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Mr. John D. Reilly, Vice President, Todd Shipyards Corporation, 260 California 
Street, San Francisco, California 94111. 
Mr. John E. Robb, Manager, Development Engineering, Bechtel Corporation, 
50 Beale Street, San Francisco, California 94104. 
Dr. Milner B. Schaefer,’ Director, Institute of Marine Resources, University of 
California, P.O. Box 109, La Jolla, California 92037. 
Mr. Frederick C. Stanford, Management Consultant, Louis A. Allen Associates, 
Inec., 615 University Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94301. 
Dr. Richard B. Tibby,’ Director, Catalina Marine Science Center, University of 
Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90007. 
Mr. Georg Treichel,’ Director, Center for the Study of General Ecology and En- 
vironmental Planning, San Francisco State College, San Francisco, California 
94132. 
Dr. 8S. V. Wantrup,’ Professor of Agricultural eegpomies: 207 Giannini Hall, 
University of California, Berkeley, California 9472 
Honorable James Q. Wedworth, Senator from Los ee State Capitol, Room 
5046, Sacramento, California 95814. 
Prof. Robert L. Wiegel,’ Professor of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil 
Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720. 
Honorable Pete Wilson,* Assemblyman from San Diego, State Capitol, Room 4121, 
Sacramento, California 95814. 
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE COMMISSION 
Mr. John H. Dolan, Executive Director, California Advisory Commission 
on Marine & Coastal Resources, 1320, K Street, Room 502, Sacramento, 
California 95814. 
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, 
Seattle, Wash., September 15, 1969. 
Congressman ALTON LENNON, 
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Longworth House Office Building, 
Washington, D.C. 
DEAR Mr. LENNON: I am submitting herewith a paper entitled “Law, Science 
and the Ocean” for insertion in the record of the hearings on the recommendations 
of the Marine Science Commission. The comments in the paper are primarily di- 
rected at some considerations pertinent to parts of the Commission report dealing 
with international law and policy. It also is pertinent to the subject-matter to 
add my opinion that the highest importance attaches to the Commission recom- 
mendation of a National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency. A reorganiza- 
tion of the exeeutive branch similar if not identical to NOAA as recommended by 
the Commission deserves the strongest possible support. 
Sincerely, 
WILLIAM T. BURKE, 
Professor of Law. 
LAw, SCIENCR, AND THE OCEAN 
(W. T. Burke, Professor of Law, School of Law, University of Washington) 
Nearly everyone who can read or even watch television is by now aware that 
the ocean and the resources thereof, much being unknown, are today a subject 
of great interest, excitement, and hope. One of the reasons for this is that very 
frequently we are assured, virtually promised even, that in this vast region lie 
both enormous resources as well as great possibilities for international coopera- 
tion that will together solve many, if not all, our landbound problems of hunger, 
poverty, disease, and widespread violence. Most of this vision of a trouble-free 
future due to a bulging storehouse of ocean riches is an exaggeration if not a 
hoax. However the values that may be obtainable from the sea are surely large, 
despite these unfortunately magnified forecasts, and already scientists, econo- 
mists, lawyers, and others are under some pressure to use their knowledge and 
skills to improve the production and distribution of these values. 
Lawyers are now exercised about many issues, but principally with two ques- 
tions: the limit on coastal control and jurisdiction over the seabed and subsoil, 
i.e., the continental shelf, and the nature of the regulatory system for mineral 
exploitation beyond this limit. The following remarks are addressed both to the 
substance of recent recommendations on these issues and to some possible con- 
1 Denotes commissioners present at Fifth Meeting of Commission. 
