NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM 
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1969 
Housst or REPRESENTATIVES, 
SUBCOMMITTEE ON OCEANOGRAPHY, OF THE 
ComMITTEE ON MrrcHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES, 
Washington, D.C. 
The subcommittee met at 10:25 a.m., pursuant to recess, In room 
1334, Longworth House Office Building, Hon. Alton Lennon (chair- 
man of the subcommittee) presiding. 
Mr. Lennon. The committee will come to order. 
We are pleased and honored to have as our witnesses this morning 
Dr. Robert A. Frosch, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Re- 
search and Development, and also accompanying him we have Maj. 
Gen. F. P. Koisch, U.S. Army, Office of Chief of Engineers, De- 
partment of the Army. 
Gentlemen, both of you have furnished the committee statements 
which I assume that you will follow this morning. Regrettably we 
only get our copies, I think to be exact, at 10 minutes to 9. 
We have not had a chance to review them as we would like to have 
had. I know it is difficult for you gentlemen to try to get clearance 
from some other level before you submit your statements. 
There should be a rule that witnesses who agree to appear before 
legislative committees be required to submit their statements at least 
48 hours before, so that members of the committee, and particularly 
Counsel, will have an opportunity to review the statement, and relate 
it to previous statements, and to the record. 
I wish that could be done, and will Counsel remind me to insist 
upon it in the future. 
If we don’t, we will just have to cancel out these hearings as sched- 
uled and reschedule them again, and not at the convenience of the 
witness. 
Dr. Frosch, will you come forward ? 
Are you gentlemen going to present your statements together or 
will they be separate statements ? 
STATEMENT OF DR. ROBERT A. FROSCH, ASSISTANT SECRETARY 
OF THE NAVY FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
Dr. Froscu. With your permission, Mr. Chairman, I would pro- 
pose to go ahead with my statement. 
Mr. Lennon. Yes. Thank you. 
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