NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PR0GRA:VI LEGISLATION 209 



Mr. Lennon. Pardon? 



Dr. HoLLOMON. A part of what it calls for. 



Mr. Lennox. Yes; a part, so far as it relates to the coast and the 

 Continental Shelf. 



Dr. HoLLOMON. Right. 



Mr. Lennon. Now, I would sisk you one question that occurs to me. 

 This contract that ESSA has made for the survey of the Continental 

 Shelf was made with a subsidiary of an oil company 



Dr. HoLLOMON. Oh, no : the Battelle Memorial Institute. 



Mr. Lennon. Beg pardon ? 



Dr. HoixoMON. The Battelle Memorial Institute, which is a private 

 organization. 



^Ir. Lennon. I just wanted to get that in the record. 



Dr. HoLLOMON. It is in Columbus, Ohio. It is one of the most 

 competent institutions of its kind in the country. 



Mr. Lennon. Thank you, ]Mr. Keith. 



Go back to your questioning. 



Mr. Keith. It is good to see such rapid progress since ESSA has 

 been organized as of, I believe, July 13th, and the letter to wliich you 

 refer, using the present tense, was written on July 29th. 



Tliis looks as though we were really going to make progress, at least, 

 as a condition of these hearings, and I think that is commendable. 



How did they happen to pick this organization to do the research? 

 What kind of bids were asked for in order to undertake and accomplish 

 this ? I am curious about an agency in Ohio being selected to do this. 



Dr. HoLLOiiON. "Well, the purpose of the analysis is to get at the 

 economic benefits of analyses of surveys, of the Continental Shelf. 

 It is partly an economic study, and I am confident, as is usually the 

 case, that they had proposals from several institutions. I don't have 

 them, again, right here, but I can furnish them for you, and these 

 were evaluated by a team. 



The general practice is that these are evaluated by a team of techni- 

 cal people, including oceanograpliic people, and the contraet let on 

 the basis of competence. 



]SIr. Keith. I feel certain that those procedures were followed, but 

 I think it would be very good for the reeord if we could have, Mr. 

 Chairman, an outline as to how this contract was arrived at, that is, 

 the procedures confirmed that he has outlined would be of reassurance 

 to me, and I feel helpful to the committee, because, oftentimes, we do 

 recommend, or at least adopt the recommendations of departments for 

 the farming out of many different research contracts, and occasionally, 

 some have been brought to my attention that are being done by engi- 

 neering associations in which there is no engineer on the payroll. 



Dr. HoLLOiioN. I miderstand your concern. 



Mr. Keith. And we wouldn't want to have that kind of thing 

 taking place. I think it would be a good idea to have it for the record. 



Dr. HoLLOMON. Very desirable. 



Mr. Lennon. Would it be appropriate to furnish for the record a 

 brief sunmiary as to the basis on which the contract was arrived at? 



Dr. Hollo:mon. I would be very happy to. 



Mr. Lennon. Without objection, then, gentlemen, it will be included 

 as part of the record. 



