81 FR 63849 - Notice of Public Meeting in Preparation for the Sixty-Sixth Session of the International Maritime Organization Technical Cooperation Committee

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 180 (September 16, 2016)

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 180 (Friday, September 16, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63849-63850]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-22381]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice: 9721]


Notice of Public Meeting in Preparation for the Sixty-Sixth 
Session of the International Maritime Organization Technical 
Cooperation Committee

    The Department of State will conduct an open meeting at 9:00 a.m. 
on October 6, 2016, in Room 5L18-01 of the Douglas A. Munro Coast Guard 
Headquarters Building at St. Elizabeth's, 2703 Martin Luther King Jr. 
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20593. The primary purpose of the meeting is 
to prepare for the sixty-sixth session of the International Maritime 
Organization's (IMO) Technical Cooperation Committee to be held at the 
IMO Headquarters, United Kingdom, October 10-12, 2016.
    The agenda items to be considered include:

--Integrated Technical Cooperation Programme: Annual Report for 2015
--Sustainable financing of the Integrated Technical Cooperation 
Programme
--The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
    (a) Maritime policy development
    (b) Country Maritime Profiles
    (c) Linkage between the ITCP and the Sustainable Development Goals

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    (d) Revision of the Assembly resolutions relating to technical 
cooperation
--Partnerships:
    (a) Regional presence and coordination
    (b) Partnership arrangements
--Voluntary IMO Member Audit Scheme and IMO Member States Audit Scheme
--Capacity building: Strengthening the impact of women in the maritime 
sector
--Global maritime training institutions
--Impact Assessment Exercise for the period of 2012-2015

    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. To facilitate 
the building security process, and to request reasonable accommodation, 
those who plan to attend should contact the meeting coordinator, LCDR 
Tiffany Duffy, by email at [email protected], by phone at (202) 372-1376, or 
in writing at 2703 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE., Stop 7509, 
Washington, DC 20593-7509 not later than September 29. Requests made 
after September 29, 2016 might not be able to be accommodated. Please 
note that due to security considerations, two valid, government issued 
photo identifications must be presented to gain entrance to the Coast 
Guard Headquarters Building. The Coast Guard Headquarters Building is 
accessible by taxi, public transportation, and privately owned 
conveyance (upon request). Additional information regarding this and 
other IMO public meetings may be found at: www.uscg.mil/imo.

    Dated: September 7, 2016.
Jonathan W. Burby,
Coast Guard Liaison Officer, Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs, 
Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2016-22381 Filed 9-15-16; 8:45 am]
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