\1 RON VI ril S WD IK.WM'i >K i \ I li IN 



775 



Milford also mentioned that he had contacted the chairman of the 

 Armed Services Committee, preliminary to exploring whether there 

 was any duplication with the military on aeronautical facilities and 

 what could be done toward sharing wind tunnels and other facilities. 

 On the issue of staff, Milford told his subcommittee: 



I have discussed with Chairman Tcague, and he is in agreement, that a good 

 requirement for this particular subcommittee would he a relatively small staff, legis- 

 lative professionals, and the use of consultants in these particular areas that we start 

 getting into, that we call in a man from industry, or some other source, for three 

 months 01 six months, and then send him back to his job. 



Milford also observed that he hoped some sense could be brought into 

 an overall national transportation policy: 



You've got one mob that runs the roads, and another one the airways, and 

 another one the airplanes, and they're each out for their own round, without stop- 

 ping to tie all of them together into a national transportation system. Hopefully, 

 we might be able to do that in the realm of R. & D. which would lead, then, to the 

 development of a national transportation policy. 



May was a busv month for the subcommittee. Not only were 

 hearings held on the R. & D. portion of the Airport and Airway 

 Development Act, but also testimony was received from all constit- 

 uent agencies of the Department of Transportation. This was termed 

 an "overview" rather than oversight as it amounted to a briefing, 

 which was preceded by staff visits to those agencies. Lloyd presided 

 over one day of the overview hearings as Milford was on the Senate 

 side of the Capitol. This gave Scheuer an opportunity to chair the 

 hearings when Lloyd was called to the floor for consideration of an 

 armed services bill. 



R. & D. FOR THE FAA 



On June 11, the Milford subcommittee met to mark up title II of 

 the Airport and Airwav Development Act (ADAP). Title II recom- 

 mended annual instead of the customary 5-year authorizations for 

 FAA R. &: D., and also made several increases in the FAA R. & D. 

 The subcommittee discussed the future, and the healthy aspects of 

 requiring annual oversight. Lloyd remarked: 



It is going to be a shocker to them. What a change, and I do have a couple of 

 items I would like to ask them about. 



Because of the deadline pressures, the subcommittee had to act with 

 unusual speed, causing Wydler to say at one point: "I am a little 

 nervous with the figures we are throwing in." Goldwater also ex- 

 pressed the need for a more thorough review of FAA R. & D., and 

 confessed that "in the short period of time that we have to look at 

 it. we have not given it a thorough going over, and had an opportunity 



