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I am here today really wearing two hats, I believe : One as Chairman 

 of the committee to which you referred, and one in my statutory 

 position as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Develop- 

 ment in which position I am the senior official to whom has been dele- 

 gated by the Secretary of the Navy the responsibility for the Navy's 

 oceanographic program for the Secretariat. 



As you are aware from previous testimony by Dr. Wenk particu- 

 larly, the Interagency Committee on Oceanography was formally re- 

 constituted on the 13th of July by the direction of the Vice President 

 with the agreement of Dr. Hornig, the President's science adviser, 

 and became the Interagency Committee on Marine Research, Educa- 

 tion, and Facilities, with responsibility in the areas of basic research, 

 engineering support not specifically connected with particular mis- 

 sions, manpower, education and across-the-board facilities. 



I would like to speak first wearing the hat of the chairman of that 

 committee to give you a general overview of the Federal establish- 

 ment in those areas and the way in which the various departments and 

 agencies divide their responsibilities, and to provide you with some 

 information on the size of the Nation's supporting scientific establish- 

 ment that does the work. 



Then perhaps I might say a few words about the place of the Navy's 

 program, putting on my Navy hat. 



We have been able to continue and to begin reorganizing as a new 

 committee easily because we are the successor to the ICO and we have 

 been able to carry forward the staff support that we had with the 

 ICO. 



I have with me today Dr. Edwin Shykind, on mv left, who is the 

 executive secretary of this new committee and wno was the staff 

 director for the ICO. 



You have before you a set of charts and we have large-scale versions 

 of the charts for presentation. In some cases it will be easier for you 

 to refer to the small ones and in some cases to the larger ones. Some 

 of these charts have a good deal of information on them. I will not in 

 the time available be able to speak to all of the information, but I 

 think you might be able to find many details that will interest you 

 when you have an opportunity to look at some of the charts with 

 somewhat more time. 



We thought we would start by showing you the national objectives 

 as they have been stated : By the President's Scientific Advisory Com- 

 mittee in its report of June 1966, by President Johnson himself, in 

 February 1966, and by Public Law 89-454, in which your committee 

 played so large a role and which established the Council and the Com- 

 mission. (See chart 1.) 



Chabt 1 



National OBjECTrPES 



". . . Effective use of the sea by man for all purposes currently considered 

 for the terrestrial environment : commerce ; industry, .recreation, and settlement ; 

 as well as for knowledge and understanding." PSAC June 1966 



"To comprehend the world ocean, its boundaries, its properties, and its proc- 

 esses, and to exploit this comprehension in the public interest, in enhancement 

 of our security, our culture, our international posture, and our economic growth." 

 President Johnson, February 1966 



