[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 46 (Thursday, March 7, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16607-16608]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-04894]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice: 12357]


Notice of a Public Meeting in Preparation for International 
Maritime Organization Facilitation Committee (FAL), 48th Session

    The Department of State will conduct a public meeting at 9:00 a.m. 
on Tuesday, April 2, 2023, by way of Microsoft Teams, teleconference, 
and in-person at the offices of ABSG Consulting in Washington, DC. The 
primary purpose of the meeting is to prepare for the forty-eighth 
session of the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) Facilitation 
Committee (FAL 48) to be held in person at IMO Headquarters in London, 
United Kingdom, and in hybrid format from Monday, April 8, 2024, to 
Friday, April 12, 2024.
    Members of the public may participate in-person, via Microsoft 
Teams, or up to the capacity of the teleconference phone line. To RSVP, 
participants should contact the meeting coordinator, Mr. James Bull, by 
email at [email protected]. The meeting location will be the 
offices of ABSG Consulting at 80 M Street SE, Washington, DC 20003 and 
the Microsoft Teams access and/or teleconference line will be provided 
to those who RSVP.
    The agenda items to be considered at this meeting include:

--Adoption of the agenda; report on credentials
--Decisions of other IMO bodies
--Consideration and adoption of amendments to the Convention
--Review and update of the Explanatory Manual to the FAL Convention
--Application of single window concept
--Review and revision of the IMP Compendium of Facilitation and 
Electronic Business, including additional e-business solutions
--Development of guidelines on Port Community Systems
--Measures to address Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) in the 
instruments under the purview of the Facilitation Committee
--Development of guidelines for the prevention and suppression of the 
smuggling of wildlife on ships engaged in international maritime 
traffic
--Introduction of the API/PNR concept in maritime transport
--Analysis of possible means of auditing compliance with the Convention 
on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic
--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 or 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 2024
--Any other business
--Consideration of the report of the Committee on its forty-eighth 
session

    Those who plan to participate may contact the meeting coordinator, 
Mr. James Bull, by email at [email protected] or in writing at 2703 
Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE, Stop 7501, Washington, DC 20593-7501. 
Members of the public needing reasonable accommodation should advise 
James Bull not later than March 19, 2024. 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.


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(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. 2024-04894 Filed 3-6-24; 8:45 am]
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