aspects as they relate to climate is noted and will be given 
consideration in the process of establishing program priorities 
for future budgets. The two agencies will proceed in a coordi- 
nated fashion to ensure that the various aspects of oceanography 
as they relate to the important problem of climate are con- 
sidered. 
The committee has brought to our attention the fact that an 
important aspect of environmental impact statements as they 
relate to the siting of power plants ought to include an assess- 
ment of possible effects on the local climate which might result 
from the concentration of plants at particular sites. This is a 
problem of some importance, and the Atomic Energy Commis- 
sion and other appropriate agencies will continue to work to 
improve our knowledge of the climatic impact of such large 
sources of heat in order to permit useful impact analyses for 
specific sites. 
The problems posed by climate variation are of worldwide 
concern. The recent bilateral agreements between the United 
States and the Soviet Union provide for joint study of the 
causes of these variations. The concern of the Administration 
for international efforts to attack the climate problem was given 
eloquent voice by Secretary of State Kissinger before the recent 
United Nations Conference on National Resources. In that 
speech, he said: 
“The poorest nations, already beset by man-made dis- 
asters, have been threatened by a natural one: the possi- 
bility of climatic changes in the monsoon belt and 
perhaps throughout the world. The implications for 
global food and population policies are ominous. The 
United States proposes that the International Council of 
Scientific Unions and the World Meteorological Organi- 
zation urgently investigate this problem and _ offer 
guidelines for immediate international action.” 
The Secretary of State’s proposals have been rapidly followed 
by proposals of the United States in the World Meteorological 
Organization’s Executive Committee meeting to make this a 
priority area of attention during the coming years. 
OCEAN RESOURCES, REGULATION, AND RESEARCH 
We are pleased to have the revised views of NACOA on 
questions of how to organize the Federal effort for national 
