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Mr. Salmon. I Avill be glad to, sir. T have reviewed the activities the 

 Department is engajs^ed in and have characterized the^se responsibilities 

 as three general areas : One, the management of U.S. participation in 

 .several intergovernmental organizations active to some degree in ma- 

 rine pollntion control ; two, the management of U.S. participation in 

 the negotiations of international agreements or treaties designed to 

 curb marine pollution; and thi-eo, the direction of TLS. Government 

 Federal agencies' cooperation with counterpart agencies in other gov- 

 ei'nments under various bilateral agi'cements. 



The Stockholm Conference last year dexeloped more than 100 

 recommendations, and I am making available to the committee this 

 morning a copy of those recommendations which emanated from that 

 conference. 



I would like to make particnlar note of the kevstone action at the 

 Stockholm Conference: The U.N. Fund on the Environment which 

 the United States proposed a year ago and which was adopted and 

 approved at Stockholm by the General Assembly last winter. 



We have to date 9() percent promised or indicated participation in 

 this $100 million fund for the first 5 years. Part of that, up to 40 per- 

 cent, would come from the United States. Legislation and appro- 

 priation requests are pending with tlie Congress now on that matter. 

 The action arm of the United Nation in the environmental field is 

 known as tlie environmental program. The Secretariat reports to a 

 policy group composed of a 58-nation environmental governing council. 

 I mention in my testimony a numbei' of activities of the specialized 

 agencies of the United Nations. I think most important for this com- 

 mittee's consideration at this time is the work of IMCO and a number 

 of conventions that they have worked on, the implementing legisla- 

 tion of which is under review of this committee. 



I particularly wanted to mention, with regard to the Stockholm 

 Conference, that an ocean dumping provision was deA^eloped during 

 its preparatory phase. This was concluded after the Stockholm Con- 

 ference at a meeting in London from Octol)er 30 to November lo. We 

 will be talking to you next week, sir, on the Ocean Dumping Con- 

 A^ontion, although we will go into more detail at this time if that is 

 desired. 



I think it would be appropriate to specifically mention our coopera- 

 tion with other countries. 



Of greatest intei-est in the recent past has been our cooperation with 

 the Soviet Union. This agreement was signed in May 1972, and the 

 work in the mai-ine pollution area Avas one of 11 projects which were 

 part of that package at that time known as the Cooperative Agree- 

 ment on Enviromnental Cooperation. 



The marine pollution area has since been divided into three topics. 

 These deal with marine pollution in shipping, pollution from oil and 

 fras production and drilling, and the effects of pollution on marine 

 life. 



