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I think he has made some very constructive recommendations which 
I know are appreciated by the members of the committee who are 
here. 
Mr. Lennon (presiding). Thank you, sir. 
I want to welcome any personal, good friend and a friend of this 
program and tell him how much we have missed him since he has been 
at home, so to speak, in his new capacity as Lieutenant Governor of 
California. 
We are delighted, Governor, that the State of California has taken 
this initiative. I won’t say they took it first because we did have the 
Governor of North Carolina here some several weeks ago, who ad- 
dressed himself to many of the things that you have. I did have the 
opportunity last evening to read your statement, and I am sure you 
understand why I wasn’t here this morning to extend a personal as 
well as official welcome to you. We certainly intend to keep in touch 
with those representatives of the coastal States and the lake States 
who have a vital concern and interest in this matter, and we know 
that the State of California or a least we have been advised that the 
State of California will participate in the forum that we intend to 
conduct here on October the 28th and 29th, this month, related pri- 
marily to some of the things that you have stressed : coastal zone man- 
agement and the laboratory system which has been suggested. 
I might say to you that we need your counsel and advice and active 
support in persuading the administration to move forward in this 
direction. 
We can certainly understand that being called upon in January of 
this year or certainly last November, to make a definitive judgment 
with respect to the Commission’s report, that they have been delayed 
looking at the total picture of Government reorganization. 
But we believe and I think you know, Governor, that this legisla- 
tion, as the gentleman from California, Mr. Leggett, has just com- 
mented, that we have reached a consensus with respect to two specific 
recommendations of the Commission concerning a Government struc- 
ture, NOAA, and also the National Advisory Committee. 
We did not hope to obtain a consensus with respect to the other 
aspects of the Commission’s report at the time we introduced this bill. 
Now, subsequent to that time there has been a bill introduced that is 
headed in the direction of trying to implement the Commission’s sug- 
gestions or recommendations with regard to the coastal zones. 
Now, the recommendations are not very definitive in the Commis- 
sion’s report with respect to that. That is the reason we thought it 
appropriate to bring to Washington representatives of the some 30 
States who have a vital interest in this program and who would help 
us arrive at some sort of a conclusion as to the direction we should 
go related to the areas that they are particularly interested in, every 
coastal State and of course every Great Lakes State having a vital in- 
terest in this commission report. 
I might say to you that early this year we started the hearings and, 
as a former member of this subcommittee, you will be interested in 
and perhaps already know that we found on the part of industry and 
on the part of the university level and private laboratory level an 
almost complete agreement with respect to the complete implementa- 
tion of the Stratton report as you know it so well. 
