372 NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM LEGISLATION 



Mr. Drewey. Westinghouse and your own ? 



Mr. Clotworthy. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Drewry. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Lennon. Before you leave, sir, do you know who the Presi- 

 dent's Science Advisory Committee's Panel on Oceanography is by 

 individuals or by business relationship or scientific connection '? 



Mr. Clotworthy. I know some of the people who have served and 

 are serving on that Committee. 



Mr. Lennon. Mr, Counsel, would you obtain the names and identi- 

 fication by location and profession of the job assignments of the Pres- 

 ident's Science Advisory Committee on Oceanography, who Dr. Hor- 

 nig says is making a study of the very things that are proposed by the 

 several commissions that are proposed in the bill ? 



Thank you very much, sir. We do appreicate your appearance here. 



Now, Mr. Clark, we can accommodate you. We want to do so. 



Mr. Downing. Mr. Chairman, may I say here that Mr. Clark is a 

 graduate of that great educational institution of VMI, and he and I 

 were in school together there and also at the University of Virginia, so 

 he is a highly qualified person. 



Mr. Clark. Thank you, Mr. Downing. 



Mr. Lennon. Mr. Clark, as an individual and as a friend and former 

 classmate of one of our most distinguished members, we want to wel- 

 come you here before the committee. 



Do 3^ou have a prepared statement? 



Mr. Clark. Yes, I do, sir, and it has been filed with the committee 

 yesterday. 



Mr. Lennon. Off the record. 



(Discussion off the record.) 



Mr. Lennon. On the record. 



STATEMENT OF DTJRLANI) E. CLARK, JR., THE WESTERN OIL & GAS 

 ASSOCIATION AND THE AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE 



Mr. Clark. I am Durland E. Clark, Jr., and I am appearing today 

 on behalf of the Western Oil & Gas Association and the American 

 Petroleum Institute. Since this statement was filed with your com- 

 mittee yesterday, the Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association has 

 asked to be named as a party to it. 



We appreciate your invitation for us to appear here today and in 

 the interest of brevity we have not attempted to analyze each of the 

 several bills and make recommendations to you on them. 



However, we would refer to certain segments of a number of the 

 bills with which we cannot fully agree. We refer to the various sec- 

 tions providing for Federal participation in the exploration for, and 

 economic development of, physical resources of the Continental Shelf, 

 either directly or through grants to private industry. 



We are opposed to this concept and believe that its retention in 

 any legislation reported by your committee could ultimately put vari- 

 ous agencies of the Federal Government in the offshore oil business 

 as a direct competitor with private enterprise unless the petroleum 

 industry is excluded. 



We have attached hereto as addendum an illustration of certain 

 language that might be attached to H.R. 7849, which would result 

 in this exclusion. 



