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have an agreement on migratory fish, we each share the harvest. We 

 have a joint commission on that. 



If anything should endanger that fish migration it would affect 

 Canada exactly as it would affect us. 



I would think that your statement on the international aspects of 

 this was certainly a master piece of understatement, because to me it 

 is vital that we now get into the realm of the disposal of radioactive 

 waste as it is affected by the peaceful use of the atom. 



Now we in our committee have had the very interesting explana- 

 tion of the fii-st nuclear cargo vessel, the Savannah, and the way there 

 will be disposal of the nuclear propulsion waste, and we realize that 

 this thing is on us now, and as our chairman, Mr. Miller, has indi- 

 cated, there are only a limited number of those ships which can be 

 safely allowed to sail on our seas. Certainly we have to start to con- 

 trol them now because various nations are considering nuclear pro- 

 pulsion right now. 



I certainly am very much interested in your thoughtful testimony. 

 I think Mr. Miller has indicated that this committee feels it has a 

 real responsibility in that field to get into oceanography. I am sure 

 the thought you are giving us as a committee will be implemented. 



Mr. Miller. Mr. Lennon. 



]\Ir. Lennon". Mr, Chairman, I wish I were competent to comment 

 on the testimony. I have been greatly impressed by it. It is com- 

 prehensive, thoughtful, and certainly a most intelligent analysis of 

 the situation we are now confronted with. 



I am reminded that just a few weeks ago I had a communica- 

 tion from the executive secretary of the North Carolina Fisheries 

 Association. He had presumably read the bulletin which you may 

 have referred to in your testimony, and he indicated the feeling that 

 the people have in North Carolina with respect to a proposed site 

 just off' our coast near Morehead City, N.C., for the dumping of 

 radioactive materials. 



In his letter he called my attention to the nearness of the Gulf 

 Stream to our entire coast. Of course, as you gentlemen know, we 

 are in the area of the hurricane belt. We had four major hurricanes 

 in a matter of 11 months. The eye of three of them passed within 

 my congressional district coastwise. We know there are sediment 

 and things on the bottom of the ocean beyond the Gulf Stream, as 

 much as 54 miles in some spots off our coast, that the hurricane temp- 

 est brought to our shoreline. This proposal provides for the dump- 

 ing of radioactive material at this possible site within a distance 

 of less than 20 miles from the coast of North Carolina, which is 

 between the coastline and the Gulf Stream. The Gulf Stream would 

 of course carry anything, if it is not anchored to the floor of the 

 ocean, from the Caribbean all the way up the Atlantic coast from 

 one end of it to the other. 



I say to you, Mr. Casey, that I am alerted by what you said, and 

 I shall go back and not only read that again but delve into the matter, 

 because it is of serious consequence if that develops. 



Mr. Pelly. Will the gentleman yield. 



Mr. Lennon, Yes. 



Mr. Pelly. You mentioned the Gulf Stream. We have a Japanese 

 Current. Anything which is done over in Asia or Japan would 

 affect us just the same way that you are referring to. So the inter- 



