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and I so stated in my statement, sir. I do not think that anyone can 

 quarrel with the objectives as set out in the report, sir, 



Mr. Lennon, Has the Coast Guard, over any reasonable period of 

 time, in the last 5 or 10 years recognized the need for such an objec- 

 tive study as this ? 



Admiral Kichmond. Well, the objective study is in general terms. 

 I have pointed out in my statement the Coast Guard has in its own 

 right been limited. We have thought only in terms of how it would 

 serve the Coast Guard in the discharge of its duties. 



Mr. Lennon. It is your thinking, certainly, that in the future this 

 committee or whatever committee has the legislative jurisdiction over 

 this overall problem and its many facets would have to think in 

 terms of a coordinating committee of Government agencies affected 

 by such a survey ? 



Admiral Richmond. I can see no other answer to it myself, sir. 



This is not in criticism of the report, but in the actual operating 

 procedure of how you would implement this report there are a 

 great many gaps in how it is going to be worked out, sir. 



Mr. Lennon. Do you believe that the Coast Guard would be inter- 

 ested in participating to any appreciable degree in such a program 

 as has been indicated by the report of this committee ? 



Admiral Richmond. I do not think there is any doubt about it, 

 sir. As I have indicated, in one way we are already in the field; 

 true, in a very limited way. It is a very small part but I think that 

 the studies that we have made in the conduct of this ice patrol and 

 in performing a better ice patrol have already contributed to the 

 knowledge of oceanography. 



Mr. Lennon. That is the very reason that I was a little bit sur- 

 prised to hear you say that so far as you knew the Coast Guard had 

 not been brought into this study by this committee. Naturally, in 

 my limited knowledge, I would think that your organization or 

 agency would be the first one that I would want to contact to get the 

 background of your knowledge and experience and experiments that 

 had been made over the period of years even though limited. 



Admiral Richmond. Well, as I have also indicated, such informa- 

 tion as we have been able to gather in our rather limited research 

 are a matter of public record and all of the members that sat on this 

 committee were, I am sure, fully conversant with those reports. 



Mr. Lennon. Would you be willing to assign someone in your 

 Department to give some study to the type of committee and as to 

 what agencies should be represented on the coordinating committee 

 for this subcommittee's consideration ? 



Admiral Richmond. I agree with you that that has to come if we 

 are going to do anything about it. We have to have a coordinating 

 committee at the top level representing these affected agencies. 



Mr. Lennon. Would you be in position to assign someone in your 

 staff the study of it so that you can make recommendations to this 

 committee as to what agencies would be included in an overall 

 coordinating committee? 



Admiral Richmond. Certainly, sir. 



Mr. Lennon. And give some background material as to why you 

 think that those agencies ought to be brought into this committee? 



Admiral Richmond. We can do that very readily, sir. 



