APPENDIX III 
Industry and the Ocean Continental Shelf 
1. INTRODUCTION 
On September 20-23, 1965, a conference was held at the David Taylor 
Model Basin involving Government and industry to discuss their 
mutual roles in the exploration and exploitation of the Continental 
Shelf. The study was initiated by a letter from Dr. Robert W. Morse, 
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development and 
chairman of the Interagency Committee on Oceanography, following 
a request from the PSAC Panel on Oceanography. 
In order to assess the status of continental shelf development, it 
was decided to establish the following objectives: 
a. Determine what industry is currently doing and what it 
intends to do concerning the exploration and exploitation of the 
Continental Shelf. 
b. Determine oceanographic services currently available by the 
Federal Government and services desired by industry. 
c. Elicit recommendations from industry concerning the desired 
mutual roles of industry and Government in the future exploita- 
tion of the Continental Shelf. 
Five basic, nondefense industries were represented at the conference : 
petroleum, mining, chemical, fishing, and maritime industries. The 
Government was represented by the corresponding counterparts of the 
ICO. Theattendees are listed below. 
Since that time the study effort has continued within each panel, 
culminating in submission of individual panel reports in late 1965. 
Findings of each panel report are included in this appendix, and high- 
lights of the recommendations are also listed. Several areas require 
more investigation before detailed recommendations can be made. 
Examples include undersea technology, undersea engineering stand- 
ards, waste disposal, biological data handling, and the fishing industry 
in general. Accordingly, it is expected that follow-on studies will be 
made by pertinent panels in the near future. 
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