COMMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE 
SECRETARY OF COMMERCE ON THE 
THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL 
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON OCEANS 
AND ATMOSPHERE 
PREFACE 
Public Law 92-125, which established the National 
Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere re- 
quires that the annual report of the Committee “shall 
be submitted to the Secretary of Commerce who shall 
within 90 days after receipt thereof transmit copies 
to the President and to the Congress with his comments 
and recommendations.” Accordingly, I have reviewed 
the Third Annual Report of the National Advisory 
Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere and have in- 
corporated the viewpoints of all interested Federal 
agencies in these comments and recommendations. The 
comments have been organized to parallel the presenta- 
tion in the Committee report and under the same chap- 
ter headings. 
INTRODUCTION 
Once again it is my pleasure to comment upon the thoughtful 
findings and recommendations of the National Advisory Com- 
mittee on Oceans and Atmosphere (NACOA) presented in its 
third annual report. I am impressed with the manner in 
which the advisory committee has successively focused during 
its first three years of existence on problems which are at the 
heart of some of our most urgent national and global concerns. 
CLIMATE AND THE OCEANS, FOOD AND ENERGY 
The principal new focus of the committee’s report for 1974 
is on food and energy as these problems are intertwined with 
