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6. Department of Agriculture, i.e., its Soil Conservation Serv- 

 ices and other units, can help. 



7. Department of the Navy, where legally interested, will be 

 able to assist. 



8. Other offices of National Science Foundation have given 

 support to this field in the past and should still be able to do so. 



9. Department of Transportation can be legitimately involved. 



10. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare also has 

 a role in coastal zone problems. 



11. Various other Federal departments and agencies will be 

 able to assist as applicable. 



Due to the complexities of the problems facing our "coastal zone 

 institutes'' or laboratories and to their legitimate impingement on the 

 responsibilities of different Federal agencies, no Federal sources of 

 support should be closed. Since additional money is necessary to speed 

 settlement of the important and complex difficulties of the coastal zone, 

 it is especially important that the Congress and the State legislative 

 bodies lend strong monetary support to all the agencies mentioned 

 above. Additional moneys are needed. 



In summary, each coastal zone management and planning unit (and 

 there must be many) will require close support from an adequately 

 staffed, involved, and dedicated scientific and technical unit ("a coastal 

 zone institute"). These "institutes" will have to be of size suitable to 

 the services required by the "coastal zone'" management and planning 

 units they must work with. They also must be of suitable technical 

 breadth. "Coastal zone institutes" should be used in education and 

 fundamental research and they should have the ability to draw upon 

 the capabilities inherent in nearby institutions of higher learning. To 

 provide such "institutes" or "laboratories" with adequate organiza- 

 tion, personnel, and facilities will require long-term and strong sup- 

 port from State and Federal legislative bodies. The resources of all 

 Federal agencies should be available for financial and other support 

 of the "coastal zone laboratory or institute" system when itds needed. 



Thank you. 



Dr. Fte. Thank you, Dr. Hargis. 



Next, Dr. Harris B. Stewart, Director of the Atlantic Oceano- 

 graphic Laboratory, in ESSA. 



STATEMENT OF DR. HARRIS B. STEWART, JR., DIRECTOR, 

 ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC LABORATORIES, ESSA 



Dr. Stewart. Thank you, Dr. Eye. 



The immediate ocean shoreline, the Continental Shelf, our estuaries 

 and harbors, and the Great Lakes constitute what is now called the 

 coastal zone. 



But the term today connotes much more than a mere geographic 

 area. This is the area where some 75 percent of our population is con- 

 centrated, so it is also the area where not only the sea and the land 

 meet, but — more importantly — where the sea and man meet. 



Thus the coastal zone is where the demand for recreational facilities 

 is greatest, where the major water transportation routes terminate in 

 our great port cities, where our greatest concentrations of mimicipal 



