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studies and submit recommendations to the Marine Council as designed, or it is 

 to act on its own initiative. The areas of concern are environmental planning, 

 conservation, and development, including vpater pollution. There is to be coordi- 

 nation, through the committee, of major programs of multi-agency, multi-disci- 

 plinary Federal activity. Miscellaneous subjects include erosion control, shore 

 development activities, channel and harbor development, redevelopment, and 

 and other transportation-related activities, conservation and marine ecology, 

 recreational development of marine areas, jwllution abatement and control in 

 bays and estuaries and the Great Lakes. 



Because the committee has been in existence a short time, its main work 

 lies in the future. The task we are undertaking at the moment is a review of 

 ongoing agency activities and plans for the immediate future so that we can 

 obtain coordination of planning for fiscal year 1969. The specific subjects under 

 review, in cooperation with consultants to the Marine Covtncil staff are : 



1. Marine pollution abatement and control ; 



2. Recreational activities ; 



3. Shore stabilization and protection ; and 



4. Channel and harbor development and protection. 



Membership on the committee consists of representatives of those agencies 

 involved with the Marine Council which have an interest in the coastal zone — 

 for any purpose. A table showing the agency representatives as designated is 

 attached here for your information. 



COMMITTEE ON MULTIPLE USE OF THE COASTAL ZONE 



Member Title Agency 



Dr. Stanley A. Cain (chairman) Assistant Secretary Fisii and Wildlife, and Parks.. Interior. 



Mr. Donald L. McKernan Special Assistant to Secretary for Fistieries and State. 



Wildlife. 



Alternate: Mr. Burdick H. Brittin. Deputy Special Assistant Do. 



Rear Adm. James C. Tison, Jr Director, Coast and Geodetic Survey, ESSA Commerce. 



Rear Adm. Robert W. Goehring Chief, Office of Operations, U.S. Coast Guard Transportation. 



Alternate: Capt. William Jenkins. Chief, Law Enforcement Division, U.S. Coast Do. 

 Guard. 



Mr. Joseph E. Upson.. Deputy Assistant Chief for Research and Tech- Interior. 



nical Coordination, Water Resources Division, 

 Geological Survey. 



Mr. James A. Lee Assistant for Environmental Health to the Assist- Health, Education, and Wek 



ant Secretary for HEW. fare. 



Dr. John N. Wolfe Division of Biology and Medicine, AEC Atomic Energy Commission. 



Alternate: Mr. Walter G. Belter.. Division of Reactor Development and Technology. Do. 



Mr. Robert Abel Director, national sea-grant program National Science Founda- 

 tion. 



Alternate: Mrs. JosephlneDoherty. Associate Program Director for Environmental Do. 

 Biology. 



Dr. I. Eugene Wailen Head, Office of Oceanography and Limnology Smithsonian Institution. 



Mr. Jack W. Carlson Senior staff economist Council of Economic Ad- 

 visers. 



Mr. Leonard Dworsky (To be designated by the Office of Science & 



Technology.) 



Lt. Gen. Wm. F. Cassldy Chief of Engineers, Corps of Engineers Defense. 



Alternate: Brig. Gen. Harry G. Office of Chief of Engineers.. Do. 



Woodbury. 



At the occasion of our first committee meeting I prepared a statement on the 

 Multiple Use Concept, which I hope will be a rationale for our guidance in the 

 future. With your permission I would like to place these thoiights in the record. 

 While they repeat somewhat my previous comments, I believe you will find them 

 of interest. 



COMMENT ON THE MULTIPLE-USE CONCEPT 



Much of the phenomenal development of American economy has been accom- 

 plished by constantly improving technology applied to resource after resource, 

 each treated as though it existed in nature more or less in isolation. 



There is developing a new understanding. Leaders of industry and developers 

 and administrators of natural resources, in private and public enterprises, are 

 beginning to understand the complicated systems that compose nature. No natural 

 resource — thing, condition, or process in the environment useful to man — is iso- 

 lated in nature. Resources occur in intimate complexes. All are interacting to 

 greater or lesser degree. What man does to one resource can have significant 

 consequences for other resources, reducing or precluding their use. 



