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Marine and Fisheries.

Subcommittee on Loast

Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Navigation ·

COAST GUARD AUTHORIZATION-1969

SUBCOMMITTEE ON COAST GUARD, COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY, AND NAVIGATION

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETIETH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

H.R. 15224, H.R. 15301, H.R. 15312

BILLS TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS FOR PROCUREMENT
OF VESSELS AND AIRCRAFT AND CONSTRUCTION OF SHORE
AND OFFSHORE ESTABLISHMENTS FOR THE COAST GUARD

SUBCOMMITTEE ON COAST GUARD, COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY, AND NAVIGATION

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Dean, Alan L., Assistant Secretary for Administration, Department of

Transportation__.

Page

Latimer, Capt. J. P., Deputy Chief, Office of Engineering, U.S. Coast
Guard_

Prestemon, R. G., director, Office of Budget, Department of Trans-

portation

Scheiderer, Capt. E. D., Chief, Programs Division, U.S. Coast Guard 25, 35

Smith, Adm., W. J., Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard..

Trimble, Vice Adm. P. E., Assistant Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard. 25, 35

Wenk, Dr. Edward, Jr., Executive Secretary of National Council on
Marine Resources and Engineering Development_ __
Whalen, Rear Adm. M. A., Chief of Staff, U.S. Coast Guard__
Additional material supplied by-

13, 25, 35

25, 35

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Coast Guard—

Acquisition, construction, and improvements, fiscal year 1969

program, table_

Curtis Bay yard improvement program_.

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48.

Family housing at small Coast Guard stations_

High-endurance cutter plan___.

Justification for increased oceanographic ship construction costs_

Miscellaneous urgent and selected aids, Massachusetts..

New York base sewage disposal system costs..

1969 survey and design__

Public family housing Hobucken, N.C...

Status of fiscal year 1968 ACI appropriation as of December 31,

1967, table..

Status of fiscal year 1968 acquisition, construction, and improve-

ment projects, table..

Status of fiscal year 1967 ACI appropriation as of December 31,
1967 table..

Wallabout Housing-

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COAST GUARD AUTHORIZATION-1969

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1968

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

SUBCOMMITTEE ON COAST GUARD, COAST AND

GEODETIC SURVEY, AND NAVIAGTION OF THE

COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES,

Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 10: 10 a.m., pursuant to call, in room 1334, Longworth House Office Building, Hon. Frank M. Clark (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding.

Mr. CLARK. The subcommittee will come to order.

The subcommittee is meeting this morning to consider H.R. 15224, a bill to authorize appropriations for procurement of vessels and aircraft and construction of shore and offshore establishments for the Coast Guard, introduced by our chairman, and similar bills introduced by me and by Mr. Lennon.

(The bills and executive communication 1479 follow :)

[H.R. 15224, H.R. 15301, H.R. 15312, 90th Cong., second sess.]

BILLS To authorize appropriations for procurement of vessels and aircraft and construction of shore and offshore establishments for the Coast Guard

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1969 for the use of the Coast Guard as follows:

Vessels

For procurement, extension of service life, and increasing capability of vessels, $38,904,000.

A. Procurement:

(1) one high-endurance cutter;

(2) one oceanographic cutter;

(3) one coastal buoy tender;

(4) one ferryboat; and

(5) one river tender and barge.

B. Increasing capability:

(1) install generators and air conditioning on five seagoing buoy tenders;

(3) improve habitability on two coastal buoy tenders;

(3) install air conditioning on one coastal buoy tender; and

(4) install balloon tracking radar on two high endurance cutters and modify balloon tracing radar installation on one high endurance cutter. C. Extension of service life:

(1) improve icebreakers; and

(2) increase fuel capacity and improve habitability on high endurance cutters.

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