[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 43 (Tuesday, March 7, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12879-12880]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-04422]
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice 9909]
Notice of Public Meeting
The Department of State will conduct an open meeting at 9:00 a.m.
on Wednesday, March 22, 2017, at the offices of ABS Consulting, 1525
Wilson Boulevard, Suite 625, Arlington, Virginia 22209. The primary
purpose of the meeting is to prepare for the forty-first session of the
International Maritime Organization's (IMO) Facilitation Committee to
be held at the
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IMO Headquarters, United Kingdom, April 4-7, 2017.
The agenda items to be considered include:
--Decisions of other IMO bodies
--Consideration and adoption of proposed amendments to the Convention
--Review and update the Explanatory Manual to the FAL Convention
--Application of single-window concept
--Measures to protect the safety of persons rescued at sea
--Unsafe mixed migration by sea
--Consideration and analysis of reports and information on persons
rescued at sea and stowaways
--Guidelines on the facilitation aspects of protecting the maritime
transport network from cyberthreats
--Technical cooperation activities related to facilitation of maritime
traffic
--Relations with other organizations
--Application of the Committee's procedures on organization and method
of work
--Work programme
--Any other business
Members of the public may attend this meeting up to the seating
capacity of the room. Upon request to the meeting coordinator, members
of the public may also participate via teleconference, up to the
capacity of the teleconference phone line. To access the teleconference
line, participants should call (202) 475-4000 and use Participant Code:
887 809 72. To facilitate the building security process, and to request
reasonable accommodation, those who plan to attend should contact the
meeting coordinator, Mr. James Bull, by email at [email protected],
by phone at (202) 372-1144, or in writing at 2703 Martin Luther King
Jr. Ave SE., Stop 7509, Washington, DC 20593-7509 not later than March
15, 2017. Requests made after March 15, 2017 might not be able to be
accommodated. The ABS Consulting office is accessible by taxi, public
transportation, and privately owned conveyance if parking is arranged
in advance with the meeting coordinator. In the case of inclement
weather where the Federal Government is closed or delayed, a public
meeting may be conducted virtually. The meeting coordinator will
confirm whether the virtual public meeting will be utilized at:
www.uscg.mil/imo. Members of the public can find out whether the
Federal Government is delayed or closed by visiting www.opm.gov/status/
. Additional information regarding this and other IMO public meetings
may be found at: www.uscg.mil/imo.
Jonathan W. Burby,
Coast Guard Liaison Officer, Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs,
Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2017-04422 Filed 3-6-17; 8:45 am]
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