NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM LEGISLATION 



WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1965 



House of Kepresentatives, 

 Subcommittee on Oceanography 

 OF THE Committee on Merchant Ma-Rine and Fisheries, 



Washington^ D.O. 

 The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to recess, in room 1334, 

 Long worth House Office Building, Hon. Alton Lennon (chairman of 

 the subcommittee) presiding. 



Mr. Lennon. The subcommittee will come to order and resume its 

 hearings. 



Doctor, will you come back to the witness stand, please? 

 We assured you that we would convene at 10 o'clock. That is what 

 we are going to do and let you get out of here no later than 10' :30. 



STATEMENT OE DONALD E. HORNIG, DIRECTOR, OFEICE OE SCIENCE 

 AND TECHNOLOGY, ACCOMPANIED BY JOHN C. FRY AND HENRY 

 W. MENARD— Resumed 



Mr. Lennon. Dr. Hornig, last week Dr. HoUomon, Assistant Secre- 

 tary of Commerce for Science and Technology, in his statement to 

 the committee and prior to interrogation, made this statement, which 

 is found on page 3 in the fourth line of the second paragraph of 

 that page: 



Oceanography, of course, is not a unitarian concept. Speaking very generally, 

 it emphasizes two broad areas : As the description and prediction of oceano- 

 graphic conditions and the exploitation and utilization of ocean resources. 



Subsequently, on questioning I quoted that part of his statement to 

 Dr. Hollomon and questioned him, and those questions are found on 

 page 221 of the reporter's transcript, 



Mr. Lennon. Let me ask you this, please, sir : In what agency should there be 

 lodged statutory authority to provide a focus for the activity in the prediction 

 and description of oceanic conditions ? 



He said that description and prediction was included or emphasized 

 in one of the two areas. And he indicated, too, that there ought to 

 be, in a definite agency of the Federal Government something that 

 would focus attention on that particular aspect, that is, description 

 and prediction of oceanic conditions. 



He answered that immediately and did not qualify it : 



In ESSA in the Department of Commerce. 



Then I repeated the question : 



Mr. Lennon. The focus should be placed there? That is on the prediction 

 ^nd description of oceanic conditions through statutory authority? 



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