JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Release Date: October 25, 2005
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• Publication Date: May 15, 1975
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 15 May 1975
C!A INTERNAL USE ONLY
1. (Unclassified - DFM) Received a call from George Gilbert,
)MB, regarding their request of May 14th for our comments on. proposed
May 16th testimony of regarding the recent Geneva
Session of the Law of the ea on erence. I called 25X1
OGCR, and in his absence spoke to his assistant, I sumrnarizc215X1
the testimony for Il and he believed it to be accurate. I then informed
George Gilbert that the Agency had no problems with the proposed testimony..
2. (Unclassified.- LLM) Ralph Preston, Defense Subcommittee,
House Appropriations Committee staff, returned Mr. Cary's call and
confirmed that the briefing for the Subcommittee at 1:30 p. m, on the
Mayaguez incident was still scheduled for this afternoon and the events
of last night have not closed out their interest on the subject.
3. (Confidential -- LLM) Accompanied
briefing of Representative Donald Riegle (D., Mich.) on
Blake, Administrative Assistant, was
OCI, to a
The briefing went
very well and Mr. Riegle was truly appreciative. We will provide
several items for his reading, including a copy of the Middle East Atlas
and the column by Ray Vicker on "Sadat's Diplomatic Offensive."
25X1
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4. (Confidential - LLM) Accompaniedi NIO/SEA., 25X1
to an executive session briefing of the Defense Subcommittee, House
Appropriations Committee, on the Mayaguez incident. See Memorandum
for the Record.
5. (Unclassified - LLM) Called Julie Pineau, Secretary to
Representative Paul McCloskey (R., Calif. ) and, told her that if his. schedule"
permits, we probably could squeeze in a briefing on the Soviet Merchant fleet
this afternoon but otherwise it would have to go over to early next week.
She said his schedule was tied up this afternoon. but would check and lot
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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
WASHINGTON, O.C. 20503
May 14, 1975
LEGISLATIVE REFERRAL MEMORANDUM
To: Legislative Liaison Officer
Department of Commerce Department of Justice
Department of Defense Department of .the Treasu:
Department of Transportation Department of State
Central Intelligence Agency National Security Counci
National Science Foundation
Council on Environmental Quality
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal Energy Administration
Agency for International Development
Subject: Proposed testimony of Leigh S. Ratiner regarding the
result of the recent Geneva Session of the LOS Conference, parti-
cularly the progress of Committee I on deep seabed mining. See
A so attache note re ardin clearance f other LOS related tesui
The office of Management angd Budget would appreciate mony.
receiving the views of your agency on the above subject
before advising on its relationship to the program of the
President, in accordance with OMB Circular A--19.
To permit expeditious handling, it is requested
that your reply be made.within 30 day.
( X) Special circumstances require priority treatment
and accordingly your views are requested by
3:00 p.m. Thursday, May 15, 1975 in connection
with hearings scheduled for May 16, 1975.
Questions should be referred to Mike Usnick
(103-4580 ) or to George Gilbert ( 103-4710
the legislative analyst in this office.
ZqX
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Legislative Reference
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DATE 5/14/75
The LOS Interagency Task Force has also advised us that it
will be circulating proposed testimony by John Norton Moore
(chairman of the Task Force) and Thomas A. Clingan (State
Dept.) to agency LOS representatives for comment by Friday,
May 16, 1975. Moore and Clingan are scheduled to appear
before the House Merchant Marine Fisheries Subcte on
Monday, May 19, and before the Senate Foreign Relations
Cte on Tuesday, May 20 to discuss progress made in the
Geneva session of the LOS conference. It is anticipated
that they will make essentially the same statements before
both groups.
As in the past, please check with your agency's LOS repre-
sentative, and with other parts of your department or agency
as you deem necessary and appropriate, and coordinate your
comments on these statements back to the LOS Task Force
through your Task Force representative. If you have ques-
tions or if other problems arise, please call Mike Usnick
(103 x 4580) or George Gilbert (103 x 4710) in 0MB.
Unless we hear otherwise, we will assume that the position
given to the. Task Force by your LOS representative repre-
sents the coordinated position of your department or agency.
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STATEMENT OF . ~/ f o
LEIGH S. RATINEI2.
ADMINISTRATOR
OCEAN MIN.T.NNC ADMINISTRATION
DEPARV?1ENT OF THE INTERIOR
Before Subcommittee on. Oceanography of
the House Committee on Merchant Marine
and Fisheries
May 16, 1975
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Mr. Chairman:
I am pleased to be invited to appear before you today'
and to share some of my thoughts on developments at. the
recently concluded Geneva Session of the Law of the Sea
Conference. As you are aware, my primary involvement in
the Conference is as our' representative in Committee I
of the Conference which deals with the deep seabed and
ocean mining. With your permission, I would like
restrict, my remarks today to that subject. The NSC Inter-
agency Task Force on the Law of the Sea has not yet had
the opportunity to assess the results of this session or
to review what policy options should be pursued in the
light of those results. Accordingly, my remarks are only
of the most preliminary and tentative nature.
The efforts of Committee I, which deals with the
establishment of a new internationa1 regime and machinery
for deep ocean mining, were characterized by more serious
negoti.aticns at the Geneva session than have occurred in
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previous sessions of the Law of the Sea Conference.
However, these efforts were rewarded with only limited
-success on the critical issues before the Committee.
In my view, a L ajor stumbling block in these negotiations
is the desire on the part of most developing countries
to.use the deep seabed as a concrete opportunity to
implement the so-called "new economic order" which calls
for increasing the effective control of developing countries
over needed raw materials and the quest of the industrialized
countries for'new, secure sources'of supplies of raw materials.
For this reason, we have found progress in Committee I
particularly difficult to achieve.
I believe the United States entered the Geneva session
with a reasonable and forthcoming position on many of the
issues that directly concern developing countries, particularly
on the question of ensuring developing-country participaticn
in ocean mining. In fairness it should be noted that the
developing countries also made a genuine effort to be
responsive to some of the concerns of the industrialized
countries. Despite these attempts to reach an accommodaticn,
little progress was made in bridging the gap among nations
on the basic aspects of the system under which ocean mining
will occur, although there were some significant signs of
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progress on issues involving-the structure, powers and
voting mechanisms of the proposed International Seabed
Authority. In summing up the differences among nations
on the exploitation system, I believe the following comments
by Ambassador John R. Stevenson in his\final press statement
on May 9, 1975, are useful:
..in a world where we have all felt the effects'
not only of scarcity of vital raw materials, but of
uncertainty of access to them, nations. are not prepared,
in my judgment, to subject their access to seabed
minerals to a system of exploration and exploitation
and to a decision-making process in which they do not
have reasonable assurances of security of access, and
may not be adequately represented. Moreover, I do not
think it will be possible, seen against the background
of today's developments in raw materials matters, to
agree to give ultimate powers of exclusive exploitation
to a single new international entity. The United States
has been willing to work with-all nations of tie world
to ensure that a system of exploitation is devised. that
will permit both sharing in the benefits and-future
participation in the development of these resources.
So far, however, basic compromises on this most
difficult of issues have eluded all of us,'-although I.
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am pleased to say that on some of the important
issues progress has been made."
The most tangible result of the Geneva session in
Committee I was the introduction by its Chairman of a
draft treaty for future negotiating efforts which was
prepared as a personal effort at the request of the
Conference. In addition, this document included as an
annex a set of basic conditions for general survey,
exploration and exploitation. The Interagency Law of the
Sea Task Force has not been able to review these drafts
in detail, since they were introduced on the last day of
the Conference. It is important to emphasize, however,
that these draft articles are intended to be the negotiating
documents for the next session of the Conference and were
not discussed within Committee I. They are-exclusively
the personal work product of the individuals who prepared
them.
With respect to the next session of the Conference, I
am sure the Committee is aware'that-the Conference decided
to recommend to the General Assembly the convening of an
eight-week session beginning March 29, 1976. The previous
assessment of the Executive Branch that it would be possib'e
to conclude a law of the sea convention by the end of 1975
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has thus been proven to be overly optirAistic. During the
next few weeks, the Executive Branch will be intensively
studying what policies should now be adopted in light of
this unanticipated delay in the completion of. the work of
the Conference. While I am confident that this assessment
will conclude that international cooperation in the deep
seabed continues to be a worthwhile objective for the
United States to pursue, other available options will
have to.be given serious consideration. Following this
review, I would be happy to appear before the Committee
again at your convenience, and discuss with you our assess-
ment.
The Office of Management and Budget advises that, from
the standpoint of the Administration's program, there is
no objection to the presentation of this statement.
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