Urgent matters emanating 
from the eighth session of the Sub-Committee)
--Application of the Committee's method of work
--Work programme
--Any other business
--Consideration of the report of the Committee on its 105th session

    Please note: The IMO may, on short notice, adjust the MSC 105 
agenda to accommodate the constraints associated with the virtual 
meeting format. Any changes to the agenda will be reported to those who 
RSVP.
    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 April 6, 2022. 
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. 2022-05434 Filed 3-14-22; 8:45 am]
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