The Department of State will conduct a meeting, open to the public, led by the Coast Guard. The primary purpose of the meeting is to prepare for the sixth session of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Construction (SDC 6) to be held at the IMO Headquarters, London, United Kingdom, Feb. 4-8, 2019.

Public meeting details:

Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: Douglas A. Munro Coast Guard Headquarters Building at St. Elizabeth’s
2703 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE, Washington, DC, 20593

Members of the public may register to attend this meeting up to the seating capacity of the room. To facilitate the building security process, and to request reasonable accommodation, those who plan to attend should contact the meeting coordinator, Lt. Jonathan Duffett by Jan. 9, 2019:

Email: Jonathan.B.Duffett@uscg.mil
Phone: (202) 372-1022
In writing: 2703 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE, Stop 7509, Washington DC 20593-7509

Requests made after January 9 might not be able to be accommodated. Two valid, government-issued photo IDs must be presented to gain entrance to the Coast Guard Headquarters building.

Topics to be covered include:

– Revised SOLAS regulation II-1/3-8 and associated guidelines (MSC.1/Circ.1175) and new guidelines for safe mooring operations for all ships
– Review SOLAS chapter II-1, parts B-2 to B-4, to ensure consistency with parts B and B-1 with regard to watertight integrity
– Finalization of second generation intact stability criteria
– Mandatory instrument and/or provisions addressing safety standards for the carriage of more than 12 industrial personnel on board vessels engaged on international voyages
– Amendments to the 2011 ESP Code
– Safety measures for non-SOLAS ships operating in polar waters
– Unified interpretation to provisions of IMO safety, security, and environment-related Convention

For more information on this, or any other International Maritime Organization meeting, visit the Coast Guard’s IMO Homepage.

View the Federal Register Notice for additional meeting registration instructions and full details on the agenda.

This blog is not a replacement or substitute for the formal posting of regulations and updates or existing processes for receiving formal feedback of the same. Links provided on this blog will direct the reader to official source documents, such as the Federal Register, Homeport and the Code of Federal Regulations. These documents remain the official source for regulatory information published by the Coast Guard.