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Mr. Bauer. Now I have one more question. You mentioned in your 

 statement that you would require authorization to enlarge your activi- 

 ties. Do you mean a remo\al of limitation similar to that was placed 

 on the Coast and Cieodetic Survey' to work within the continental 

 limits ? 



Mr. Cloit). a removal of the area limitation. 



Mr. Bauer. Thank you. That is all. 



Mr. Miller. Mr. Oliver ? 



I defer to you because the Gulf of Maine was mentioned liere so 

 that you have the floor. 



Mr. Oliver. Thank you veiy much, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate 

 that consideration. I am sure we could not say too much about the 

 needs of the Gulf of Maine. Doctor, I hope that some day we can get 

 together and talk about it and do something about some of the defi- 

 ciencies that exist in the area. 



I would like to ask this question, however. Is Geological Survey 

 a member of this Interagency Committee? 



Mr. Cloud. Yes. 



Mr. Olr-er. You were on the temporary committee also ? 



Mr. Cloud. "We have representatives on the Federal Council and on 

 the Committee on Oceanography of the Federal Council. 



Mr. OLI^•ER. What I refer to now is the Interagency Committee set 

 up here under the Federal Council, I belie^■e. 



Mr. Cloud. I think they call that the Committee on Oceanograpii}^ 

 of the Federal Council, do they not ? 



Yes, we have a representative on that committee. 



Mr. Oli\'er. Do you feel that this is a step in the right direction ? 



Mr. Cloud. I think this is very much a step in the right direction. 



Mr. Oliat:r. Do you feel that it goes far enough ? 



Mr. Cloud. Yes, I feel that it goes far enough. I think tiiat the 

 work that this committee here has done and that the Xational Acad- 

 emy Committee on Oceanography has done in bringing to the atten- 

 tion of the bureaus and the departments the need for more activity in 

 this area has encouraged all of us to look toward an expanded effort 

 in oceanography and to ask for more money. 



Mr. Oliver. I notice in your statement here that you talk about 

 fiscal 19G1, that present plans do call for increasing your research ac- 

 tivities of an oceanographic nature to about $600,000. 



Mr. Cloud. That is the shell of the peanut. 



Has that increase really been f inided ? 

 No, the increase has not as yet l^een funded. 

 But it is in the budget I 

 It is in the budget. 

 Did you ask through your budgetary control for moi-e 



, I cannot answer that question. In 1958, when the 

 Geological Survey supplemental appropriation bill came before the 

 Congress with departmental approv<al we asked for $3 million in that 

 bill. This was cut in half to a million and a half dollars. We had 

 four oceanogi-aphic items in that proposal of which one has not been 

 activated and two have been activated and continued at a vei-y much 

 reduced scale. 



Mr. Oliver. Would you feel that if in the place of this Interagency 

 Committee we had a mechanism which placed more stress upon ocean- 



