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<br />-30- <br /> <br />~~1~S~~ <br />t:J;:i!': <br /> <br />i~t;jI~ <br />I <br /> <br />~?~f;~:~f~~~~ <br /> <br />002777 <br /> <br />5.. Leadership in defining a legal regime for the deep oC'1'an floor, and <br />6. Initiation of a long-range Federal contract program in basic marine <br />technology. <br /> <br />Now, as the Commission's recommendation to create a new and independent <br />agency--NOAA--the Council has proposed, and the President has concurred, <br />that it should be considered as part of a broad review of Federal organiza- <br />tion. <br /> <br />Positive, deliberate and logical steps have been taken. Priority areas have <br />been identified. The President has ordered the appropriate Federal agencies <br />to take these priorities into account in their planning for 1971 and beyond. <br />Task groups have been established by the Council to further refine and deter- <br />mine programs. The President's Advisory Committee on Executive Organi- <br />zation will give early attention to the question of NOAA. <br /> <br />This approach is the style of the Nixon Administration. Not to rush headlong. <br />into hastily conceived positions. Not to make promises that. cannot be <br />delivered. Not to make organizational changes for the sake of change nor <br />invoke innovation to masquerade as improvement. 11 <br /> <br />The Advisory Committee on Executive Organization is chaired by Mr. Roy <br />Ash of Litton Industries. The Committee has not recieved adequate staffing - <br />that will cause a delay in any immediate response by the Administration to <br />the Commis sion' s recommendations. <br /> <br />While the nation contiJlues to mark time, for how much longer I can't even <br />guess, there is an avenue of action that I would like to present for your <br />consideration. <br /> <br />If you consider a city or a state or a nation it has certain resources - two <br />types of resources. One is a natural resource, both mineral and living, <br />and the other, the human resource. If these resources are used improperly, <br />or if they are degraded, or if they are not used and waste away,. the nation <br />is losing assets. <br /> <br />:;;,:,-::;--'..--":-;.. <br />. ;~~.,:.-:-'.:--' . <br /> <br />.-.;: ~. ." <br /> <br /> <br />Consider this nation and its resources. The Departments of HEW and HUD <br />direct their efforts toward developing the human resources. These Depart- <br />ments are observed, advised and instructed by people from the ghetto to the <br />university and are pushed into becoming strong action organizations. <br /> <br />t1-i!3}]2 <br />~...~:);;";::~~,,..:: <br />i.~\:/+:~'~~'; <br /> <br />Now, there is another big sleeping giant- called the Department of Interior, <br />which is responsible for the other major resource, the natural resource, <br />not only at the federal level, but at the state level, too. The Interior <br /> <br />'.::-:;::;-.' <br /> <br />,':.;~-'(:;." <br /> <br />,;. <br /> <br />~IWbtrii!!?~~11!~~it'B~~f&~ill\~f1i;f <br />