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Mr. Downing. 
Mr. Downine@. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 
I think you have made an excellent contribution here, Mr. Brooks. 
I would hope that you are going to furnish us with copies of your 
statement so that we can study it later. 
Is that correct ? 
Mr. Brooxs. Yes; I certainly shall and I am sorry I didn’t have 
them today. 
I realize it was rather dense and concentrated and it may have been 
hard to listen to. 
Mr. Downrne. You didn’t mention in your testimony anything 
about the grouping of the Federal agencies which go to form NOAA. 
Do you have any comments on that ? 
Mr. Brooks. Well, yes. 
_ The point I made at that portion of my testimony was that I think 
it is more important to support the Commission’s recommendations, 
including the particular grouping which they propose, than to de- 
tract from the clarity and support that that recommendation would 
otherwise enjoy by raising second order questions about whether 
the Lake Survey should or should not be there, whether if the Lake 
Survey is there the Geological Survey or part of it might not be, 
and so forth. 
I didn’t wish to get into the details of that particular grouping. I 
think the grouping as presented, as proposed is entirely adequate to 
the purpose. 
Mr. Downine. Thank you very much. 
Mr. Lunnon. Mr. Brooks, I would have to say that any reasonably 
informed person or a person who had been exposed to any of the 
things that we have been discussing here since 1959, would have to say 
that he was greatly impressed by the strength of your statement. 
It does, I am sure, represent a study in depth and long considera- 
tion of the Commission report. I don’t think anyone would dare say 
that that was not a fact. 
Mr. Brooxs. Thank you, sir. 
Mr. Lennon. I commend you for it. 
You will timely furnish the members of the committee the state- 
ment that you made today or a sufficient number to be distributed 
among the total membership of the subcommittee. Could you also fur- 
nish us a statement of your biographical background, please, sir? 
Mr. Brooks. Yes; of course. 
Mr. Lennon. Because I think that necessarily we would have to 
understand that to be able to partially understand your deep interest 
in the subject matter. 
Incidentally, I would like to suggest, Counsel, that you put in the 
hands of each member of the subcomittee a copy of Mr. Brooks’ state- 
ment and his biographical data and also the statement that was made 
by the witness here yesterday which I was not privileged to hear. 
“I understand it was not necessarily exactly like yours but went in 
depth, too, with respect to his views on the Commission report. T don’t 
know what to say to you except that I certainly subscribe to your gen- 
eral statement that it would be a mistake for the committee to try to 
make individual evaluations of each of the various Government agen- 
cies that the Commission projected to go into the Government struc- 
ture known as NOAA. 
