[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 99 (Thursday, May 22, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 28097]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-13383]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice No. 2549]


Shipping Coordinating Committee Subcommittee on Safety of Life at 
Sea Working Group on Radiocommunications and Search and Rescue; Notice 
of Meetings

    The Working Group on Radiocommunications and Search and Rescue of 
the Subcommittee on Safety of Life at Sea will conduct open meetings at 
9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 23, September 24, October 15, December 10, 
1997, February 11, and March 18, 1998. These meetings will be held in 
the Department of Transportation Headquarters Building, 400 Seventh 
Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20950. The purpose of these meetings is to 
prepare for, and review the results of, the Third Session of the 
International Maritime Organization (IMO) Subcommittee on 
Radiocommunications and Search and Rescue which is scheduled for the 
week of February 23, 1998, at the IMO headquarters in London, England. 
Among other things, the items of particular interest are:

--The implementation of the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System 
(GMDSS)
--Maritime Search and Rescue matters

    Further information, including meeting agendas with meeting room 
numbers, minutes, and input papers, can be obtained from the Coast 
Guard Navigation Information Center Internet World Wide Web by 
entering:

``http:/www.navcen.uscg.mil/marcomms/imo/imo.htm''

    Members of the public may attend these meetings up to the seating 
capacity of the rooms. Interested persons may seek information, 
including meeting room numbers, by writing: Mr. Ronald J. Grandmaison, 
U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Commandant (G-SCT-2), Room 6509, 2100 
Second Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20593-0001, by calling: (202) 267-
1389, or by sending Internet electronic mail to

[email protected].

    Dated: May 14, 1997.
Russell A. La Mantia,
Chairman, Shipping Coordinating Committee.
[FR Doc. 97-13383 Filed 5-21-97; 8:45 am]
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