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NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY ASSOCIATION QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS, 1969/11 



115 148 263 



Corporate Individual Total 



No No No 



Questions Yes No opinion Yes No opinion Yes No opinion 



1. (a) A new strong Federal focus tor marine 



activity is essential to a national ocean 



effort .- Ill 1 3 140 7 1 251 8 4 



Percent 96.6 .8 2.6 94.6 4.7 .6 95.5 3.0 1.5 



(b) The Commission recommends that the 



National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agen- 

 cy (NOAA) be established as an inde- 

 pendent agency, reporting directly to the 



President 95 



Percent 82.6 



(c) The Commission recommends that the 



National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agen- 

 cy initially be composed of the U.S. 

 Coast Guard, the Environmental Science 

 Services Administration, the Bureau of 

 Commercial Fisheries (augmented by 

 the marine and anadromous fisheries 

 functions of the Bureau of Sport Fisheries 

 and Wildlife), the National Sea Grant 

 program, the U.S. Lake Survey, and the 



National Oceanographic Data Center 87 



Percent 75.6 



2. Programs recommended by the Commission are 



estimated to involve an annual expenditure 

 growing to 1980 to roughly $1,000,000,000 per 

 year over and above current program levels.. 85 

 Percent-. 73.9 



3. The Commission proposes that a small group of 



institutions, including the present leaders in 

 ocean research, be designated by the Federal 

 Government as university-national laboratories 

 and equipped to undertake major marine 

 science tasks of a global or regional nature. 

 (Estimated Federal cost, 1971 to 1980, $445,- 



000,000.) 82 



Percent 71.3 



4. The Commission recommends that the primary 



responsibility for management of the coastal 

 zone continue to be vested in the States but 

 that Federal legislation be enacted to en- 

 courage and support the creation of State 

 coastal zone authorities to carry out specified 

 national objectives with regard to the zone. 

 The authorities should have clear powers to 

 plan and regulate land and water uses and to 

 acquireand develop land inthecoastalzone... 89 

 Percent _ 77.4 



5. The Commission recommends that NOAA launch 



a national project to explore the techniques of 

 water quality restoration for the Great Lakes. 

 (Estimated Federal cost, 1971 to 1980, $175,- 



000,000.)... 92 



Percent 80.0 



6. The Commission recommends that legislation be 



enacted to remove the present legal restric- 

 tions on the use of foreign-built vessels by 

 U.S. fishermen intheU.S. domestic fisheries... 74 

 Percent 64.3 



7. There is no urgent necessity to develop subsea 



hard minerals with maximum speed regard- 

 less of cost. Nevertheless, an early start of off- 

 shore exploration and development of the re- 

 quired technology is warranted to determine 

 reserves and to establish a basis for future 

 exploration. (Estimated Federal cost, 1971 to 



1980, $150,000,000.). _.. 94 



Percent 81.8 



8. The Commission recommends that the United 



States take the initiative to secure interna- 

 tional agreement on a redefinition of the "con- 

 tinental shelf" for purposes of the Convention 

 on the Continental Shelf. The seaward limit 

 of each coastal nation's "continental shelf" 

 should be fixed at the 200-meter isobath, or 

 50 nautica I miles from the baseline for meas- 

 uring the breadth of its territorial sea, which- 

 ever alternative gives it the greater area for 



purposes of the convention 76 



Percent 66.1 



See footnote at end of table, p. 314. 



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