[Federal Register: February 6, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 25)]
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Notice Number 3883]
Shipping Coordinating Committee; Notice of Meeting
The Shipping Coordinating Committee, will conduct an open meeting
at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, February 26, 2002, in Room 2415 at U.S. Coast
Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second Street, SW., Washington, DC. The
purpose of this meeting will be to review the agenda items to be
considered at the forty-seventh Session of the International Maritime
Organization (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 47) to
be held at the IMO headquarters in London from 4 through 8 March 2002.
Proposed U.S. positions on the agenda items for MEPC 47 will be
discussed. The major items for discussion for MEPC 47 include the
following:
a. Harmful aquatic organisms in ballast water;
b. Recycling of ships;
c. Prevention of air pollution from ships;
d. Implementation of the Convention on the Prevention on Oil
Pollution Preparedness, Response and Co-operation (OPRC) and the OPRC
Protocol on Preparedness, Response and Co-operation to Pollution
Incidents by Hazardous and Noxious Substances, 2000 and relevant
conference resolutions;
e. Interpretation and amendments of Convention on the Prevention of
Oil Pollution from Ships (MARPOL 73/78) and related Codes;
f. Harmful effects of the use of anti-fouling paints for ships;
g. Identification and protection of Special Areas and Particularly
Sensitive Sea Areas;
h. Inadequacy of reception facilities;
i. Promotion of implementation and enforcement of MARPOL 73/78 and
related Codes;
j. Preparation for the Ten-Year Review Conference of the United
Nations Conference on Environment and Development (RIO+10);
k. Future role of formal safety assessment and human element
issues; and
l. Matters related to the 1973 Intervention Protocol.
Please note that hard copies of documents associated with MEPC 47
will not be available at this meeting. Documents will be available in
Adobe Acrobat format on CD-ROM on the day of the meeting. To requests
documents prior to the meeting date, please write to the address
provided below or download the documents from our web site.
Members of the public are invited to attend this meeting up to the
seating capacity of the room. For further information, or to submit
views in advance of the meeting, please contact Lieutenant Dave Beck,
U.S. Coast Guard, Environmental Standards Division (G-MSO-4), 2100
Second Street, SW., Washington, DC 20593-0001; telephone (202) 267-
0713; fax (202) 267-4690, e-mail dbeck@comdt.uscg.mil; or on-line at:
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-m/mso/mso4/mepc.html.
Dated: January 28, 2002.
Stephen M. Miller,
Executive Secretary, Shipping Coordinating Committee, Department of
State.
[FR Doc. 02-2861 Filed 2-5-02; 8:45 am]
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