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recognition of the group will be forthcoming from tlie Federal Council on 

 Science and Technology. 

 4. The OflSce of Naval Research will provide the clerical assistance for the 



ceo. 



R. Bennett. 



Conclusions 



The results of the meeting are as follows : 



1. The agencies agree that the NAS-NRC Committee on Oceanography has 

 issued a report of prime significance which must be carefully considered. Most 

 agencies are not yet prepared to commit themselves on the budgets presented 

 in "Chapter 1 : Summary Report on Oceanography." 



2. In the discussion of the requirement for a formal interagency Committee 

 on Oceanography, it developed that one was not required at this time. Com- 

 mittees of this type require an Executive order for their establishment, and 

 are necessarily very high level. The experience has been that they are not 

 very successful. 



3. It was concluded that the functioning interagency informal Coordinating 

 Committee on Oceanography (CCO) should be enlarged, and retained. In addi- 

 tion, another committee should be formed at the next higher level of Government 

 to include representatives who are involved with initial budget formulation. 

 The new committee would meet once or twice a year to consider recommenda- 

 tions of the CCO. 



4. It was agreed that the Department of the Navy would take the lead in 

 requesting the establishment of the new committee. Accordingly, each agency 

 was requested to suggest the names of possible members. 



DisTraBUTioN List 

 Department of Defense : 



J. M. Bridges, Ofiice of Secretary of Defense (Research and Development). 



Benton Schaub, Office of Electronics. 



Willis B. Foster, Office of Science. 

 Department of Defense — Air Force : 



Lt. Col. Marshall V. Jamison, Geophysics Branch, AFDRD. 



Lt. Col. Lewis DeGoes, Chief, Terrestrial Science Laboratory, Geophysics 

 Research Directorate, Cambridge, Mass. 

 Department of Defense — Army : 



Leonard S. Wilson, Geophysics Branch Army Research. 



Joseph Cloyd, transportation. 



Joseph Caldwell, Cori>s of Engineers, Beach Erosion Board. 

 Department of State : 



AVallace Erode, science adviser. 



Carl W. Flesher, Assistant Deputy Director for Technical Services. 

 Department of Interior : 



Thomas B. Nolan, Director, Geological Survey. 



Donald L. McKernan, Director. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. 



Sydney Gottley, Bureau of Mines, head, technical program. 

 Department of Treasury : 



Capt. George Miller, U.S. Coast Guard. 



Lt. Comdr. Paul Lutz, U.S. Coast Guard. 

 Department of Commerce : 



D. C. Leavens, staff assistant, program coordinator for transportation. 



Rear Adm. Charles Pierce. Assistant Director, Coast and Geodetic Survey. 



Francis W. Reichelderfer, Chief, Weather Bureau. 



Charles Dennison, research coordinator. Maritime. 



Rear Adm. H. Arnold Karo, Director, Coast and Geodetic Survey. 

 Department of Health, Education, and Welfare : 



Harry G. Hanson, Assistant Surgeon General and Director, Robert A. Taft 

 Sanitary Research Center, Public Health Service, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Henry H. Armsby, Chief for Engineering Education. 

 Presidential Advisory Committee for Science and Technology : 



J. R. Killian, Jr., special a.ssistant to the President. 



David Beckler, executive director. 



