National Policy Planning 



Communicating with Non-Federal Institutions 



In addition to Federal participation in conferences and other meetings 

 involving the marine science community throughout the country, the Council 

 sponsored several meetings to bring the views of the non-Federal sector more 

 directly into the mainstream of public policy. As indicated in Figure XV-1, 

 the marine science community involves a very large number of organizations. 



In January 1968 representatives of 12 leading mining firms were invited 

 to present views on the appropriate role of Federal agencies in encouraging 

 the development of marine minerals in relation to technology for delineating 

 and extracting marine minerals and an administrative-legal-financial frame- 

 work for encouraging offshore private investment. Also in January more than 

 40 senior representatives of government, industry, and our universities 

 exchanged views on the International Decade of Ocean Exploration. 



A March conference at the University of Washington, partially supported 

 by the Council, assembled more than 250 representatives of all parts of the 

 seafood industry (Chapter VI). In April, the Directors of non-Federal 

 marine research laboratories exchanged views with the Vice President and 

 senior government officials on programs such as the International Decade of 

 Ocean Exploration, the Sea Grant Program, and Federal support of aca- 

 demic research. In October, representatives of the following organizations 

 presented their views on national marine policies to Council and agency 

 officials: National Petroleum Council, American Mining Congress, National 

 Fisheries Institute, American Merchant Marine Institute, Aerospace Indus- 

 tries Association of America, Marine Technology Society, National Security 

 Industrial Association, and National Federation of Independent Business. 



In November, a symposium in Williamsburg, Va., organized by the Coun- 

 cil's Committee on Multiple Use of the Coastal Zone provided a forum to 

 gain the views of more than 60 representatives of State and local govern- 

 ments, as well as individual specialists, on steps for improving governmental 

 mechanisms which will enhance use of the Coastal Zone. These views were 

 carefully evaluated in preparing many of the Council recommendations 

 included in Chapter IV, with particular attention to Federal incentives 

 which will encourage the States to develop and carry out programs for 

 rational use of the Coastal Zone in the national interest. 



The 22 States fronting the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Pacific 

 Ocean and the eight States bordering the Great Lakes have created numerous 

 and varied State executive structures for policy and decision-making and 

 administration of marine activities. These mechanisms include Governors' 

 advisory councils and committees and State commissions, authorities, depart- 

 ments, divisions, bureaus, and boards. The bodies may have purely advisory 



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