[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 184 (Friday, September 23, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 58176]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-20639]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice: 11865]


Notice of Shipping Coordinating Committee Meeting in Preparation 
for International Maritime Organization MSC 106 Meeting

    The Department of State will conduct a public meeting of the 
Shipping Coordinating Committee at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 26, 
2022, by way of both in-person at Coast Guard Headquarters in 
Washington, DC and teleconference. The primary purpose of the meeting 
is to prepare for the one-hundred sixth session of the International 
Maritime Organization's (IMO) Maritime Safety Committee (MSC 106) to be 
held at IMO Headquarters in London, United Kingdom from Wednesday, 
November 2, 2022 to Friday November 11, 2022.
    Members of the public may participate in-person or 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]. The meeting location will be the United 
States Coast Guard Headquarters, Ray Evans Conference Room, ANTE-LL6 
and the teleconference line will be provided to those who RSVP.
    The agenda items to be considered by the advisory committee at this 
meeting mirror those to be considered at MSC 106, and include:

--Opening of the session
--Adoption of the agenda; report on credentials
--Decisions of other IMO bodies
--Consideration and adoption of amendments to mandatory instruments
--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
--Human element, training and watchkeeping (Urgent matters emanating 
from the eighth session of the Sub-Committee)
--Ship systems and equipment (Report of the eighth session of the Sub-
Committee)
--Pollution prevention and response (matters emanating from the ninth 
session of the Sub-Committee)
--Navigation, communications and search and rescue (report of the ninth 
session of the Sub-Committee)
--Implementation of IMO instruments (Report of the eighth session of 
the Sub-Committee)
--Application of the Committee's method of work
--Work programme
--Election of the Chair and Vice-Chair for 2023
--Any other business
--Consideration of the report of the Committee on its 106th session

    Please note: The IMO may, on short notice, adjust the MSC 106 
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 October 19, 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)

Gregory J. O'Brien,
Senior Oceans Policy Advisor, Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs, 
Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2022-20639 Filed 9-22-22; 8:45 am]
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