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Hearing held March 24, 1993 1 



Statement of: 



Bright, Thomas J., Executive Director, Sea Grant College Program, Texas 



A&M University 6 



Prepared statement 45 



Earle, Dr. Sylvia A., Founder, Deep Ocean Engineering, Inc 7 



Prepared statement 54 



Fields, Hon. Jack, a U.S. Representative from Texas 3 



Fox, Paul J., Chairman, Deep Submergence Science Committee, Universi- 

 ty-National Oceanographic Laboratory System, University of Rhode 



Island 13 



Prepared statement 61 



Hughes, Hon. William J., a U.S. Representative from New Jersey 3 



Ortiz, Hon. Solomon P., a U.S. Representative from Texas, and Chairman, 

 Subcommittee on Oceanography, Gulf of Mexico, and the Outer Conti- 

 nental Shelf 1 



Ostenso, Ned A., Assistant Administrator for Oceanic and Atmospheric 



Research 5 



Prepared statement 41 



Weldon, Hon. Curt, a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 2 



Wicklund, Robert I., Director, Caribbean Marine Research Center, Na- 

 tional Undersea Research Program 16 



Prepared statement 64 



Additional material supplied: 



Centennial, University of Rhode Island: 

 Response to questions of: 



Hon. Solomon P. Ortiz 90 



Hon. Curt Weldon 99 



Deep Ocean Engineering, Inc. (Dr. Sylvia Earle): 

 Response to questions of: 



Hon. Solomon P. Ortiz 85 



Caribbean Marine Research Center, NURP: 

 Response to questions of: 



Hon. Solomon P. Ortiz 102 



Hon. Curt Weldon 104 



NOAA (Ned Ostenso): 



Response to questions of: 



Hon. Solomon P. Ortiz 69 



Hon. Curt Weldon 75 



Texas Sea Grant College Program (Thomas J. Bright): 

 Response to questions of: 



Hon. Solomon P. Ortiz 80 



Hon. Curt Weldon 83 



Communications submitted: 



Subcommittee and Committee staff: Memorandum of March 17, 1993, to 

 Subcommittee members on the creation, structure and funding of the 

 National Undersea Research Program (NURP) 30 



(III) 



