[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 44 (Monday, March 8, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11079-11080]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-5620]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice No. 2996]


Shipping Coordinating Committee Subcommittee on Safety of Life at 
Sea Working Group on Stability and Load Lines and on Fishing Vessels 
Safety; Notice of Meeting

    The Working Group on Stability and Load Lines and on Fishing 
Vessels Safety of the Subcommittee on Safety of Life at Sea will 
conduct an open meeting at 1 p.m. on Thursday, April 1, 1999, in Room 
6103, at U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second Street, SW., 
Washington, DC 20593-0001. This meeting will discuss the upcoming 43rd 
Session of the Subcommittee on Stability and Load Lines and on Fishing 
Vessels Safety (SLF) and associated bodies of the International 
Maritime Organization (IMO) which is tentatively scheduled for 
September 11-15, 2000, at the IMO Headquarters in London, England.

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    Items of discussion will include the following:
    a. Review of results from SLF 42,
    b. Harmonization of damage stability provisions in the IMO 
instruments,
    c. Safety aspects of ships engaged in a ballast water exchange,
    d. Revision of the technical regulations of Load Lines Convention, 
and
    e. Development of the damage consequence diagrams for inclusion in 
damage control plan guidelines.
    Members of the public may attend this meeting up to the seating 
capacity of the room. Interested persons may seek information by 
writing: Mr. Paul Cojeen, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Commandant (G-
MSE-2), Room 1308, 2100 Second Street, SW., Washington, DC 20593-0001 
or by calling (202) 267-2988.

    Dated: March 2, 1999.
Stephen M. Miller,
Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating Committee.
[FR Doc. 99-5620 Filed 3-5-99; 8:45 am]
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