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(ESSA); Rear Admiral Jones, who is the Director of the Coast and 
Geodetic Survey of ESSA; Edgar L. Newhouse, who is staff liaison 
for marine affairs in the Department of Commerce; Marvin Pitkin, 
who is the Assistant Administrator for Research and Development in 
the Maritime Administration (MarAd) in the Department of Com- 
merce; and Mr. Frank Kesterman, who is also in MarAd. 
With me on my right is Mr. Robert Ellert of the General Counsel’s 
Office in the Department of Commerce, and on my left is Dr. White, 
who is the Administrator of ESSA. 
I am very pleased to be here this morning to present the Depart- 
ment of Commerce’s views on “Our Nation and the Sea,” the final 
report of the Commission on Marine Sciences, Engineering, and Re- 
sources, and on H.R. 13247 a bill to amend the Marine Resources and 
Engineering Development Act of 1966 to establish a comprehensive 
and long-range national program of research, development, technical 
services, exploration, and utilization with respect to our marine and 
atmospheric environment. 
Our Nation and the sea does a superb job of focusing national at- 
tention on the marine environment. One important thread interwoven 
throughout, this report and the objectives stated in H.R. 13247 is that 
the Nation’s economic development of ocean resources is contingent 
and dependent on science and technology. In this respect the Commis- 
sion points out that a “solid base of science and technology is the com- 
mon denominator for accomplishment in every area of marine 
interest.” 
Several years ago the Department of Commerce concluded that the 
execution of its historic mission “to foster, promote, and develop the 
foreign and domestic commerce” of the Un ited States was inextricably 
coupled to scientific and technical advancement. In recognition of this 
fact the Secretary of Commerce in 1962 obtained authority from 
Congress to establish an additional Assistant Secretary for Science 
and Technology. 
I am very glad that he did because I happen to like this job. 
Secretary Stans has underscored this understanding. Recently in 
a speech in Boulder, Colo., he said that he hoped one of these days that 
the Department would be called the Department of Commerce and 
Technology because that more properly describes the activities of the 
Department of Commerce than the one word Commerce. 
In continuing its emphasis on the crucial interrelationship between 
national economic development and science and technology. the De- 
partment, in 1965, established under Reorganization Plan No. 2 the 
Environmental Science Services Administration, commonly known as 
ESSA, to serve as a national focus for our efforts to describe, under- 
stand and predict the state of the oceans, the state of the lower and 
upper atmosphere, and the size and shape of the earth. 
Iam very pleased to state that the foresightedness in the formulation 
of ESSA has provided the Department with the capability to respond 
to many of the scientific and economic recommendations contained in 
the Marine Commission’s report and in the objectives set out in H.R. 
13247. 
In addition to ESSA, the Department in fulfilling this combined 
technological and economic role has the following activities and capa- 
bilities which could contribute to marine science objectives. 
