STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE COMMITTEE 

 ON OCEANOGRAPHY OF THE FEDERAL COUNCIL 

 FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 



WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1962 



House of Representatives, 

 Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 



Subcommittee on Oceanography, 



Washington, D.C. 



The subcommittee met at 10:15 a.m., pursuant to call, in room 219, 

 House Office Building, Hon. John D. Dingell (acting chairman) 

 presiding. 



Mr. Dingell. The committee will come to order. 



Today we are conducting the first of the open hearings on oceanog- 

 raphy before this subcommittee in the 2d session of the 87th 

 Congress. 



Our subcommittee has before it legislation introduced and referred 

 to us in the first session of this Congress; namely H.R. 4276. Ex- 

 haustive hearings were held on this bill in the last session. 



The position of the administration as expressed by all executive 

 departments and agencies with respect to this legislation was that no 

 legislation was necessary since the Committee on Oceanography of 

 the Federal Council for Science and Technology was doing an out- 

 standing job of coordination of our national program for oceanography. 



From the aspect of legislative oversight of executive performance 

 within our jurisdiction, the following general questions will be asked 

 of the Council through its Oceanographic Committee: 



1. What have you done? 



2. What are you doing? and 



3. What are you going to do? 



These questions are of sufficient breadth to ascertain the answers 

 to the subquestions: What, why, when, and how so understandable 

 to the news media of our country. 



It is with great pleasure that I welcome our first witness Hon. 

 James H. Wakelin, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research 

 and Development, and Chairman of the Interagenc} 7 Committee on 

 Oceanography of the Federal Council for Science and Technology. 



Following Secretary Wakelin, the chairman of the various working 

 panels advisory to the Committee on Interagency Oceanography will 

 be heard in the following order: 



Dr. Harris B. Stewart, Jr., Ocean Survey. 



Comdr. R. J. Alexander, U.S. Navy, Oceanographic Ships. 



Dr. B. C. Dees, Training and Manpower. 



Mr. D. L. McKernan, Equipment and Facilities. 



Mr. R. E. Abel, ICO Working Group. 



