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nize that certainly in this area we can expect great public benefit to be 
derived from the expenditures of those taxes in the future. 
Secondly, as a member of the House Public Works Committee, I 
certainly would fee] remiss if I didn’t point out that the chairman of 
that committee, Mr. Fallon of Maryland, who is a very close friend of 
the chairman of this committee, is tremendously interested in this 
entire area because the jurisdiction of that committee is also very 
much concerned with coastal problems. 
Some of the conflicts that you talked about with regard to dredging, 
flood control, navigation, and so on, will fit into the problems that are 
in the jurisdiction of this full committee and the subcommittee. 
T think that it would be well to recognize that Chairman Fallon 
and Chairman Garmatz, both from the great State of Maryland, cer- 
tainly are performing a great service in trying to improve and de- 
velop the marine resources and the water resources of our Nation and 
as a member of the Public Works Committee, Mr. Chairman I wanted 
to recognize that the chairman of your full committee, as well as Chair- 
man Fallon of the Public Works Committee, have contributed much 
to the State of North Carolina and to the Nation. 
IT am delighted to have had an opportunity to sit here this morning. 
Mr. Lennon. Thank you, Mr. Henderson. 
Yesterday we had the pleasure of having Senator Claiborne Pell as 
one of the witnesses before the subcommittee. He made this statement, 
with which I find myself in total agreement. 
Tn speaking of the sensational landing of human beings on the surface 
of the moon, he made this statement : 
While detracting not in the least from our building of pyramids in space. 
And he was there referring to a recent article by Mr. Drucker, he 
goes on to say— 
I believe our national oceanologie program has far greater potential for en- 
riching the life of man here on earth. 
Then he goes on to quote Mr. Drucker’s statement in his article: 
... we are about to tackle systematically the development of the oceans as 
the greatest economic resource to be found on this earth. 
T don’t see how any fair, reasonably informed, and knowledgeable 
person can disagree with those two basic statements. I think they are 
part of our future. 
Governor, you have stressed, and I think appropriately so, in the 
light of your own experience and in the light of the formation by your 
predecessor of the State Marine Sciences Council and the subsequent 
recommendation of yours which resulted in its being statutorily 
formed and based, and I certainly agree with that, the need for legis- 
lation that would implement that part of the Commission’s report 
related to the coastal zones and laboratories. 
T would like at this time to ask the gentlemen of the committee to go 
back and review again, if you will, since all of you have copies of the 
Commission’s report in your respective offices, pages 56 through 60 of 
the Commission’s report. Then I am going to ask counsel to confer with 
the legislative draftsmen and to try to develop a separate piece of legis- 
lation that would include the Commission’s recommendation with 
respect to this part of the report that I have just noted, pages 56 to 60, 
speaking of the Coastal Management Act. 
