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of the Commerce Subcommittee on Health and Environment, and also 

 publicly announced that "we share jurisdiction" with the Rogers 

 subcommittee: 



We have worked cooperatively and effectivel) with that committee prcv iously, 

 and I have every intention ol continuing in thai cooperative mode. 



After hearing Dr. Donald Frederickson, Director of the National 

 Institutes of Health and several of his associates, Brown informed all 

 of his subcommittee members: 



Their testimony presented one basic problem with their budget. That is the 

 it certain specially trained scientists necessary to carry out research on 

 health effects of environmental pollutants The most critical manpower shortages 

 are in the areas ol epidemiology and toxicology. 



This corroborates testimony that we have heard previously, especially at the 

 hearings on the Effects of ( hronic Exposure to Low Level Pollutants 



Since OMB had cut the training programs, the subcommittee felt that 

 increases of about $1 million a year for training were in order, and 

 these recommendations were ratified by the House Budget Committee. 

 This process was repeated in 1978. 



OCEAN DUMPING REVISITED 



Based on the effective groundwork laid during 1975 and 1976, the 

 subcommittee achieved another victory in 1977 with the passage of the 

 Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act Reauthorization. 

 The prior hearings on ocean dumping formed a useful background for 

 consideration of this legislation, along with the House Committee 

 on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. In 1977, the bill was sequentially 

 referred to the Science Committee, and in following years the Science 

 Committee was accorded joint referral. This entailed a recommenda- 

 tion by the Brown subcommittee on that section of the bill pertaining 

 to oceanic research and development. 



The jurisdictional relationship with the Merchant Marine Com- 

 mittee was not as smooth on this issue as with other cooperative 

 relationships. Since the Merchant Marine Committee had historically 

 handled this legislation prior to the 1974 reorganization of House 

 committees, and had also handled the bill in 1975, perhaps it should 

 have come as no surprise that it was referred to that committee again 

 in 1977. With Teague in the hospital for major surgery, Brown had to 

 carry the ball to establish the jurisdiction of the Science Committee. 

 Teague signed a letter to Speaker O'Neill, and Brown wrote to Rep- 

 resentative John M. Murphy (Democrat of New York) — chairman 

 of the Merchant Marine Committee — and other ranking members of 

 the Merchant Marine Committee. They based their argument on several 

 points: (1) the colloquy between Hechler and Mrs. Hansen during 



