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conducted at the Law of the Sea Conference in Rhode Island about 

 2 months ago and that is completed. 



Mr. IloGERS. Are there any other contracts that you have out? 



Dr. Wenk. The other one with regard to the legal problems along 

 the coasts — and I guess I mentioned this earlier — is with Professor 

 Garretson at New York University. One with regard to the Great 

 Lakes is being negotiated with the University of Wisconsin. 



Mr. Rogers. Are there any other contracts in being or contemplated ? 



Dr. Wenk. Mr. Rogers, I believe that completes those that are 

 in being. There are several that have been sponsored by the Com- 

 jnission and you can probably get those when you talk with them. 



Mr. Rogers. Are they administered by the Commission? 



Dr. Wenk. By the Commission ; yes, sir. 



Mr. Rogers. You have nothing to do with them? 



Dr. Wenk. Nothing to do with them except that we have in under- 

 standing that the results of ours are available to them and vice versa. 



Mr. Rogers. All right. 



Dr. Wenk. With regard to the selection process, the first problem 

 was to identify those issues deserving of this kind of attention. This 

 took several months of study by our staff, in consultation with rep- 

 resentatives from the Federal agencies and outside consultants, and 

 we have made liberal use of outside consultants. 



Mr. Rogers. Have you used the National Science Foundation or 

 the National Academy of Engineering? 



Dr. Wenk. Yes; we have. 



Mr. Rogers. I know they offered their services. I wanted to know 

 if you have used them. 



Dr. Wenk. We have been in consultation with them. We have not 

 assigned them an explicit problem, but we have been in continuing 

 consultation with them. One of the members of my staff was present 

 at the Academy of Engineering meeting on the west coast just about 

 2 months ago. 



If I can digress for a second because of this point — it is our feeling 

 that there are many ideas in organizations such as the Academy of 

 Engineering and the Marine Technology Society and the National 

 Security Industrial Association, and so on, that have not come to 

 our attention spontaneously, though we have invited this kind of 

 suggestion repeatedly. 



Mr. Rogers. I had understood that these organizations had written 

 letters to the President, saying they are availg-ble for use for the 

 Council. 



Dr. Wenk. There has been an exchange of correspondence between 

 some of them and the Vice President, and this took place in the spring. 



Mr. Rogers. In the beginning ? 



Dr. Wenk. Yes, sir. We are now writing another letter to the heads 

 of ever;^ one of these organizations much more specifically urging that 

 they bring to our attention the results of any studies that they have 

 undertaken. 



Mr. Rogers. I would hope that this could be used rather extensively 

 by the Council, and perhaps you would even initiate specific re- 

 quests that they do studies. As I understand, they are willing to do 

 them for you if they are called upon. 



I would hope the Council could make use of this. It seems to me that 

 these would be two bodies that could be helpful. 



