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T do not believe we can safely wait longer. I view this urgency not only 
from the national, but from the State and international viewpoints. 
In the State of California, I am chairman of the California Advi- 
sory Commission on Marine and Coastal Resources. You have heard 
very much the same as I am going to tell you now from Lieutenant 
Governor Reinecke, who is chairman of our Interagency Council on 
Marine Resources in the State government. 
Our main problems are connected with the Coastal Zone. Population, 
industry, and all social and economic forces in California concentrate 
steadily and intensively on the interface between land and water. With 
each month, those pressures become more critical within the band a 
few miles te sea and a few miles inland from that interface. 
We are getting our State activities into fairly good order, and in this 
are perhaps somewhat more fortunate than some of our sister States. 
Progress at our State level has been particularly good this year, since 
Lieutenant Governor Reinecke has taken a firm hold, and we now seem 
to have up a pretty good momentum, but we must deal with so many 
agencies in the Federal structure that it makes our State work all the 
more difficult. At the State level we very badly need a strong ocean- 
oriented agency in the civilian area of the Federal Government that 
ean help us with our problems, instead of a clutch of diverse agencies 
who at times seem to be more trouble than they are worth, simply 
because one needs to spend most of one’s time in liaison and communt- 
cation with them rather than all hands getting on with the necessary 
work. 
I believe that almost everyone professionally acquainted with ocean 
matters agrees with me that the most urgent problems the Nation has 
with the ocean are those centering in the coastal zone. Here are the 
estuarine, pollution, multiple-use, aesthetic, industrial, recreation, 
social, and economic problems that are so complex, difficult, and inter- 
digitating as to try the patience of Job and the wisdom of Solomon. 
I believe, also, that most believe these can only be dealt with effec- 
tively at the local level. At least that is my experience. To do this 
effectively, the State people must have the help of a strong and coherent 
Federal entity such as NOAA. 
For a good many years I have been Vice Chairman of the Advisory 
Committee on Maritime Resources Research of the Food and Agri- 
cultural Organization of the United Nations. ACMRR advises the 
Director General of FAO on the activities of its Fisheries Depart- 
ment on a worldwide basis, and has the separate additional duty of 
being one of the two official advisory bodies of the Intergovernmental 
Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO. 
We work very closely with the other advisory body of IOC, the 
Scientific Committee on Ocean Research, SCOR, of the International 
Council on Scientific Unions, ICSU, and over recent years with 
appropriate advisory groups from the World Meterorological 
Organization, WMO. 
In these connections, we have also had advisory relations with the 
Secretary General of the United Nations in his responses to various 
ocean initiatives that have arisen in the General Assembly of the 
United Nations over the past few years. I have just returned from 
ACMRR and IOC meetings in Paris. 
When I had written this, I had just returned from ACMRR and 
IOC meetings in Paris, but since then I have been in Africa for the 
