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Mr. Lennon. Our next witness is, in the absence of Dr. Woodrow 
Jacobs of the National Oceanographic Data Center. I wonder who 1s 
here to make the presentation for Dr. Jacobs? I understand he 1s 
hospitalized. i 
Mr. Dusacu. Iam Harold Dubach. Iam the deputy and D. Jacobs 
has been ill for about 2 months. 
Mr. Lennon. We are glad to have you. Would you give your full 
name to the reporter and we assume you will use the statement that 1s 
now being handed to the members of the committee. You may have 
had ‘some part in the preparation of this statement and for that rea- 
son it is very probable that you would like to go through and pick out 
the parts that you would like to lay specific emphasis upon and then, 
of course, Dr. Jacobs’ full statement will be included as part of the 
hearing record. Whatever is your choice. 
~ Would you want to take it in its entirety or go through it and pick 
out the highlights of it? Of course, the whole text of it will be put 
in the record. . 
Mr. Dupacu. I believe I would prefer just to hit some highlights, 
if T may. © 
Mr. Lennon. All right, lay specific emphasis on the things you think 
we ought to be advised of. 
STATEMENT OF HAROLD W. DUBACH, DEPUTY, NATIONAL 
OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER 
Mr. Dusacn. If you will recall in the last report, the Data Center’s 
governing body is an advisory board on which sit representatives of 
each of the sponsoring agencies and two representatives of the National 
Academy of Sciences. In January of 1964, Dr. John Lyman replaced 
Mr. Howard Eckles as Chairman of this Board. Also, since the last 
report to your committee, changes have been made in the representa- 
tion by the Atomic Energy Commission and the National Academy of 
Sciences. Mr. Joseph and Dr. Kask have replaced Dr. Schultz and 
Dr. Shaefer who are the respective representatives of those agencies. 
I should also like to mention that in fiscal year 1964 the Coast Guard 
became one of the NODC sponsors. During fiscal year 1965 three 
other agencies have indicated their desire to become sponsors of 
NODC. These are the Geological Survey, Coastal Engineering Re- 
search Center, and the Department of Health, Education, and Wel- 
fare. Our sponsors in fiscal year 1965 will then total 10. Each year 
the NODC prepares a summary of its work and accomplishments as 
an annual report which is presented to the advisory board and sub- 
mitted to the sponsoring agencies. With your permission, Mr. Chair- 
man, I would like to submit the annual reports for fiscal years 1962 and 
1963 for the record. 
Mr. Lennon. Without objection, that will be included as as part of 
your statement in the record. 
(See apps. 8 and 9, p. 623 and p. 655.) 
Mr. Dusacu. Recording our accomplishments: In the 3 years since 
the inception of the NODC we have been working toward a greater 
adaptability of processing systems already in use, as well as attempt- 
ing to diversify into fields not presently being processed with any 
great degree of uniformity in the United States. 
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