JFFICIAL USE ONL — Engineering Development (Marine Sciences Council) and the closely related Commission on Marine Science, Engineering, and Resources plus their various subcommittees and panels are busily examining the roles of government agencies in oceanography. Their recommendations, due the Winter of 1968, will probabiy influence the structure of the federal government's program in oceanography. In the Spring of 1968 the President called for an International Decade of Ocean Exploration (IDOE) beginning in 1970. A group of scientists representing five universities has suggested chat an integrated efforc be devoted to look at certain trace elements (including radionuclides) in the world’s oceans to determine residence times, mixing races, and current structure, Dr. Osterberg is hopeful that the AEC can Support that pertion of the LDOE program involving radioactive tracers, Since these tracers rhow considerable promise as research tools in VCédarogzrapny. Program for iZfth ACBM Meeting. Mr, Deal discussed briefly the program that he and che staff at NTS and NVOO are planning for the 12/th ACBM meeting to be held November 7-9, 1968. ExecutiveSession. UCLA. Mr. Stanwood briefed the members of the Committee on the current status of problems of the DBM-supported program at the Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Biology, UCLA. [In sammary, DBM staff has taken steps to implement the recommendations ol the ACBM subcommittee’s report cf February 1968. involving discussions with the Commission, JCAE staff, In the interim, the existing and University of California officials. contract has had several short-term extensions, including the present one through December 31, 1968, While most of the operating difficulties seem to have been resolved and a plan mutually developed for strengthening this program, the JCAE staff has not yet granted approval for 1ts adoption and full term extension of the contract. The single obstacle centers around the disposition cf the employment case of laboratory staff member Dr. R. i. Lehman. The JCAE staff has requested that the AEC evaluate Dr. Lehman's work and the history of his case. and further stated that they tntended independently to review the matter by another JCAE staff visit to UCLA. ACBM members were advised that DBM proposed to present the entire matter once again to the Commission to obtain its guidance. ACBMReplacements. The following names were suggested for consideration to replace ACBM members whose appointments expire June 30, 1969: Dr.Green: J. V. Neel, William J. Schull, James Crow, Seymour Lederberg, George Beadle, FE. L. Tatum, Ray Owen, N. Mendelsohn, R. P. Levine, Gunther Stent, R. Lewontin, Clifford Grobstein, Charles Yanofsky, R. Billingham, Bruce Wailace, W. K. Baker. OFFICIAL USE ONLY