22 NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM LEGISLATION 



approach, its members feel that efforts at the appropriate level of the 

 executive branch, for example, the Ofl&ce of science and Technology, 

 in consultation with the congressional committees concerned, can 

 undoubtedly result in an effective solution of the problem. 

 Yours sincerely, 



Frederick Seitz, PresidenU.U 



National Science Foundation, 



Office of the Director, 

 Washington, D.C., July 28, 1965. 

 Hon, Herbert C. Bonner, 



Chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 

 House oj Representatives, Washington, D.C. 



Dear Mr. Chairman: This is in further reply to your request of 

 January 25, 1965, for the views of the National Science Foundation 

 on H.R. 2218, a bill to provide for a comprehensive, long-range, and 

 coordinated national program in oceanography, and for other purposes. 



Under the terms of the bill, the President is directed to estabUsh a 

 national oceanographic program and to assign responsibility for carry- 

 ing out the program. In addition, the bill authorizes the President to 

 appoint an advisory committee for oceanography and directs him to 

 report annually to the Congress on the status of the program. 



We beUeve that legislation such as that proposed in H.E.. 2218 

 would be useful in helping to estabhsh guidehnes for carrying out the 

 national oceanographic program and recommend that the bill be 

 enacted . 



The Bureau of the Budget has advised us it has no objection to the 

 submission of this report from the standpoint of the administration's 

 program. 



Sincerely yours, 



Leland J. Haworth, Director. 



Executive Office of the President, 

 Office of Science and Technology, 



Washington, D.C, February 17, 1965. 

 Hon. Herbert C. Bonner, 



Chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 

 House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 



Dear Mr. Chairman: Thank you for sending me with your letters 

 of January 22 and January 26, copies of H.R. 921, a bill to estabUsh 

 the National Oceanographic Agency, and H.R. 2218, a bill to provide 

 for a comprehensive long-range, and coordinated national program 

 in oceanography. 



My testimony of June 23, 1964, before the Subcommittee on Ocean- 

 ography of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee 

 (two copies enclosed) continues to represent what seems to me to 

 be the essential considerations to be taken into account in organizing 

 the executive branch for an effective oceanographic program. H.R. 

 912 and H.R. 2218 represent quite different approaches to this 



