navigation aids, especially LORAN-A and LORAN-C, to provide 

 information that will support the U.S. position to ICAO in 1964. The 

 Department should also continue review of new developments in long- 

 distance navigation aids. 



The Secretary of Treasury should become a member of IGIA. 



Suitable criteria should be developed that will enable the Coast 

 Guard to measure performance of its multiple fimctions against 

 program costs. 



The Treasury Department should continue to support the Coast 

 Guard's research and development program, its conversion from 

 LORAN-A to LORAN-C, cooperation with the Weather Bureau 

 and the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and operation of the International 

 Ice Patrol. 



Oceanography 



The sea, where life began, is our last unexplored frontier this side of 

 outer space. Across the slow centuries while men climbed the moun- 

 tains, probed the jungles and mapped the deserts, the sea retained the 

 ancient mysteries of its currents and tides, and of the myriad life in 

 its depths. 



Oceanography, the scientific study of the sea, is a natural interest 

 of the Coast Guard, which has participated regularly in oceanograph- 

 ic current research since 1914, particularly in the Eastern American 

 Arctic regions. 



The Coast Guard has also contributed to this research through 

 cooperation with other Government and scientific agencies. 



Legislation passed in 1961 with the President's support gave the 

 Coast Guard greater authority and responsibility in oceanographic 

 research. Also the Coast Guard was made a member of the inter- 

 agency Committee on Oceanography (ICO), created in 1960 to co- 

 ordinate the oceanographic activities of various Government agen- 

 cies involved in developing a national program. 



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