2) Such research must be purely scientific 

 research into the physical or biological 

 characteristics of the Continental Shelf; 



3) Results of such research must be published. 



Consequently, research previously conducted as a matter of right by this or 

 any nation outside the territorial sea of another nation but on that portion 

 of the Continental Shelf over which such nation has jurisdiction, is seri- 

 ously curtailed. We must obtain the consent of such nations and comply with 

 the other requirements imposed by the Convention. Those oceanographic re- 

 search provisions of the Convention have had and will continue to have an 

 important impact upon the "ocean-wide, ocean-deep" efforts included in our 

 national oceanographic program. We must now conceive the means to implement 

 these programs through cooperative agreements with other nations. It is 

 entirely possible, if not probable, that the implementation of such agree- 

 ments will require further legislation inasmuch as the provisions of the 

 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act are not well adapted to this purpose. 



With regard to cooperative efforts between nations in development and 

 research efforts on the Outer Continental Shelf, I might mention that 

 President Johnson has, by Presidential proclamation ^ declared this to be 

 International Cooperation Year. Hopefully many of the problems we presently 

 encounter in developing these resources under the Convention may be worked 

 out through study and cooperative efforts during the International Coopera- 

 tion Year. 



