Printed for the use of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries 70-552 O U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1966 COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES EDWARD A. GARMATZ, Maryland, Chairman LEONOR K. (MRS. JOHN B.) SULLIVAN, Missouri FRANK M. CLARK, Pennsylvania FRANK A. STUBBLEFIELD, Kentucky JACOB H. GILBERT, New York J. RUSSELL TUTEN, Georgia WILLIAM L. ST. ONGE, Connecticut JOHN G. DOW, New York RAYMOND F. CLEVENGER, Michigan JOSEPH E. KARTH, Minnesota WILLIAM D. HATHAWAY, Maine WALTER B. JONES, North Carolina LERA (MRS. ALBERT) THOMAS, Texas WILLIAM S. MAILLIARD, California THOMAS M. PELLY, Washington STANLEY R. TUPPER, Maine CHARLES A. MOSHER, Ohio JAMES R. GROVER, JR., New York ROGERS C. B. MORTON, Maryland HASTINGS KEITH, Massachusetts JACK EDWARDS, Alabama G. ROBERT WATKINS, Pennsylvania ED REINECKE, California JOHN M. DREWRY, Chief Counsel SUBCOMMITTEE ON OCEANOGRAPHY ALTON LENNON, North Carolina, Chairman FDITH GREEN, Oregon THOMAS N. DOWNING, Virginia CHARLES A. MOSHER, Ohio THOMAS M. PELLY, Washington STANLEY R. TUPPER, Maine HASTINGS KEITH, Massachusetts ED REINECKE, California LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Hon. ALTON LENNON, THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE SERVICE, Washington, D.C., January 9, 1967... Chairman, Subcommittee on Oceanography, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. DEAR MR. LENNON: I am pleased to forward an "Abridged Chronology of Events Related to Federal Legislation for Oceanography, 1956-66" in response to your request. This chronology was first prepared in January 1965 on the initiative of the Science Policy Research Division, when intensified activity in the 89th Congress in the field of ocean sciences and engineering was reflected in frequent requests for information and legislative research. The chronology was then updated, and published as a committee print by your committee on July 15, 1965. Subsequent congressional activities culminated in enactment of several major pieces of legislation in 1966 and the revisions have been incorporated to bring the chronology up to date through January 9, 1967. The study is in five parts. Part I is a chronology, beginning with landmark events in 1956, that highlights legislatively significant action by both the President and the Congress; part II contains explanatory notes which elucidate contents of the earlier list; part III is a brief summary of Federal funding in oceanography, by agency and functional area; part IV contains a summary of congressional action by the 86th, 87th, 88th, and 89th Congresses related to oceanographic legislation; and part V is a selected bibliography of those papers and articles bearing on elements of oceanography of legislative rather than scientific interest. This revised chronology was prepared by Miss Florence Broussard, Administrative Research Assistant, under the guidance of Dr. Edward Wenk, Jr., while Chief of the Science Policy Research Division. Sincerely, LESTER S. JAYSON, Director. III |