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OCEAN SCIENCE CAPITAL CorP., 
Palo Alto, Calif., September 8, 1969. 
Hon. ALTON LENNON, 
House of Representatives, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Long- 
worth House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 
Dear Mr. LENNon: Thank you for the copy of your bill H.R. 13247, the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Program Act of 1969. 
Speaking from my professional business viewpoint in the ocean science in- 
dustry, I endorse your bill to set up within the Federal Government a NOAA-type: 
organization along the general lines proposed by the Stratton Commission. I 
have enclosed a copy of a brief brochure describing our company’s operations 
and you can see our close association with approximately a dozen companies 
involved in ocean science enterprise. It is my belief shared by most of my 
business colleagues that coordinated action and purpose is required within the 
Federal Government structure before a meaningful oceanographic program is 
possible within the United States. The NOAA-type organization such as is pro- 
posed by your H.R. 13247 is the product of careful study and deliberation by very 
knowledgeable men in this field in whom I have faith and thus must represent 
the most rational and proper course of action for our Federal Government to 
take. 
As you are quite aware, there has been over the past five years major efforts 
put forth by the private sector to develop in the United States a strong oceano- 
graphic industrial capability. Of late, however, the pressures on government fund- 
ing caused by external needs plus other pressing internal economic requirements 
has left the budding oceanographic industrial capability in United States with 
little economic encouragement from our Government. This lack of Federal 
funding compounded by a vastly disorganized Federal “purpose” in oceanographic 
endeavor has caused much of the private sector oceanographic enterprise begun 
of late to pull back. Recognizing that major economic inputs by the Government 
into a national oceanographic program is an unlikely event in the near future, 
I think it highly proper for the Federal Government to do some proper house- 
keeping on the organizational status of its oceanographic program so that the 
country can rise to meet its ocean related needs when either the economic means 
are available or when such activity is forced upon the U.S. by outside factors not 
yet obivous (i.e. : an oceanographic sputnik). 
Thank you for the opportunity of commenting on your bill. 
Sincerely, 
F. WARD PAINE, President. 
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY, 
Publisher of Audubon Magazine, 
New York, N.Y., November 14, 1969. 
Hon. ALTON LENNON, 
Chairman, Subcommittee on Oceanography, House Committee on Merchant 
Marine and Fisheries, House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 
DEAR Mr. LENNON: I understand your Subcommittee may be acting soon in 
executive session to mark up and possibly to report H.R. 13247, your important 
bili that would, among other purposes, establish an independent federal agency 
to be called the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency. 
The National Audubon Society respectfully but strongly urges the Subcom- 
mittee, before reporting this bill, to delete subsections (c) and (d) on page 19. 
The ecological relationships between the resources regulated and administered 
by the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife and the Bureau of Commercial 
Fisheries are so close that it is essential the policies and programs of these two 
bureaus be closely coordinated. This is the reason why both are now lodged in 
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, within the Department of the Interior, where 
common principles of conservation and management can be applied. It is an 
arrangement that also enhances coordination and economies in research. 
I believe that upon reflection the Subcommittee will see the advisability of 
keeping the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries and the Bureau of Sport Fisheries 
and Wildlife together within the Department of the Interior. 
Sincerely yours, 
CHARLES H. CALLISON, 
Executive Vice President. 
