NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM LEGISLATION 275 



111 addition to OST, two important committ-ees exist to provide ad- 

 Aace to the President on diverse activities in science and technoloiry: 

 tlie Federal Conncil for Science and Technolo<ry and the President's 

 Science Advisory Committee. I serve as Cliairman of both groups 

 and the OST provides their staff. 



The Federal Conncil for Science and Teclmology is composed of sen- 

 ior policy officials in the executive agencies who are responsible for 

 research and development activities. The Executive order establish- 

 ing the Council in 1959 directs it to provide more effective planning 

 and administration of Federal science and technology, to identify 

 research needs, to achieve better use of facilities, and to further in- 

 ternational cooperation. Though it is an advisory body, the Council 

 provides the central forum for discussion of common problems, tech- 

 nical problems in general, bv Federal officials. It is the channel 

 through wdiich views and informfition are exchanged and through 

 A^hich a coordinating structure for Federal programs is established. 



One of the most significant areas of activity of the Council has been 

 to identify emerging areas of science and technology relevant to a 

 large number of Federal agencies and to establish interagency com- 

 mittees to deal effectively with issues and opportunities presented by 

 common experience and concern for a single area of science and tech- 

 nology. Thus far, the Council has established 11 committees for this 

 purpose, the Interagency Committee on Oceanography being one of 

 them. To a gTeater degree than was originally expected, these com- 

 mittees have increased the efficiency of Federal science and technology 

 programs by improving communications among the aa'encies, by iden- 

 tifying issues for resolution, avoiding undesirable duplication, pro- 

 moting complementary efforts, and facilitating more efficient and ef- 

 fective use of resources. 



Some of the other interagency committees of the Federal Council 

 which function similarly to the ICO are committees on atmospheric 

 sciences, water resources, high energy physics, behavioral sciences, nat- 

 ural resources, scientific and technical information, and materials. 



To give you some idea of the magnitude of several of these programs, 

 the President's fiscal 1966 budget for water resources research was 

 $100 million ; for high energy physics, $137 million ; for atmospheric 

 sciences, $200 million ; and, as you know, for oceanography, was $142 

 million. 



When Dr. Morse testifies, he will explain the operation of the Inter- 

 agency Committee on Oceanography in some detail, but I should like 

 to remark briefly on the accomplishments of this organization. It 

 has in my judgment performed well. The committee has provided 

 the means whereby we have accumulated data relating to the total 

 Federal activities in oceanography. 



The Committee provides a mechanism through which each agency 

 can know and does know what other agencies are doing and plan- 

 ning to do in oceanography. It has organized and presented data in 

 a way which provides the Executive Office of the President, and in 

 my judgment the Congress also, with a comprehensive view of the 

 Federal activities in this field. And importantly, the Committee has 

 set forth national goals for oceanography which have been endorsed 



