National Maritime Security Advisory Committee Meeting 1-19-11

The Coast Guard published a notice in today’s Federal Register announcing a meeting of the National Maritime Security Advisory Committee (NMSAC) on January 19th and 20th. The meeting in Arlington, VA will be open to the public. While there will be very limited seating available at the meeting site, the public will also be able to hear the meeting via teleconference or observe the meeting on-line.

The Agenda for this meeting includes:

• Port Security Grants
• Global Supply Chain Security Policy Efforts
• Update to the Maritime Infrastructure Recovery Plan and the Maritime Transportation System Security Recommendations
• Results of Maritime Transportation Security Act Tasking

The teleconference will be available at 866-717-0091 (Access Code - 3038389#). The on-line access will be available via the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) at https://connect.hsin.gov/uscgnmsac/.

Members of the public wishing to make oral presentations at the meeting or provide written comments to be distributed to the committee members must contact the ADFO (ryan.f.owens@uscg.mil) by January 11th, 2011. Written comments may also be submitted via the Federal eRulemaking Portal (http://www.regulations.gov/, Docket Number USCG-2010-1005).