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merly the Ghairman of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Oceanog-- 

 raphy, has recently joined the Department as Science Adviser to Secretary- 

 Udall. Dr. Fred Singer, a well known scientist from the University of Miami, 

 has joined the staff of the Assistant Secretary for Water Pollution Control. He 

 is helping to relate estuarine and coastal water pollution control functions to. 

 the balance of Interior's marine resources efforts. 



Membership, Department of the Interior, Marine Resources Development 

 Program Advisory Committee 



Mr. D. Otis Beasley, Standard Oil of Indiana. 



Mr. F. Oilman Blake, Chevron Research Corporation, La Habra, California. 



Mr. Vernon E. Brock, Department of Oceanography, The University of Hawaii. 



Dr. William T. Burke, College of Law, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 

 Ohio. 



Dr. Preston E. Cloud, Jr., Department of Geology, University of California,. 

 Los Angeles, California. 



Mr. John R. Gilbert, Vice President, Bumble Bee Seafoods, Seattle, Washington, 



Dr. Frederick C. Kruger, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. 



Mr. Francis L. LaQue, Vice President, The International Nickel Co., Inc., 

 New York, N.Y. 



Mr. Henry Lyman, Publisher, The Salt Water Sportsman, Boston, Massachu- 

 setts. 



Dr. Grover C. Murray, President, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. 



Dr. Donald Pritchard, Director, Chesapeake Bay Institute, The Johns Hopkins 

 University, Baltimore, Maryland. 



Dr. John H. Ryther, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, 

 Massachusetts. 



Dr. James A. Storer, Dean of the Faculty, Bowdoin College, Grunswick, Maine. 



Mr. Allyn Vine, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



Dr. Warren S. Wooster, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of 

 California, La Jolla, California. 



It is through this organization and a central focusing of responsibility that 

 we are now administering Interior's program in marine science. The effort is 

 fully coordinated with the Planning, Programming and Budgeting system now 

 in effect in the Department. 



One of the first actions we took was to prepare the report entitled "A Plan 

 For The Accelerated Development of Marine Natural Resources." This plan was 

 presented to the National Council last February. I believe that members of this 

 committee have also received copies of it. While this was an early effort, if has 

 been helpful as an informational guide to assist our cooperation with the Marine 

 Council. A second plan which is to be long-range in scope is now in preparation 

 and will be available by the end of the year. A special Task Force within the 

 Department has been assembled for this purpose. 



We have subdivided the Department's Marine Resource Program into four 

 broad categories. These concern food from the sea and the Great Lakes, marine 

 minerals which includes marine geology, mining research and management of 

 Continental Shelf Resources. Our programs concern also research and manage- 

 ment to improve quality of water and to combat pollution in the tide and coastal 

 zones. Lastly, we are considering associated program asi)ects in marine-hased 

 recreation which extends from seashore parks, coastal wildlife refuges and 

 marine game fishing to the acquisition and development of recreational lands 

 through the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Geographic areas of concern 

 extend from the Tidal Zone of Coastal Areas to the high seas where U.S. industry 

 is or has a potential for pursuit of distant water fisheries, minerals and energy 

 resources. 



We found, upon examination of the Department's total involvement with 

 marine resources conservation and development and of activities that were 

 primarily influenced by marine locales, that the programs of the Department 

 were of considerable magnitude both in geographic, manpower and dollar con- 

 siderations. By way of explanation of this point, there is attached a table of 

 budgets by major categories extending from the years 1966 through 1968. 



