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of the fact that it was, No. 1, chaired by the Vice President, mandated 
by statute that he should Chair it, mandated by the statute that you 
would have I believe five Cabinet-level officials on that Council and 
two others, one representing the nuclear science part of our Govern- 
ment and one other, won’t you agree that that level was more effective 
than the Inter-Agency Committee on Oceanography ? 
Mr. Fuiesr. I certainly agree. 
Mr. Lennon. It was our experience with the Inter-Agency Com- 
mittee on Oceanography in having them appear before this committee 
from time to time that we would find out that certain departments and 
agencies and bureaus which had a statutory responsibility in the field 
of oceanography were not even represented on that Inter-Agency 
Committee on Oceanography and we asked why. 
They would say, “Well, we just haven’t thought to invite them to 
participate” and within a matter of 24 to 36 hours there would be 
someone designated as a member of this Inter-Agency Committee on 
Oceanography from one of those departments or bureaus. 
This was one of the reasons that we believed it was necessary to 
establish the National Council. I wonder if you establish this Na- 
tional Advisory Committee as recommended by the Stratton report, 
who would it advise? Who would it counsel ? 
Of course, it would be helpful but unless you establish some sort of 
a Government structure to have the statutory responsibility of carry- 
ing out the will of the Congress, I don’t believe we will have accom- 
plished much. 
How about two other recommendations of the Stratton report re- 
lating to the coastal zone authorities and the zone laboratories? What 
is your feeling about that ? 
Mr. Furese. I do not feel that Deepsea is currently engaged in areas 
where the coastal zone laboratories would be of particular interest to 
our program. As an engineer and scientist in this area, I feel that they 
wowld be extremely constructive in the long range and certainly as 
our objectives broaden in our company we would find them extremely 
useful centers for coming with our problems and also for coming to 
support the activities and the works of these centers. 
We feel they would be good customers for us in the future, as well 
as an excellent source of data and information. The specific recom- 
mendations in the Commission report I feel are to the point. They are, 
in general, recommendations with which I can agree and the nature 
of the coastal zone and the laboratory efforts I feel are useful cer- 
tainly in the time frame in which the Government should be concen- 
trating their interest. 
For instance, I believe that our program illustrates that industry 
is prepared to go ahead with the development of deep ocean minerals. 
Certainly the oil industry has been willing to go ahead with the off- 
shore oil program and these are areas where direct Government par- 
ticipations probably is not indicated. 
However, in the coastal zone area, because of the myriad of com- 
plex problems, I feel that the Stratton Commission recommendations 
are to the point here and should be carried through. 
Mr. Lennon. Are there any other questions, gentlemen ? 
Counsel, do you have any questions? 
Mr. Crinean. I have one or two. 
