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Dr. Clifford A. Barnes, department of oceanography, University of Wash- 

 ington, Seattle, Wash. 

 Dr. Dayton E. Carritt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 



Mass. 

 Dr. John Knauss, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of Cali- 

 fornia, La Jolla, Calif. 

 Dr. Gordon Lill, Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Burbank, Calif. 

 Dr. John E. Nafe, LaMont Geological Observatory, Columbia University, 



Palisades, N.Y. 

 Dr. Donald Pritchard, Chesapeake Bay Institute, the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, Baltimore, Md. 

 Dr. Dixy Lee Ray, Special Assistant to the Assistant Director, Biological 



and Medical Sciences, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. 

 Dr. Karl M. Wilbur, department of zoology, Duke University, Durham, N.C. 

 There is one further item which we would appreciate the opportunity of clari- 

 fying. In the course of the hearings, a question arose concerning the need for 

 the Federal Government to solicit advice from outside consultants and the poten- 

 tial problem on conflict of interest. Because from time to time such solicitation 

 of assistance is in the national interest and because of the concern that has de- 

 veloped over interpretation of current legislation in this regard, the President has 

 issued a policy memorandum of February 9, 1962 (31FR1341) and Executive 

 Order 11007 of February 26, 1961, on the subject of "Preventing Conflicts of 

 Interest on the Part of Advisers and Consultants to the Government." A copy 

 of the President's memorandum is attached. 



I have been informed by the Office of the Special Assistant that the use of out- 

 side consultants has been in conformity with this memorandum. 

 Sincerely yours, 



Donald L. McKernan, 

 Chairman, Panel on Equipment, Facilities, and Instrumentation. 



Mr. Lennon. In writing? According to dates? 



And how many meetings have }^ou had since you all have been 

 in existence since January 1961? 



Mr. McKernan. We have had 17 meetings. 



Mr. Lennon. Of your panel? 



Mr. McKernan. Yes, of the Facilities and Instrumentation Panel — 

 our panel, I should say. 



Mr. Lennon. Now the ICO meets approximately how often, 

 Doctor? 



Mr. McKernan. I was under the impression that we met more 

 often than Assistant Secretary Wakelin said yesterday. 



Mr. Lennon. I was, too. How often do they meet? 



Mr. McKernan. It seems to me we meet almost every month. 

 Now, apparently, Assistant Secretary Wakelin indicated that we were 

 meeting about every other month, and since I haven't examined this 

 exactly, I wouldn't know which is correct, whether we met only six 

 times in the last year or more. 



Commander Anastasion, who is here, might be able to tell us ex- 

 actly how many times we met this last year. 



Mr. Lennon. But your panel, I think you said, met about once 

 every 2 weeks. 



Mr. McKernan. We happen to have met 17 times. We got started 

 late, you see, Mr. Lennon. We had some special problems and we 

 have attempted to meet these problems by perhaps more frequent 

 meetings. 



Mr. Lennon. Now, Doctor, as the head of the Bureau of Commer- 

 cial Fisheries, is it likely that your Department would be notified if 

 it developed in certain coastal areas of our country that certain shell- 

 fish were causing sickness among human beings? 



