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Spacecraft may also be useful as radio stations to telemeter data 

 from unmamied buoys to some central data collection center. This 

 study should collect information now scattered around in dozens and 

 dozens of reports to help us understand the question : "Will observa- 

 tions from spacecraft advance in the oceanographic field?" No new 

 scientific research is being done. The only purpose is to synthesize 

 what has already been done and try to put it in some orderly fashion 

 vis-a-vis these objectives. 



There are also two studies concerned with this problem of conflicting 

 uses of the seashore that were touched on here earlier and we expect 

 to have a third to cover three different situations: The first concerns 

 a harbor, a dense urban development along the waterfront ; the second 

 concerns a bay and estuary complex ; and the third concerns the Great 

 Lakes. 



Two of the contracts have been let. The first with regard to a typi- 

 cal bay and estuary, uses the Chesapeake Bay as an example. 



Another contract study concerns the economic potential of selective 

 resources of the Continental Shelf. The purpose of this contract is 

 to collect in one place everything that is known either in the Federal 

 Govermnent or outside of the Federal Government about the existence 

 of resources on the Continental Shelf. 



The first objective is to find out what move mapping needs to be 

 done, to find out what areas have been intensively covered, what gaps 

 may exist, and what techniques for mapping may be desirable. 



The second purpose of the contract is to look ahead to this ques- 

 tion of private development. We regard the development of resources 

 offshore as an extension of activities onshore. These resources in the 

 United States are developed by private initiative. The cost of develop- 

 ing these resources offshore, however, at the moment is higher than 

 it is in most instances onshore and industry will not take the initiative 

 to develop these offshore resources until the costs come into line. 



The question we are asking is what artificial barriers exist because 

 of legislation or otherwise that inhibit private development offshore 

 and, secondly, what teclinological barriers exist that might be eased 

 by federally sponsored research ? 



Lastly, there is a contract which analyzes various devices of the 

 Federal Government that have been chosen in the past to encourage 

 private development, to find out which succeeded and which failed. 

 That is perhaps a dangerous question, because it admits perhaps that 

 they all don't work, but we sincerely want to find out which really did 

 and which did not succeed in stimulating private development. 



The manner in which the contracts were selected was as follows 



Mr. Edwards. Excuse me. May I ask one question at that point? 



Do you have a contract that gets into the legal implications of ex- 

 ploring the sea ? 



Dr. Wenk. Yes sir ; we do. I did not cover these in this list. Three 

 are for the international aspects concerned with marine resources. 

 The first, with a Professor Burke at Ohio State University, is con- 

 cerned with the legal problems of research in international waters; 

 the second one is on problems of mineral resources and is with 

 Professor Henkin of Columbia University ; and the third, concerned 

 with living resources, is with Professor Dodyk also at Columbia. 



We have also had a small study contract with the American Trial 

 Lawyers Association, to help them sponsor a symposium that was 



