Coast Guard July 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This notice announces a teleconference of the Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory Committee (MERPAC). The purpose of the teleconference is for MERPAC to discuss and prepare recommendations for the Coast Guard concerning paragraph III.B.1 and III.B.2 of its Task Statement 64, Comprehensive Review of the STCW Convention and the STCW Code. MERPAC provides advice and makes recommendations to the Coast Guard on matters related to the training, qualification, licensing, certification, and fitness of seamen serving in the U.S. merchant marine.