MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES. U.S. Congress, Senate. OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE NINETIETH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 3034, H.R. 15224 TO AUTHORIZE APPROPRIATIONS FOR PROCUREMENT OF 1968 SUBCOMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES E. L. BARTLETT, Alaska, Chairman ROBERT P. GRIFFIN, Michigan WARREN G. MAGNUSON, Washington PHILIP A. HART, Michigan DANIEL B. BREWSTER, Maryland ERNEST F. HOLLINGS, South Carolina (II) Dean, Alan L., Assistant Secretary of Administration, Department of Transportation; accompanied by Robert Prestemon, Director of Budget, Department of Transportation_ Smith, Adm. Willard J., Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard; accom- panied by Adm. Paul É. Trimble, Adm. M. A. Whalen, Capt. E. D. (III) The subcommittee met at 10:10 a.m. in room 5110, New Senate Office Building, the Honorable E. L. Bartlett (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Bartlett and Griffin. OPENING STATEMENT BY THE CHAIRMAN Senator BARTLETT. The committee will be in order. The subcommittee is meeting this morning to consider S. 3034 and H.R. 15224 bills to authorize appropriations for procurements of vessels and aircraft and construction of shore and offshore establishments for the Coast Guard. H.R. 15224, as introduced in the House of Representatives is identical to the Senate measure, but the House committee amended the bill to include two additional high-endurance cutters. That bill passed the House with that amendment. Copies of the bills and the letter of transmittal from the Secretary of Transportation and a memorandum summarizing the various provisions of the bill will be placed in the hearing record. (The material referred to follows:) [S. 3034, 90th Cong., second sess.] A BILL 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; (2) 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 tracking radar installation on one high-endurance cutter. Staff member assigned to this hearing: Stanley H. Barer. (1) |