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and the fact that you have spoken out in a manner of speaking against 

 the establishment, if you want to put it that way, as you always did, and 

 I admire you for it. 



It gives us an opportunity to study much closer than we have had 

 today your statement, and try to get some amplification of it, and 

 then take these questions that you have raised back to those people 

 who have already indicated their support of the Commission's report, 

 and to those people we have every reason to believe will appear before 

 the committee over the weeks to come in support of and against the 

 recommendations of the Commission, 



Now, outside of the Commission's recommendation of a Govern- 

 ment structure, they made a number of other recommendations, as you 

 know. You limited your statement today primarily to the so-called 

 recommendation of the Commission for the GoA'crnment structure. 



We will stay here until we get a quorum call, if that is the will of 

 the committee. 



Would you like to add that to your statement, for the record ? 



Captain Batter. I should like to say that the recommendations of 

 the Commission are outstanding. By and large, they would supply, 

 to my way of thinking, a great program for the development of the 

 oceans. 



Unfortunately, I do not agree with their recommendations when 

 the subject matter is always given to NOAA. If you take NOAA out 

 of their recommendations, and put it in an organization such as the 

 Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, the Coastal Engineering Branch 

 of the Army Engineers, the Geological Survey, and other active 

 agencies, I think they are outstanding. 



What I do object to is not the studies of their panels which are 

 outstanding. I do object to the proposed organization. As you will 

 remember from Dr. Stratton's testimony, the question of organiza- 

 tion of how to accomplish these recommendations was considered by 

 the Commission as a whole, not with the panel structure. If we could 

 just leave NOAA out of their recommendations, and leave a blank 

 until a Federal structure is arranged, the reconmiendations are fine. 

 It is a marvelous job. 



1 6hj ect to purely the question of the organization. 



I think they are to be congratulated for the best marine study in 

 depth that has occurred in history. I am sorry that they did not con- 

 sider, or feel that they should consider, the questions of the total 

 environment, because Mr. Reedy went into the situation as follows, 

 and I quote from page 57 of the transcript : 



Further down the road, of course, if you were to have a much larger reorgani- 

 zation of the Government, then it would become a totally different matter, but 

 we felt that we haid to operate within the context of the here and now, what 

 exists as a governmental structure, what exists as a series of problems that 

 must be tackled, and we felt that by bringing these agencies together we would 

 have a maximum impact upon the problems that are affecting people today. 



Further in the testimony of Dr. Stratton himself, he indicated that 

 the Commission felt that they were limited to a study of only the 

 marine emdronment. 



My approach today is that the entire environment must be consid- 

 ered, and I don't mean outer space, even though that is important. 



Let's talk about the environment of inner space. I should like to 

 point out on this question that you have discussed so ably, the present 



