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Dr. Trreus. No, I think there has to be a way of coordinating this, 
and I think some things will have to be put together. 
For example, MarAd was ignored in the Commission report. There 
is no ship organization included. 
Mr. Detitensack. Is it your opinion that that should be? 
Dr. Tribus. Yes, I think they have to be put together. 
Mr. Detitensack. Are there any others like this that you feel should 
be put together ? 
Dr. Tripus. You can go both ways. It is not clear what the role of 
the Coast Guard ought to be in this, because on the one hand they are 
an agency whose ships carry armaments, and they do have a police 
force activity. 
It is going to take a lot more study to decide whether you can get 
better international cooperation in research and development if you 
carry this out with an agency that is also doing police work. 
Maybe that has to stay where it is, but be coordinated in its activities 
and use. 
For example, ESSA has now the lead agency responsibility in the 
buoy program, but Coast Guard, because it has the ships and the 
people, carry out a portion of it, and it may well be that we will dis- 
cover as we explore the activities that the NOAA employs—as we ex- 
plore them in detail, we are going to find that certain things may be 
pulled together in one agency, or through some special type of co- 
ordination, and at this moment those are the matters that are under 
review. 
That is why I am again hesitant to say exactly how they ought to be. 
Excuse me. I was in error. The Coast Guard has the lead agency 
responsibility, and we coordinate, which means we state the require- 
ments, and of course that information is put into our computers for 
the forecasting, so we obviously have to say what it is we want out 
of the buoy system, but the Coast Guard deploys them, maintains them, 
and services them, and so on. 
But you can see that there are issues here that are not simply 
organizational, but they have to do with matters that the Commission 
probably did not have time to go into. 
I think they have done a magnificient job, but they still could not 
do everything. 
Certainly the MarAd is one question. Another is the question of 
whether you can have an armed force type group and go out and say: 
“This is a research agency, and we want to engage in friendly research 
with you.” There is an application there that you have to work your 
way through. 
Mr. De.ienpack. On this question of independent agencies whose 
efforts are coordinated versus a single agency, which would be the 
agency primarily responsible for the operation of component elements, 
do you feel that it is not imperative that they be kept independent, and 
merely have their efforts coordinated, but you are not prepared to 
say, because of individual constituent agencies, that they should be 
blended together in a single organization ? Is that correct ? 
Dr. Trrevs. I think I would say it a little differently, but it is 
almost what I am saying; namely, that just coordination of things as 
they stand now seems to be a pretty difficult task. 
Mr. Drtienpack. So you would go beyond coordination ? 
