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

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 185 (Thursday, September 24, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51113-51114]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-25589]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice No. 2897]


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 AM on Wednesday, October 7, and December 9, 1998, February 17, 
March 31, and June 30, 1999. These meetings will be held in the 
Department of Transportation Headquarters Building, 400 Seventh

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Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20950. The purpose of these meetings is to 
prepare for the Fourth Session of the International Maritime 
Organization (IMO) Subcommittee on Radiocommunications and Search and 
Rescue which is scheduled for the week of July 12, 1999, 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: ``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 
rgrandmaison@comdt.uscg.mil.

    Dated: August 20, 1998.
Susan K. Bennett,
Chairman, Shipping Coordinating Committee.
[FR Doc. 98-25589 Filed 9-23-98; 8:45 am]
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