NATIONAL MARINE SCIENCES PROGRAM 



TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1967 



House of Representatives, 

 Subcommittee on Oceanography of the 

 Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 



Washington, D.C. 



The subcommittee met at 10 a.m. in room 1334, Longworth House 

 Office Building, Plon. Alton Lennon (chairman of the subcommittee) 

 presiding. 



Mr. Lennon. The subcommittee will resume its hearings. 



The hearing this morning is the final one of the series which started 

 on Augut 17, which was the first anniversary of the convening of the 

 National Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development. 



It was our pleasure on August 17 of this year to hear Dr. Wenk 

 and other members of the National Council, and subsequently we 

 heard from Dr. Stratton, the Chairman of the Commission, the Vice 

 Chairman of the Commission, and other members. 



With the testimony to be delivered by the Department of State 

 representatives today we will have heard from all Government de- 

 partments and agencies concerned in any important way with the 

 national oceanographic program. 



As the Chair announced at the commencement of this series of 

 hearings, it is our intention to hear not only from Federal Govern- 

 ment agencies but from institutions. States, associations, industry, 

 and other interested individuals and organizations in the private 

 sector. 



I hope we will be able to schedule continuing hearings very early 

 in the next session. 



We will, of course, plan to devote as much time to such hearings as 

 may be needed in order to gain the maximum broad scale insight into 

 the status and needs of this total program. 



This morning, gentlemen, it is our privilege and pleasure to have 

 with us, representing the Department of State, Mr. Herman Pollack, 

 Director of International Scientific and Technological Ajffairs, ac- 

 companied by Mr. Burdick H. Brittin, Deputy Special Assistant for 

 Fisheries and Wildlife, and the Honorable David H. Popper, Deputy 

 Assistant Secretary for International Organizational Affairs. 



I understand, Mr. Pollack, that you do have a j)repared statement. 



Mr. Poulack. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Lennon. If you will just proceed, sir, we will move along. 



Thank you. 



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