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My name is Northcutt Ely. I am a member of the law firm of Ely and 
Dees of Washington, D. C. Iama member of the Council of the Section 
of Natural Resources Law of the American Bar Association, and appear here 
by direction of the Chairman and Council of that Section. 
.I annex as Appendix A a Resolution (No. 73) of the House of Delegates 
of the American Bar Association, adopted at its August 1968 meeting. * This 
is incorporated in a Joint Report of the Sections of Natural Resources Law and 
International and Comparative Law and the Standing Committee on Peace and 
Law Through United Nations, recommending that Resolution. 
Only the Resolution itself states official policy of the American Bar 
Association. The balance of the annexed 1968 Joint Report states the support- 
ing argument of the Sections which recommended the adoption of the Resolution. 
The Resolution, ‘and the supporting Report, deal with two major subjects: 
1. The seaward limit of the ee jurisdiction of the United States 
with respect to exploration and exploitation of submarine mineral resources; 
2. The international arrangements which should control the explora- 
tion and exploitation of submarine mineral resources, seaward of the limits 
of national jurisdiction of the coastal nations. 
I will discuss these points in the same order. In so doing, I shall make 
*The Resolution "authorizes representatives of the Sections of Natural 
Resources Law and International and Comparative Law and the Standing Com- 
mittee on Peace and Law Through United Nations to express the foregoing as 
the views of the American Bar Association to agencies of the Government of 
the United States and to the Congress of the United States."' 
