Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory Committee

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A working group of the Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory Committee (MERPAC) will meet to discuss Task Statement 52, "Recommendations on the Coast Guard's Draft Proposals on Issues That Will Be Affected by the Revisions to the 1997 Interim Rule Implementing the 1978 STCW Convention, as amended." MERPAC advises the Secretary of Homeland Security on matters relating to the training, qualifications, licensing, certification, and fitness of seamen serving in the U.S. merchant marine. This meeting will be open to the public.