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program including basic research, but also including attention to the 

 development of new marine resources, to problems in radioactive 

 waste disposal, and hydrographic survejing. The TENOC report, 

 on the other hand, is concerned onh" with basic and applied contract 

 research in which the Navy has specific interest. It is possible, how- 

 ever, to compare the TENOC recommendations with the particular 

 segment of the NASCO report allocated by the Coimuittec on Ocea- 

 nography as a Navv responsibilitv and this comparison is given in 

 Table 24. 



Table 24.- — Comparison oj Navy opcralinq hndgets proposed by NASCO and 



TEXOC 1 



[In millions of dollars] 



1 New obllgational authority, not including amounts for new ships. 



* Includes some amounts for inhouse basic (nonmilitary) oceanography not included in TEXOC. 



Source: NASCO, ch. 1, and TEXOC (OXR) Report. 



In general, the two progi'ams are consistent in terms of identifying 

 the increasing needs for a study of the oceans, of the problems cur- 

 rently entailed in meeting that need and of the expanded program that 

 these studies recommend. 



C. PROPOSALS OF THE INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE ON OCEANOGRAPHY (iCO) 



The question of how much is enough must always be answered in 

 arbitrary terms. Thus, there are no positive criteria with which 

 these two proposals can be confronted. Moreover, there is no single 

 Federal agency charged with the responsibility of determining how 

 much is enough, insofar as national efforts in oceanography are con- 

 cerned. The Interagency Committee on Oceanography (ICO) has been 

 charged by the President, however, with the responsibility in this area, 

 and this particular group, it will be recalled, operating within the 

 framework of FCST, has taken into consideration both the NASCO 

 and TENOC proposals and generated a Government-wide program. 

 This program has been expressed primarily in terms of funds rather 

 than subject matter content and the projection for the immediate 

 future and for the next 10 years was recently described to the Congress 

 by James H. Wakelin, Jr., Asst. Secty. of the Navy for Research and 

 Development, and present chairman of the ICO.^ 



Recognizing the seriousness of inadequate oceanographic information from the 

 scientific, technical, and military points of view, the Federal Council for Science 

 and Technology established a subcommittee last summer to prepare a coordinated 

 national oceanographic program. This committee, now called the Interagency 

 Committee on Oceanography, has recently been made a permanent instrument 

 of the Federal Council with representation from the Departments of Defense, 

 Commerce, Interior, Health, Education, and Welfare, the National Science 

 Foundation, and the Atomic Energy Commission. 



The Interagency Committee carefully reviewed the report of the National 

 Academy of Sciences-National Research Council's Committee on Oceanography. 



M "Frontiers in Oceanic Research," op. cit., p. 43-48. 



