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MARINE RESOURCES 
Dr. Trisus. Now, as to Marine Resources, the Department of Com- 
merce plays a supporting role in the development of marine resources— 
both through the encouragement of the private sectors of our economy, 
and through continued cooperative efforts with the Department of the 
Interior. In this latter regard, our Department intends to continue to 
cooperate in the preparation of maps of our Continental Shelf and 
slopes by conducting the necessary surveys and by providing existing 
data for these regions in conjunction with our own on-going survey 
program. This we consider to be in keeping with the intent of the 
Commission. 
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT 
The global environment is a continuing and first priority concern of 
the Department. Our Department participates with the Department 
of Health, Education, and Welfare in seeking the solution to problems 
of air pollution. We also are a member of the recently formed Council 
on Environmental Quality which is concerned with the total 
environment. 
This requires that our knowledge of the environment be improved. 
Programs of global exploration, monitoring, prediction, and deter- 
mining the feasibility for modification of the environment contribute 
to this objective. The capabilities of our agency, ESSA, have been 
developed according to this concept. 
ESSA already has in operation the principal elements which would 
be required for the “National Environmental Monitoring and Predic- 
tion Service” proposed by the Commission. Many of these activities are 
performed in collaboration with other nations. The recommendations 
of the Commission would involve expansion of ESSA activities. This 
Department has lead agency responsibility for the U.S. weather 
watch program and more recently the civil focus for the coordination 
of marine environmental prediction. We are vitally interested in the 
implementation of these programs. 
ESSA also works with agencies outside of the Government in 
planning national or worldwide atmospheric activities. The global 
atmospheric research program, for example, GARP, is one which is 
planned with full collaboration and leadership of ESSA. 
Just the other day I spent about an hour and a half with the leading 
experts in meteorology who were gathered in conference with Dr. 
White and others from ESSA to plan this Nation’s participation in the 
global atmospheric research program. ESSA has long been a cham- 
pion of the principle that the prediction of the weather requires a 
global approach. 
TECHNICAL AND OPERATING SERVICES 
Technical and operating services are discussed in the Commission 
report. We are also pleased to note that the Commission has endorsed 
our efforts for providing mapping nad charting services, environmen- 
tal data services, and standards for instrument development to the 
many and diverse user groups. 
The Commission, however, has recommended that we accomplish our 
mapping and charting schedules in a shorter period of time than we, 
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