NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM 
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1969 
Houses or REPRESENTATIVES, 
SUBCOMMITTEE ON OCEANOGRAPHY, 
OF THE COMMITTEE ON MercHant MARINE AND FISHERIES, 
Washington, D.C. 
The subcommittee met at 10:15 a.m., pursuant to recess, in room 
1334, Longworth House Office Building, Hon. Alton Lennon (chair- 
man of the subcommittee) presiding. 
Mr. Lennon. The subcommittee will come to order. 
This morning we are delighted to have Dr. W. D. McElroy, Director 
of the National Science Foundation, and Dr. Sidney R. Galler, As- 
sistant Secretary for Science of the Smithsonian Institution. 
Gentlemen, we are delighted to have you. It is my understanding 
that Dr. McElroy will present his statement now. 
Doctor, if you will come forward, we hope to get underway. Doctor, 
do you have anyone with you that you wanted to identify and sit at 
the witness table with you? 
STATEMENT OF DR. W. D. McELROY, DIRECTOR; ACCOMPANIED BY 
DR. ROBERT D. ABEL, HEAD, OFFICE OF SEA GRANT PROGRAMS; 
AND DR. EDWARD P. TODD, DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR (RE- 
SEARCH), NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 
Dr. McExroy. Yes; with your permission, I would like to have Dr. 
Abel, who is head of our sea grant programs. 
Mr. Lennon. We are delighted to see you. 
Dr. McEzroy. Mr. Chairman, I have a written statement to submit 
for the record. I prefer not to use the statment or read it, but rather 
to talk informally about some of the highlights. 
Mr. Lennon. All right. 
Without objection, immediately following your informal summary 
statement, there will be inserted in the record the full text of your 
statement as presented to the committee. 
Dr. McEzroy. Thank you. 
I should preface my remarks by indicating to you, Mr. Lennon, 
and to other members of the committee that I am a strong advocate of 
oceanography, having worked in that field myself for 15 years and 
having served on the President’s Science Advisory Committee on 
Oceanography. We studied this whole problem of Federal relation- 
ships over a period of a year between 1965 and 1966 and we prepared 
a report called “Effective Use of the Sea.” 
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