OCEANOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES 



FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1959 



House of Representatives, 

 Special Subcommittee ox Oceanography, 

 OF THE Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 



Garderock^ Md. 



The subcommittee met at 10 :25 a.m., pursuant to recess, in the audi- 

 torium, Da\nd Taylor Model Basin, Carderock, Md., Hon. George P. 

 Miller (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. 



Present: Representatives Miller, Oliver, and Tollefson. 



Present also : Representatives Casey and Van Pelt. 



Staff member present : Jolin M. Drewry, cliief counsel. 



Mr. Miller. The committee will be in order. 



I want to say on behalf of the coimnittee and the members of the 

 full committee who took advantage of your invitation to come out 

 here that we are very happy to come out to this great naval installa- 

 tion to hold this phase of our hearings on oceanography. 



I am doub]}^ happy to be here to see my good friend, Admiral 

 Mumma, in the audience, whom I have just reprimanded for leaving 

 the Navy. It is going to be the Navy's loss. 



I want to recognize the fact that some of the members of the in- 

 teragency informal committee on oceanography are here and to tell 

 you that we are happy to know that this committee has been created. 

 At a later date we expect to call on you. The fact that we have not 

 become too well acquainted with you yet is merely because of the 

 press of time in the work of both this committee and other commit- 

 tees on which the members of this committee have to serve. 



We appreciate the value of the contribution that you will make 

 on this all-important subject. 



There is no question but that one of the great problems confront- 

 ing us today nationally, economically, is a better, more comprehensive 

 knowledge of the sea and that which is beneath the surface of the 

 sea. 



The Navy, Coast Guard, the Fish and Wildlife Service have all 

 done a great deal of work and are to be congratulated upon the work 

 that they have done in this field. We have to coordinate it. We 

 have to go further. 



At this time I am sure that I reflect the thinking of the committee 

 when I say that we do not know whether it is going to be necessary 

 to have additional legislation or not. Maybe we have all the legisla- 

 tion that is necessary presently on the statute books. "Wliat we are 

 going to need is money to implement the very fine programs that have 

 been laid out and that can be done within the framework of present 

 law. 



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