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extending up to southern Alaska. Under national parks and seashores 

 there are six national parks, eight national seashores. Five national 

 monuments are coastal. The Federal Water Pollution Control Ad- 

 ministration now has in existence four marine or lake laboratories, 

 two dealing with water quality and two having multiple purposes. 



I cannot take the time to speak extensively, but the Bureau of Com- 

 mercial Fisheries has produced in its exploratory work information 

 ^bout new stocks of fish, living resources of the sea, that have been 

 unexploited or underexploited. There are examj)les given on pages 20 

 and 21. Food from the sea has been given top priority by the National 

 Marine Council, and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries of our De- 

 partment is the major Federal agency which has both the research and 

 technical capacity to expand for our Government a food from the sea 

 program. 



If we turn now to page 22 : Marine geological research and explora- 

 tion have turned up interesting and very useful sources of data, such 

 as fresh water aquifers off the coast under salt water overburdens, lo- 

 cations of oil and gas have been discovered, heavy mineral deposits 

 lire being discovered and are under exploration at the moment, and 

 so on. There has been considerable activity and this is being accelerated. 



At the bottom of page 22 you find, for example, that the Depart- 

 ment has administered leases for oil, gas, sulfur, and other mate- 

 rial in marine waters which have already since 1954 brought $2.7 

 billion into the Federal Treasury. The prospect is very great. 



On page 23 there are indications about the extent of the activities 

 related to recreation in the coastal zones, both those that relate to the 

 Park Service and those to the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife 

 and the overall planning operations in the Bureau of Outdoor Eecrea- 

 tion, all of which are detailed. 



Interior's goals for the future are by no means spelled out in this 

 document. Three examples of what we feel are some deep needs are 

 given on page 24. The first one relates to our need for a greater marine 

 engineering and technological competence within the Department, not 

 primarily for the purposes of in-house work, but for the purposes of 

 being better able to do our extramural work with industry. 



This leads to the second point, that generally speaking the uni- 

 versity academic relationships of Interior are much weaker than they 

 should be. This is true for the oceanographic field, but it is generally 

 true of Interior as we compare our situation with other departments of 

 Oovernment. 



No. 3 is a very much greater increase in international activities for a 

 whole variety of reasons because it falls in line with national policy 

 with respect to food from the sea and the desperate need of peoples 

 of the world for improved nutrition, particularly protein nutrition. 

 This is in our own national interest also to develop overseas fisheries, 

 both by ourselves and in cooperation with other countries. 



I would like to add a fourth point to the three which are mentioned 

 on page 24, and that is the general need of the Department for what one 

 might call a basic inventory of our natural resources. I am new in 

 Government, as you know, and I am constantly surprised at how much 

 we do not know about the environment from which all natural re- 

 sources are derived. To give you a specific illustration, we certainly 



