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suppose all of the income to this nation is from the current develop- 
ment of the resources of the seas. 
Dr. DuBriver. I wouldn’t have any idea. 
Mr. Rocers. I would guess it probably would be one and a half 
billion to two billion dollars. 
We get about a half billion dollars a year from royalties on leases. 
of oil and sulphur alone, a half billion dollars. 
You mentioned we are putting a half billion dollars into our pro- 
gram, but that comes back to the Government immediately from 
resources. 
Now, that doesn’t count fish products, all of those other resources 
of the sea. So I would hope you could take a message back to the 
administration for a review of the economic benefit that can come 
and the importance of really doing something, moving ahead and not 
being timid. 
This is what we want to get at, really doing something, and IT 
think with your help and some leadership in the office which you 
hold, which is most important to this activity, that we can move even 
more rapidly. 
I admit there will be some problems, but I think with some firm 
leadership we could do something, and I would hope that you can 
give some personal attention as I know you will to this particular 
problem, Doctor. 
Dr. DuBriwer. I certainly will. 
Mr. Rocers. Thank you. 
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 
(The following was suppled in response to the above:) 
CONTRIBUTION TO THE GROSS NATIONAL PRopUCT FROM THE RESOURCES 
OF THE SEA 
The total contributions to the gross national product of all oceanic resources 
has been estimated as of June 1969 at about twenty billion dollars or about 
2% of the gross national product itself. This is the monetary contribution to 
the gross national product and of course does not include such non-monetary 
values as recreation, boating, sporting activities and aesthetic beauty. The 
direct yield to the Federal Treasury from bonuses, rents and royalties of outer 
continental shelf lands for 1969 was seven hundred and fourteen million dollars 
or a little less than one-half of one percent of the total Federal income from 
all sources. This brings the total yield to the Federal Treasury from outer 
continental shelf receipts to four and one-half million dollars since 1955. 
Most figures are expected to increase in the future. 
Mr. Lennon. The gentleman from Washington. 
Mr. Petty. Dr. DuBridge, I think your statement is very helpful, 
at least as helpful as it can be. Your colloquy with Mr. Mosher pointed 
up that it is impossible to clarify any further at this time the position 
of the administration on this legislation. 
I am not going to pass over one thing that you said however, and 
that is that the development of NASA, which has been so successful, 
involved only new programs, but a lot of those programs, of course, 
were in the Department of Defense and were transferred over into 
civilian agency rather than have them promoted by the military. 
Dr. DuBriner. That is true. There was a transfer and a consolida- 
tion there, but it still was a brand new area of technology, civilian 
space exploration which nobody was handling at that time. 
