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Dr. Cain. It shows the Interior Department's organization for co- 

 ordinating its own marine resource program interests and for its inter- 

 nal communications and planning. The nine bureaus are identified by 

 their initials at the bottom of the chart. 



Starting at the left, the Bureau of Outdoor Eecreation. This comes 

 in because of the large number of Federal areas administered by the 

 Department of the Interior that come to the seacoast, including na- 

 tional parks and monuments, national recreation areas, involving not 

 only coastline in the strict sense, but estuaries behind in some cases 

 going on to the shelf, submarine park developments. 



We have at least three places where we have made underwater park 

 developments in relation to coral reefs. The National Park Service 

 is in it in the same way. They are separate bureaus. The National 

 Park Service is a management bureau and the Bureau of Outdoor 

 Recreation is a planning and funding operation. 



The Bureau of Land Management, the third, is the one which has 

 the interest of leasing, the requirement of leasing. It is not a technical 

 bureau working on the resources of the shelf as such. 



The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife has primary interest 

 in fresh water fishes but it shares an interest in fishes that move be- 

 tween the fresh water and the sea water. It shares this interest with 

 the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. It is also concerned with other 

 than anadromous and catadromous fish that live in coastal or estuary 

 waters. The same is true of wildlife. 



When we come to the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, the next one, 

 its major interest, 90 percent or more of its activity, I would say, is 

 related directly to the sea. It gets, however, involved in fresh water 

 fishes which move to fresh water and back, such as salmon. 



The next Bureau is deeply interested, the Bureau of Mines. 



The next one, Geological Survey, is deeply involved. 



The Water Pollution Control Administration is just as concerned 

 about the water quality of estuaries and the coastal zone as it is about 

 fresh water on the Continent as such. 



The Office of Saline Water is concerned in a lesser way because its 

 effort is to produce desalted water using brackish or salt water as a 

 source for the manufacture of fresh water. They also are concerned 

 with the sea because of the problem of disposal of the heavy brines 

 which result from the desalinization process. 



Mr. Fascell. Which one of the bureaus. Dr. Cain, would give advice 

 or have some review with respect to radioactivity pollution of the 

 high seas? 



Dr. Cain. The Federal Water Pollution Control Administration. 



Mr. Fascell. Is that problem an international problem at the present 

 time ? And is it being discussed anywhere ? x4.nd if so, where ? 



Dr. Cain. There is an International Atomic Energy organization. 

 It is concerned with the contamination of the environment. Of course, 

 our national body which is concerned is the Atomic Energy Commis- 

 sion itself. 



Mr. Fascell. They have the primary responsibility in this area, 

 that is, radioactive pollution of the high seas? 



Dr. Cain. The Atomic Energy Commission in its own and its 

 licensed plants have the responsibilit}^ for design and engineering and 



