[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 165 (Monday, August 28, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58631-58632]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-18453]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice: 12162]


Notice of Public Meeting in Preparation for International 
Maritime Organization TC 73 Meeting

    The Department of State will conduct a public meeting at 10:00 a.m. 
on Thursday, October 12, 2023, both in-person at Coast Guard 
Headquarters in Washington, DC, and via teleconference. The primary 
purpose of the meeting is to prepare for the 73rd session of the 
International Maritime Organization's (IMO) Technical Cooperation 
Committee (TC 73) to be held at the IMO Headquarters in London, United 
Kingdom from Monday, October 16, to Thursday, October 19, 2023.
    Members of the public may participate up to the capacity of the 
teleconference phone line, which can handle 500 participants or up to 
the seating capacity of the room if attending in-person. The meeting 
location will be the United States Coast Guard Headquarters, 5PS 
Conference Room, and the teleconference line will be provided to those 
who RSVP. To RSVP, participants should contact the meeting coordinator, 
LT Emily Rowan, by email at [email protected]. LT Rowan will 
provide access information for in-person and virtual attendance.
    The agenda items to be considered at this meeting mirror those to 
be considered at TV 73, and include:

--Adoption of the agenda
--Work of other bodies and organizations
--Technical Cooperation Planning and Reporting
--Resource mobilization and partnerships:
--The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
--The Capacity-Building Decade 2021-2030 Strategy
--Regional presence and coordination
--IMO Member State Audit Scheme
--Capacity-building: Strengthening the impact of women in the maritime 
sector
--Global maritime training institution
--Status of implementation of the recommendations from the report of 
the evaluation of the ITCP activities for the period 2016-2019
--Application of the document on the Organization and method of work of 
the Technical Cooperation Committee
--Work programme
--Election of Chair and Vice-Chair for 2023 and 2024
--Any other business
--Consideration of the report of the Committee on its seventy-third 
session


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    Please note: The IMO may, on short notice, adjust the TC 73 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, 
LT Emily Rowan, by email at [email protected], by phone at (202) 
372-1376, or in writing at United States Coast Guard (CG-5PS), ATTN: LT 
Emily Rowan, 2703 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE, Stop 7509, 
Washington, DC 20593-7509. Members of the public needing reasonable 
accommodation should advise LT Emily Rowan no later than September 28, 
2023. 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)

Leslie W. Hunt,
Coast Guard Liaison Officer, Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs, 
Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2023-18453 Filed 8-25-23; 8:45 am]
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