NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 
TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1964 
Houst or REPRESENTATIVES, 
COMMITTEE ON MercHANT Marine AND FISHERIES, 
SUBCOMMITTEE ON OCEANOGRAPHY, 
Washington, D.C. 
The subcommittee met at 10:15 a.m., pursuant to call, in room 219, 
Cannon House Office Building, Hon. Alton Lennon (chairman of the 
subcommittee) presiding. 
Mr. Lennon. Pursuant to notice given to the members of the Sub- 
committee on Oceanography, the subcommittee is convened. 
I would like to make this short opening statement for the record 
and for the benefit of our distinguished guests here this morning. 
The purpose of these hearings is to examine the national oceano- 
graphic program for fiscal year 1965, which was transmitted to the 
Speaker of the House on March 19, 1964, by the President. Copies of 
this program have been distributed to the members of the Subcom- 
mittee on Oceanography. (See app. 7, p. 567.) 
This year, the administration has presented the oceanographic pro- 
gram with a horizontal budget structure. This enables the Congress 
to examine the program as a complete entity rather than attempting to 
analyze the vertical budgets of the many different agencies involved 
in the study of the marine sciences. It 1s the procedure called for in 
the bill which originated in this committee, H.R. 6997. The legislation 
has passed the House and now reposes in the Senate. 
We are indeed fortunate to have as our first witness Dr. D. F. Hor- 
nig who is the Director of the Office of Science and Technology and is 
Chairman of the Federal Council of Science and Technology. Dr. 
Hornig, in addition to these duties, is Science Adviser to the Presi- 
dent. He will be followed by Dr. James H. Wakelin, Jr., Assistant 
Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development, who is also 
Chairman of the Interagency Committee on Oceanography. 
Other witnesses involved in the functional planning of the fiscal 
1965 oceanograhic program will follow. 
Dr. Hornig, this is a great honor and a pleasure to this committee 
to have you here with us today and we look forward to your testimony 
and with a much closer relationship than we have had the privilege 
of enjoying in the past. 
I ask you, sir, do you have other members of the ICO with you 
here, and I do not believe there are but two chairs to your right or 
left, so I suppose you would want them to sit where they are. 
Dr. Hornic. Dr. Wakelin, of course, is Chairman of the ICO and 
we have a number of members of the ICO. 
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