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STATEMENT OF W. M. CHAPMAN, DIRECTOR OF MARINE 
RESOURCES, RALSTON PURINA CO. 
Dr. CuapmMan. No, sir. lama lone wolf. 
Mr. Lennon. Most private industries have become lone wolfish. 
Mr. Downine. Mr. Chairman, I regret that I have an appointment 
with people waiting in my office. I would like to say that I have read 
this statement, and I concur 100 percent with what he has to say, and 
the way he said it. I think you will concur with what I have said. 
Mr. Lennon. Thank you. 
Do yon want to stay with your statement? You have time to stay 
with it, if you want to. 
Dr. Cuapman. Perhaps I can moderate between the two points of 
reading fully and skimming and hit the highlights. 
Mr. Lennon. Without objection, immediately following your off- 
the-cuff statement, your full remarks will be inserted in the record. 
Dr. CuapMan. Thank you, sir. 
My name is W. M. Chapman. I have given my curriculum vitae cur- 
rent to July of this year. 
IT am very pleased that you asked me to comment on H.R. 13247. I 
think it to be an excellent bill, and one of very great practical impert- 
ance not only to the United States, but to the world, as I shall develop 
below. 
This notion is not a very new one, and I have given some of the ante- 
cedents, meluding the fact that I recommended similar legislation to 
this committee in testimony in 1965, upon which Senator Muskie on 
behalf of himself and I think 19 other Senators submitted compre- 
hensive legislation to this effect to the other body in 1965. That effort 
died through opposition that came almost entirely from within the 
executive branch of the U.S. Government 
Mr. Lennon. That is sort of par for the course, is it not, Dr. 
Chapman ? 
Go ahead. 
Dr. Cuapman. The ideas which I expressed in testimony on this 
subject before the committee in 1965 were not original on my part. 
They arose out of the scientific and Government community dealing 
with marine affairs duri ue the course of the broad studies which led to 
the NASCO 1967 report. 
Kssentially, the ICO had done such excellent work in the short years 
of its existence that the nation’s marine affairs had grown beyond the 
capabilities of that mechanism of Government to move them further 
at the pace the Nation required them to move. 
The reason why I presented those views in 1965, and that they were 
not presented then by NASCO or others associated with it, was that 
these views had drawn criticism from elsewhere within the Federal 
governmental structure, and I was the only one then involved whose 
independence of position made it practical for me to present them to 
your committee, and not fear any criticism that would arise. 
The opposition in the Federal structure to such a consolidation of 
civilian marine affairs in 1965 came from four main sources, which 
you will immediately recognize, being still the ones you have. 
First, the Bureau of the Budget; second, the Office of Science and 
Technology, i in the President’s Office : third, the several Departments 
