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to become a more available material and certainly uses will develop: 
when the price is reasonable. 
In manganese, it will be a difficult market for the manganese to 
compete in. However, the marine manganese product is fortunate in 
that it will be a high purity product since it will be obtained by a 
chemical process and, therefore, it is very well suited to the basic 
oxygen furnace method of producing steel which requires high purity 
manganese, and this is the growing steel-making facility. 
So that the supply of high purity manganese should match the in- 
creased need for this in the steel industry. But it will be a very com- 
petitive situation in manganese. 
Mr. Cuinean. Thank you. 
Mr. Lennon. Thank you. 
I mentioned earlier the Commission report and you agreed with 
me about it having stimulated the private sector of our economy. I 
think you shouldn’t overlook the fact that it has certainly probed and 
punched and jabbed a little bit and stimulated some of our Govern- 
ment agencies with respect to moving in this field. 
I know several agencies that have shown quite a bit of interest, 
renewed interest or I would say it was a complete new interest in this 
field and have tried to move into it as a result of the Commission 
report. It is strange to me that they never were stimulated before. 
I don’t say that they got into it in anticipation that something might 
happen in the fragmentation of their agency into a new Government 
structure but something happened and that is very fine. 
Thank you very much. 
Mr. Fripss. Thank you. 
Mr. Lennon. Our next witness is Mr. Douglas L. Brooks, president 
of the Travelers Research Center, Inc., Hartford, Conn. 
Do you have a prepared statement ? 
STATEMENT OF DOUGLAS L. BROOKS, PRESIDENT, THE TRAVELERS 
RESEARCH CENTER, INC., HARTFORD, CONN. 
Mr. Brooks. Mr. Chairman, I do have a statement. Unfortunately 
vacation schedules in Hartford, mainly my own, prevented me from 
bringing copies to the committee. 
I will proceed to read the statement and make copies of it available. 
Mr. Lennon. Do we have your biography or résumé summary ¢ 
Mr. Brooks. No, Mr. Chairman. 
That is also in the package that I will supply you subsequently. 
Mr. Lennon. Without objection, it will be inserted in the record 
immediately following your statement. 
Mr. Brooks. Yes. 
My name is Douglas Brooks. I am president of the Travelers Re- 
search Corp. in Hartford, Conn. The Travelers Research Corp. is a 
self-supporting organization of about 200 people. 
We are engaged in contract research and consultation for Govern- 
ment and industry on problems that relate to the use or the misuse 
of the environment, not only the marine environment. 
Mr. Lennon. Let me interrupt you now. 
