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Military Service: U.S. Navy June 1944-February 1946. 
Professional Career (in reverse chronological order): August 1967—February 
1969—Staff Member of the Commission on Marine Science Engineering & 
Resources: specialized in Government-Industry Roles and means for insuring 
‘continuing private sector inputs into the ultimate government organization to be 
recommended by the Commission. Staff member on the Panel on Marine Engi- 
neering and Technology and the Panel on Industry and Private Investment. 
_ June 1961—July 1967—American Machine & Foundry Company, Alexandria, 
Virginia; Program Manager for Underwater Systems. Also served as Charimar 
of the Oceanographic Steering Committee for five of the AMF operating groups. 
Previous Positions: Radio Corporation of America, Camden, New Jersey : Staff 
Member in Undersea Warfare Department; Technitrol Engineering Company, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Mary- 
land: Head, Ultrasonic Transducers Section, Torpedo Division. 
ee eae to President’s Science Advisory Committee Panel on Oceanography, 
1965. 
Professional and Industrial Societies—Membership and Activity—National 
Security Industrial Association (NSIA) : 1961—Present ; National Security Indus- 
trial Association Ocean Science and. Technology Advisory Committee 
(NSTA/OSTAC): Acting Chairman 1965; Chairman, OSTAC Executive Com- 
mittee 1965-Present; Chairman, Second NSIA/OSTAC Government-Industry 
Continental Shelf Conference 1967; Chairman, Steering Committee NSIA—State 
of Oregon Sponsored Coastal States Conference 1968. 
NSIA Antisubmarine Warfare Advisory Committee: Member, Planning Com- 
mittee and Chairman, Oceanography Subcommittee, 1964-1966. 
Marine Technology Society, Inc. (MTS): Vice President for Publications and 
Member of MTS Council, 1966-1969. 
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) : Group Activities— 
Group on Sonics and Ultrasonics, Organizer and First Chairman 1953-1955, 
Member 1953-Present ; Group on Geoscience Electronics, Member 1965—Present. 
STATEMENT OF BRAXTON B. Carr, PRESIDENT, THE AMERICAN WATERWAYS 
‘OPERATORS, INC. 
The American Waterways Operators, Inc. (AWO) is the national trade asso- 
ciation representing the barge and towing industry. Members of AWO operate 
towing vessels and barges, build and service such equipment and provide terminal 
services for waterborne commerce through the United States. The Association’s 
executive office is located at 1250 Connecticut Avenue, Suite 502, Washington, 
D.C. 20036. 
This statement is presented by Braxton B. Carr, president of The American 
Waterways Operators, Inc., under authorization given by resolution of the Asso- 
ciation’s Board of Directors at a meeting held September 11, 1969 at Jacksonville, 
Florida. 
As one of the nation’s developed and growing modes of transportation, the 
barge and towing industry has an interest in the overall proposition to establish 
a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency. Most particularly with respect 
to the bil! under consideration to establish such an agency, AWO has an interest 
in the proposed transfer of the United ‘States Coast Guard from the Department 
of Transportation to the new agency under terms of the bill. 
The barge and towing industry is dependent upon the Coast Guard for a 
multitude of services, all designed to insure the safety of operations for this 
mode of transportation. The Coast Guard’s work in this respect covers a broad 
spectrum of essential transport services: (1) to safeguard personnel working 
aboard towing vessels and barges while in transit and during certain barge 
loading and unloading operations; (2) to safeguard the vessels themselves; (3) 
to safeguard the cargoes of certain barges, particularly tank barges, to insure 
against their loss as a protection to the personnel working aboard such vessels, 
at terminals, and the general public where the public might be affected by 
flammable, combustible, explosive, toxic and/or poisonous cargoes; and (4) 
to safeguard structures alongside, over and under waterways and adjacent shore 
lines. 
The importance of this mode of transportation is demonstrated by the fact 
that domestic waterborne commerce represents 20 percent of total U.S. com- 
merce, with barges performing 1114 percent of total U.S. commerce. While we 
