National Maritime Sec Adv Comm Meeting – 05-04-09

In Monday’s Federal Register the Coast Guard is announcing that the National Maritime Security Advisory Committee (NMSAC) will be meeting on May 4th, 2009. The day long meeting will be a combination public/closed meeting. The public agenda will be discussed in the morning. The afternoon session will be closed to allow the Committee to address classified national security issues. Written material and requests to address the Committee during the public portion of the meeting should be submitted by April 24th. According to the meeting notice the public agenda will include:

(1) “Update on Transportation Workers Identification Credential. (2) “Update on Seafarers' Access to Shore leave. (3) “Discussion of USCG 5 year review of the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) code. (5) “Discussion of Tiering Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) regulated facilities. (6) “Discussion of the eNOAD process.”

The two issues of probable interest to the chemical security community will be the update on the TWIC and the facility tiering discussion. The tiering issue is discussed briefly in the TWIC Reader ANPRM (74 FR 13367), and I have covered that discussion in an earlier blog.