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would be executed by the agencies concerned under present organizational 

 arrangements. 



In the circumstances, the Department would be opposed to the enactment of 

 the bill. 



The Department has been advised by the Bureau of the Budget that there is 

 no objection from the standpoint of the administration's program to the sub- 

 mission of this report to your committee. 

 Very truly yours, 



Robert H. Knight, 

 Acting Secretary of the Treasury. 



(For Bureau of the Budget report, see p. 170.) 

 (For Atomic Energy Commission, see p. 163.) 



Mr, Miller. As a result of testimony taken before the subcommit- 

 tee in the 86th Congress, certain organizational and management holes 

 were uncovered. In this bill I have sought to fill those gaps. 



In addition, in this bill I have placed the study of inner space, which 

 is dominated by the aquatic areas of the earth, on a comparable execu- 

 tive level with the study of outer space. This is a very difficult ac- 

 complishment, as one is always concerned with any proposed change 

 in the line functions of the various departments and independent agen- 

 cies in which are located the various subdivisions concerned with the 

 aquatic environment. Yet we must have an integrated, well-planned, 

 and properly funded program if we wish to continue as a nation. 



The aquatic environment, its exploitation and use by other nations, 

 friend or foe, is absolutely unconcerned with organizational methods 

 on our part. In the race for an understanding of the phenomena of 

 the sea, their cause and their effect on mankind, we must have a pro- 

 gram which is flexible, simple, efficient, and utilizes all of our capa- 

 bilities. 



It is unfortunate that the position of all departments and agencies 

 concerned, by the apparent direction of the Bureau of the Budget, 

 seems to be: Everything is wonderful. No legislation is needed. 

 The Congress should not be in the position of exerting congressional 

 oversight, and so on. To this I cannot agree. 



Today we shall start with certain parts of the management and 

 funding problems as they exist. 



Our first witness will be the Honorable James H. Wakelin, Jr., 

 Chairman of the Interagency Committee on Oceanography. Follow- 

 ing Secretary Wakelin, we shall hear from the Bureau of the Budget. 



For the information of the members of the committee, there is in 

 the appendix of the printed record on phase 1 of our hearings a great 

 deal of information which will be helpful in this and future hearings. 

 I have directed the staff to endeavor to anticipate future hearings 

 with documentation that is available and will be currently germane, 

 as well as for future hearings. 



I am. very happy to greet Secretary Wakelin, and I want to pay my 

 compliment to him for the success which we have achieved in the 

 field of oceanography. 



As I told him a minute ago, I feel that it would not be necessary 

 to have definitive legislation but for the fact that men come and 

 men go. This subject is so important to me and to you that we had 

 best tie it down in the American tradition of definitive legislation 

 w^ritten on the statute books to make sure that we maintain the high 

 position we hope to obtain in the field of oceanography. 



Mr. Secretary, I welcome you. 



