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freedom of exploration by all nations on a nondiscriminatory 
basis, security of tenure to those engaged in producing the 
eepouxees in compliance with such rules, encouragement to 
discover and develop these resources, and optimum use to the 
benefit of all peoples; and 
AUTHORIZES representatives of the Sections of 
Natural Resources Law and International and Comparative Law 
and the Standing Committee on Peace and Law Through United 
Nations to express the foregoing as the! views of the American 
Bar Aeseeteion to agencies of the Government of the United 
States and to the Congress of the United States. 
REPORT 
The House of Delegates of the American Bar Associa- 
tion, on August 10, 1967, adopted Report #97 of the Section of 
Natural Resources Law which constituted an offer through the 
Section of the Association's "services and assistance" to the 
National Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Develop- 
ment and the Commission on Marine Science, Engineering and 
Resources and an authorization and instruction to the Section 
"to establish and maintain a continuing liaison with the Council 
and the Commission to the end that the Section shall prepare 
and submit to the House of Delegates, for approval, recommenda- 
tions with respect to the report or reports proposed by the 
Council or the Commission." The resolution required that the 
Section collaborate with the Section of International and 
Comparative Law and the Section of Administrative Law "with a 
_ view towards developing joint recommendations and policies" 
with regard to matters within the official purview of interest 
of these sections. 
