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Budgetary Differences Between Marine Council Report and Interior 



Department Statement 



One reason for the difference between the budget figures publisbcd in the 

 Marine Council Report and those furnislied in tliis statement is a change in 

 definition. The published report used the concept of obligations incurred while 

 the recent statement was developed on the basis of costs incurred. Costs incurred 

 can be defined generally as actual disbursements plus accounts payable, whereas 

 obligations incurred are firm commitments by contracts, purchase orders, etc. and 

 precede actual payment. Part of the difference which occurred in FY 1967 can 

 be attributed to the subsidy for the construction of fishing vessels and to a 

 program of Federal Aid for Commercial Fisheries Research and Development. 

 The difference applicable to the subsidy operation is $4.7 million. The difference 

 applicable to Aid to States is $2.6 million. 



Other differences resulted in a restudy of projects being included as an ap- 

 propriate part of marine science research such as in the saline water conversion 

 program. Definitions of program content once adjusted for FY 1968 were adjusted 

 accordingly in the year 1966 and 1967 in an effort to make the levels of effort 

 comparable. 



Mr. Rogers. We appreciate your testimony, Dr. Cain, and your 

 associate's. You have been most helpful. We appreciate the work that, 

 the Interior Department is doing in this field. 



Dr. Cain. Thank you. 



(The prepared text of Dr. Cain's statement follows :) 



Statement of Stanley A. Cain, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife, 

 and Parks, Department of the Interior 



Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, it is my pleasure to appear 

 before you today to speak in accordance with your request, in a dual capacity. 

 First, I will present an overview of the Department of the Interior programs 

 in marine resources development, in my capacity as Administrator of depart- 

 ment-wide programs in marine resources. Second, I will discuss activities and 

 plans of a committee of the National Council on Marine Resources and Engineer- 

 ing Development which concerns the multiple use of the coastal zones of the 

 United States. I will speak first on the need for marine resources development and 

 the role which the Department of the Interior is playing meeting national needs 

 in this field. Following my remarks on this subject, I will then give a brief review 

 of the newly formed Committee on Multiple Use of Coastal Zones. 



As an introduction to the question on why this nation should be concerned 

 about development of latent marine resources, I would like to introduce data 

 that indicate requirements for natural resources extending to the year 2000. 

 These show expected population growths as determined by the Bureau of Census 

 coupled with information on expected requirements for natural resources. The 

 intent is to obtain a reasonable comparative measure of resource demands. The 

 indicators are population growth and requirements linked to standards of living. 



INDEXES OF NATIONAL ANNUAL REQUIREMENTS OF NATURAL RESOURCES, 1950 TO 2000 



1950 



1980 2000 



Population times millions 152 



Gross national product times billions 3__. $458 



Disposable personal income times billions s $267 



Energy demand times quadrillion British thermal 



units ■I 34.5 



Metals consumption times millions s _ $8,100 



Water times billions of gallons per day 203 



Fishery products times millions ^ $669 



1 Percent increase over 1965. 



2 Average of moderate and substantial declines in fertility rates, Bureau of the Census, series P-25. The year 2000' 

 estimate is an extrapolation of the 1965-80 data. 



3 Relative to constant 1964 dollars. 



4 Fossil fuels, nuclear and hydro; nuclear is nonrenewable until about 2000 when breeders will have been developed. 



