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Please feel free to call on me for any further information or comment your 

 committee may require on this matter. 

 Very sincerely yours, 



Mother Mary Robert Falls, O.S.U., 



President. 



Duke University Marine Laboratory, 



Beaufort, N.C., April 26, 1966. 

 Senator Claiborne Pell. 

 Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, 

 U.S. Senate, 

 Washington, D.C. 



Hon. Senator Pell : Kindly add my endorsement to your proposed bill, S. 

 2439, "National Sea Grant College and Program Act of 1965." My confidence in 

 this bill is strengthened by the decisive role to be played by the National Science 

 Foundation in the administration of the funds. 



From the standpoint of marine sciences. I view two aspects of this bill as 

 healthy and significant. First, is the selection of the National Science Founda- 

 tion as the administrator. This agency already has proven mechanism for the 

 evaluation and support of research and training and would not itself compete 

 for funds. Second, the assurance of continued funding even at a modest level 

 would allow for the establishment of long-term support of marine sciences within 

 the framework of evaluation procedures that are also already established and 

 functioning well. 



My personal view of this bill reflects only its present wording and content 

 and as it now stands I favor it with enthusiasm and trust. 

 Very truly yours, 



Robert J. Menzies, 



Program Director. 



Prepared Statement of Harold Howe II, Commissioner of Education, U.S. 

 Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 



It is a pleasure to submit to the Special Subcommittee on Sea Grant Colleges 

 a statement concerning the great untapped land and water resource of marine 

 science. 



As always, the Federal Government maintains its firm commitment to the de- 

 velopment of natural resources. 



You may recall the quotation from Daniel Webster which is located directly 

 over the Speaker's rostrum in the House : 



"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its 

 Institutions, promote all its great interests and see whether we also in our day 

 and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered." 



I am pleased to comment on the National Sea Grant College and Program Act 

 of 1965, a bill which is designed to develop the resources of marine sciences 

 through the building up of our Institutions of higher education, promoting all 

 our interests. 



S. 24.39 would amend the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 to authorize 

 the establishment and operation of a program of support for education, train- 

 ing, research, dissemination of research findings, and advisory services in the 

 areas of marine resources. 



Clearly this bill has been introduced with the realization that marine re- 

 sources constitute a great potential asset for the Nation, that it is in our national 

 interest to develop and utilize increasing facilities and increasing student en- 

 rollment for these resources, and that aquaculture, like agriculture, can pro- 

 vide unlimited economic benefits to the Nation. 



The sea grant college bill would encourage the development of regional cen- 

 ters of excellence, with increased assistance to established institutions with exist- 

 ing and potential facilities. The funding of S. 24,39 is proposed to be derived from 

 10 percent of the bonuses, rentals, royalties, etc., from leases of Outer Con- 

 tinental land, available only for appropriations to the National Science Founda- 

 tion for programs with marine sciences. Further the Foundation would have 

 the authority to enter into contracts with institutions which seek to participate 

 in the sea grant college programs. 



I would submit that the contribution of the sea grant college concept is en- 

 tirely consistent with the public service goals of hiuher education, for the last 



