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they were introduced. They were introduced locally but didn't stay 

 there. 



Some of these are of long duration and we don't know how to solve 

 those problems. We have examples of seashore animals, birds, dying 

 by the thousands along the Oregon coast. This is happening right now. 

 We don't know exactly why. 



We will find DDT in the brain. The sujDposition is perhaps that this 

 affected their equilibrium balance and they died because they couldn't 

 keep up their heads. I am not abusing one agency or another, but Vv^e 

 need a group with the time to sit back and look at not the 29 percent, 

 but the 71 percent of the earth because it is a continuum. 



If we add to this the atmosphere, then we multiply tlie problems. 

 What I am saying is that we need a group with the time to sit back 

 in a long-range way and see what the implementations are that will 

 work in a coordinated way with local groups, but they need to have a 

 range and sight far beyond the local coastal areas, even though they 

 cooperated extensively with them. 



Dr. Alexander. Do you wish to talk about that ? 



Mr. DuDDLESON. I really don't disagree with anything you say. 

 Please understand that I am not suggesting that I know the answer 

 to this question of placement. I hope I didn't give that impression. I 

 am skeptical, though, that most of the answers to the most urgent, 

 most damaging and most irreversible coastal zone problems are to be 

 found best in a group whose expertise and interest and main trust is 

 deep-water ocean research and technology development. 



My skepticism is that just as most critical problems of the coastal 

 zone come by land, it may be that our solutions are to be found by 

 looking essentially to the land, such as for the problem of the accu- 

 mulation of pesticides which you mentioned. 



If I could say one other thing. We are all in debt to Dr. Alexander 

 and to Dr. Knauss and the other men associated with the Commission 

 for placing the coastal zone on the public agenda as the Stratton 

 Commission report has. I think that as we wrestle in the next 6 months 

 or perhaps longer about these questions, including the question of 

 placement in the Federal Grovernment, all of us would be well served 

 if the administration would release a report that the administration 

 is now suppressing, sitting on. 



You will recall that, for several years at least, the executive branch 

 of the Federal Government had a committee on multiple use of coastal 

 zone, chaired by Assistant Secretary of the Interior Stanley Cain. I 

 expect that this report, which is published, has a great deal of informa- 

 tion in it that would help all of us. I suggest that public discussion 

 of these problems over the next few months would be improved if we 

 had the information in that report. 



The Budget Bureau reportedly is sitting on it because it has some 

 funding implications in it. The Federal Government could, however, 

 release this report for public discussion with an appropriation dis- 

 claimer on it that it doesn't represent administration policy. 



Captain Suddeth. My name is Captain Suddeth from Georgia. This 

 question I guess is addressed to Colonel GoodselL Were you suggesting 

 that NASA might have some resources to contribute to NOAA ? 



Colonel GooDSELL. I would say not directly, no ; but maybe as a side 

 effect. 



