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Let me interpolate, Mr. Chairman, that with one possible excep- 

 tion. I do not know of any representative of the perspective deep 

 seabed mining industry that would disagree with those statements. 



Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. This 

 concludes my prepared statement. I would be glad to respond to 

 your questions. 



Chairman Zablocki. Thank you, Mr. Richardson. You have cer- 

 tainly responded to some of the concerns and questions that Mr. 

 Malone has presented before this committee which also caused 

 some question among the membership of this committee. 



You have stated that you are president of the Department of 

 State's Advisory Committee on the Law of the Sea. The committee 

 is comprised of what membership, and what input does it have, as 

 far as our new administration's policy position? 



Mr. Richardson. The committee is composed, Mr. Chairman, of 

 representatives of all the affected or interested groups. It is, there- 

 fore, a large committee, and it includes Members of the House and 

 Senate as well. Total membership, I think, is 126, and it is divided 

 into subcommittees for each interest. 



For example, there is a Subcommittee on Deep Seabed Minerals 

 or Seabed Mining. That subcommittee is chaired by Mr. Marne 

 Dubs, of Kennecott Copper, who is also the chairman of the Ameri- 

 can Mining Congress Committee on Seabed Mining. 



There is a subcommittee on Marine Scientific Research, chaired 

 by Dr. Paul Fye of Woods Hole, which includes representatives of 

 the Lamont Doherty Geological Observatory at Columbia, Scripps 

 at La Jolla, the universities of Oregon, Washington, Rhode Island, 

 and other distinguished marine biologists and oceanographers. 



There is a Committee on Oil and Gas, including representatives 

 of Exxon, Shell, Mobil, Gulf, Texaco, Standard Oil of Indiana, and 

 several independent experts. 



There are Subcommittees on Shipping, Fishing, International 

 Law, and so on. It has been my practice to ask the subcommittees 

 to designate one member who would serve at a given time as a 

 member of the U.S. delegation. Members of the Advisory Commit- 

 tee are entitled, in addition, to attend meetings of the delegation 

 during negotiations, and in the intervals between sessions, there 

 have been meetings of the committee usually of a day and a half or 

 two days at which the status of negotations is reviewed, and at 

 which the views of members of the committee on pending issues 

 are invited. 



I was pleased to note, Mr. Chairman, that in testimony by Mr. 

 Kronmiller before this committee when he accompanied Mr. 

 Malone on April 29, 1981, Mr. Kronmiller, in response to a ques- 

 tion by Congressman Gilman said, and I quote, "Historically, there 

 has been heavy reliance upon the Advisory Committee that has 

 been established for the Law of the Sea, and we do not intend to 

 diminish that." 



Chairman Zablocki. Mr. Malone, in his testimony, stated that 

 when there is a change of administration, a review of previous 

 negotiations is almost automatic. 



Given the outcome of the Presidential elections in France last 

 week, is the French Government likely to want to review its policy 

 negotiations at the Law of the Sea Conference, and would you care 



