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The Wilmington area also has the Wrightsville Beach Biomedical 
Laboratory, a joint project of North Carolina’s three medical schools, 
which conducts research on the physiology of deep diving. Wilmington 
College, which on July 1 became the Wilmington Campus of the! Gon- 
solidated University of North Carolina, has a ‘oreat interest in the area 
of marine science and marine resource development. Nearby is the 
F. J. LaQue Laboratory, where a large nickel company conducts fun- 
damental studies of the effect of the marine environment on the be- 
havior of materials, as well as a pilot desalination plant of the Office 
of Saline Water. 
Mr. Chairman, this listing by no means exhausts the catalog of ma- 
rine research activities making use of the favorable settings along the 
North Carolina coast. The Pamlico Marine Laboratory of North Caro- 
lina State University, at Aurora, is engaged in a broad program of 
investigating the possible effects ‘on estuaries of resource utilization, 
such as power production and phosphate mining. At Hatteras, North 
Carolina State University has a fisheries laboratory. East Carolina 
University is developing a marine science facility at Manteo. 
In the well known triangle, Duke University at Durham, University 
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State Univer- 
sity at Raleigh all have on-going programs of research and graduate 
education in the marine sciences. The two campuses of the Consoli- 
dated University of North Carolina have strengthened their programs 
im oceanography by adding faculty to augment existing programs in 
marine ecology, ocean engineering, food science, marine geology and 
geophysics. 
Duke University offers training in marine biology and geology, as 
well as in ocean engineering and in programs related to its unique fa- 
cility for measuring the ability of persons to live and perform under 
extreme temper ature and pressure conditions prevalent in deep water. 
The Research Triangle Institute is also concerned with problems of the 
ocean. Some of its scientists currently are engaged in the Bomex ex- 
periment. 
This brief inventory of the ongoing marine research and develop- 
ment activities in the State emphasizes the strong existing strength of 
our marine science program in North Carolina. We are fortunate in 
possessing academic institutions fully capable at the present time of 
serving as the nuclei of one or more coastal zone Laboratories of the 
kind visualized by the Commission in the second chapter of its report. 
My administration likewise is prepared to move rapidly in the estab- 
lishment of a coastal zone authority for North Carolina as soon as the 
appropriate guidelines can be established by the Federal Government, 
as recommended on page 57 of the Commission report. 
Now, Mr. Chairman, let me turn to consideration of some of the 
specific recommendations of the Commission. 
It seems to us that the recommendations of the Commission can be 
divided into three main categories. One of these categories concerns 
the recommendations of the International Panel of the Commission, 
which deal primarily with the International legal-political framework 
of exploring and utilizing the oceans. The second category of recom- 
mendations involves the restructuring of the Federal Government to 
create a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency. 
