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mission could be implemented with respect to the coastal zones and the 
regional laboratories. Therefore, I would like to know if you all have 
seriously thought about this or if it is just something that you are 
saying that you intend to do sometime in the future because you are 
talking about the thing that they are going to meet here on next week. 
Mr. MosHer. Would the gentleman yield ? 
Mr. Lennon. Yes. 
Mr. Mosuer. I think Dr. DuBridge in response to a question from 
me indicated that he would certainly hope and expect that this legisla- 
tion would be recommended to us well before the end of this session of 
Congress. I hope he is right, but I would think that the legislation 
could well consider the outcome or the recommendations that may 
come out of this very timely meeting that you have called next week. 
I hope that the administration will be participating in that meeting 
aud very genuinely observing the advice we get from the coastal 
tates. 
Dr. DuBriper. I will certainly report back your sense of urgency 
on this and see what can be done to accelerate it. 
Mr. Lennon. I thank the gentleman for calling that to my atten- 
tion because there are a number of people at the executive level in the 
departments participating either as panelists or as moderators on this 
very subject. . 
Dr. DuBringr. Yes, sir. 
Mr. Lennon. I got the impression from you, sir, that perhaps this 
legislation was expected shortly after the turn of this calendar year. 
But now you are reassuring the gentleman from Ohio that it will be 
sent up to Congress in some reasonably definitive form or at least as a 
vehicle which the committee can consider in this calendar year. 
Dr. DuBrincr. The intention is to try to act promptly on this, 
but I am sorry that I cannot guarantee you a schedule. I do not know 
in what state the legislative proposal writing now is, but I will carry 
back your message of urgency and see if it cannot be accelerated. 
Mr. Lunnon. Now, the same thing of course you say on page 13, line 
9, “The second of the priority programs is the establishment of coastal 
laboratories.” 
Which is related, of course, to your first legislation. 
Doctor, someone suggested the other day that suppose there had been 
SLx, Seven, eight, nine, 10, 11 agencies which were interested in space 
some 10 years ago. It is not likely that that would have been, but assum- 
ing it had been so, is it likely that we would have had a man on the 
moon with 11 departments desiring to continue their efforts? 
Dr. DuBriner. This took a coordinated effort. I certainly agree. 
The point is not that it isn’t desirable to have concentration of respon- 
sibility in one agency. The reason I mentioned the difference between 
NASA is that it was not only desirable but easy to do because there 
were no conflicting governmental responsibilities and traditions of 
long standing. 
In the ocean area you face the organizational] difficulty that no matter 
how desirable one might think a coordinated wet NASA might be, the 
task of creating it is far more difficult, politically, from the point of 
view of the conflicting interests of various committees of the Congress, 
the conflicting interests of the various agencies and departments of 
Government, that the task is very much more difficult and will re- 
