Mr. LEGGETT. You indicated 1,300 additional personnel will be required. We would like to know how many personnel are currently available to do this work, and then I am sure Mr. Anderson would like to know what will the new deployed force look like, how sparse it would be, and then incident to that I think it would be important that we have your existing incidence of reconnaisance flights by area, and all of the details that you keep in your normal routine of business, condensed by areas, and by type of oversight vehicle, whether it be surface or air, also, give us the number of boardings, let us say, you have made in an incremental period of time, whether it be the last 10 months, or 24 months, whatever is convenient for you, and then if you could give us a projection of the number of incidents that the new force would make available for you, the number of incidents either surface inspections, et cetera, that you would forecast you would see made. If you could make that information available to the committee, say, over the next week, that would be helpful to us as we analyze your testimony. Admiral SILER. Yes, sir. I think we can provide that without any difficulty. As far as the number of people involved right now, as concerns, we have 1,906 people involved in the enforcement of laws and treaties in the Coast. Guard. Ninety percent of what we are doing in that program is the fisheries enforcement and surveillance. Mr. LEGGETT. Roughly, you would be doubling your forces? [The following was submitted:] PLANNED APPROACH TO IMPLEMENT THE EXTENDED FISHERIES JURISDICTION Full implementation of the Coast Guard's planned approach to extended fisheries jurisdiction would require an increase in Coast Guard operating facilities of six high endurance cutters, six long range search aircraft, four medium range search aircraft, and ten helicopters for shipboard use. If the extension comes in the relatively near future, six high endurance cutters without the ability to carry helicopters can be reactivated from reserve. Helicopters for shipboard use may also be taken from reserve. Estimated costs based on using these facilities from reserve would be $63.2 million for start up, acquisition, and reactivation; and an increase in operating costs of $47.2 million. Costs are estimated in fiscal 1975 dollars, and they are subject to adjustment. The present locations of short range recovery aircraft (HH-52A helicopters), medium range recovery aircraft (HH-3F helicopters), medium range search aircraft (MRS) (HU-130 fixed wing aircraft), high endurance cutters (WHEC) or HEC including USCGC UNIMAK, medium endurance cutters (WMEC or MEC), patrol craft (WPB), and buoy tenders (generally limited for fisheries enforcement to seagoing buoy tenders designated WLB) which perform the great bulk of fisheries enforcement now and would be expected to do it in the future are shown on the following pages. The location of new facilities would depend on many factors including such things as the desirability of keeping similar units together for ease of supply and maintenance, the proximity of training and overhaul facilities, and the availability of housing for personnel. Facilities for seasonal enforcement might be provided on a temporary basis from another area. New or reactivated facilities might be substituted in certain areas so that facilities now in use would be freed for use elsewhere. On the basis of planned use alone, two of the additional six high endurance cutters will be on the east coast, one will be on the Gulf coast, one on the west coast, one in Hawaii, and one homeported on the west coast for patrol in Alaska. |