Excerpt from Marine Science Affairs, a Year of Transition: The First Report of the President to the Congress on Marine Resources and Engineering Development; February, 1967 The Marine Resources and Engineering Development Act, Public Law 89 - 454, calls on the President to develop a comprehensive, long-range, and coordinated national program in marine science, with the assistance of a National Council on Marine Resources and Engi neering Development, and an advisory Commission on Marine Science, Engineering, and Resources. The Council is composed of the Vice President, who serves as Chairman, five members of the Cabinet and three heads of other Federal agencies. It has statutory responsibility to advise and assist the President in policy planning and coordination of the marine sci ence programs of eleven Federal agencies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.