10 PROVIDE A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM IN OCEANOGRAPHY 



science and technolog}'^, it is imperative that tlie President 

 have adequate staff support in developing pohcies and 

 evaluating programs in order to assure that science and 

 technology are used most effectively in the interests of 

 national security and general welfare. 



To this end it is contemplated that the Director will assist 

 the President in discharging the responsibility of the Presi- 

 dent for the proper coordination of Federal science and 

 technology functions. More particularly, it is expected that 

 he will advise and assist the President as the President may 

 request with respect to — ■ 



(1) Major policies, plans, and programs of science and 

 technology of the various agencies of the Federal Govern- 

 ment, giving appropriate emphasis to the relationship of sci- 

 ence and technology to national security and foreign policy, 

 and measure for furthering science and technology in the 

 Nation. 



(2) Assessment of selected scientific and technical devel- 

 opments and programs in relation to their impact on national 

 policies. 



(3) Review, integration, and coordination of major Federal 

 activities in science and technology, giving due consideration 

 to the effects of such activities on non-Federal resources and 

 institutions. 



(4) Assuring that good and close relations exist with the 

 Nation's scientific and engineering communities so as to 

 further in every appropriate way their participation in 

 strengthening science and technology in the United States 

 and the free world. 



(5) Such other matters consonant with law as may be 

 assigned by the President to the Office. 



In testimony before a subcommittee of the Plouse Committee on 

 Government Operations on April 17, 1962, Hon. Elmer B. Staats, 

 Deputy Director of the Bureau of the Budget, in describing the in- 

 tent of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1962, stated: 



The other thing that this does, as I pointed out in my state- 

 ment, is that it would make it possible to have someone who is 

 at this level in Government and who is responsible for sci- 

 entific policy overall to come before committees of Congress 

 to testify; whereas he is now precluded from doing that by 

 virtue of the fact he is considered a part of the President's 

 immediate personal staff and therefore by tradition has not 

 been available for testimony. 



Upon receipt by the House of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1962 

 your committee again reviewed its record and the need for an effective, 

 long-range, national oceanograDhic program. After the plan became 

 law, fiu"ther legislative proposals were considered by your committee 

 in the light of the plan and the proposed structure of the new Office of 

 Science and Technology. After full and careful consideratio.i by the 

 Subcommittee on Oceanography of your committee, a clean bill, 

 H.R. 12601, was drafted and introduced by th? acting chairman of the 

 subcommittee, Hon. John D. Dingell, under date of July 18, 1962. 

 Your committee believes the provisions of this bill are fully consonant 



