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11. In most cases the annual costs of operating vessels for basic research 

 by non-Government laboratories should be paid for separately from the other 

 expenses of research: for example, through a long-term facilities contract 

 distinct from any research contracts. 



12. The costs of ship operations paid by the Federal Government should 

 be subdivided as follows : The Navy should pay for 50 percent of the opera- 

 tional costs of ships used for basic research, all of the operational costs of ships 

 used in military research and development, and 50 percent of the operational 

 costs of ships used for oceanic surveys. 



The Coast and Geodetic Survey should pay for 50 i)ercent of the operational 

 costs of ships used for surveys. The Bureau of Commercial Fisheries should 

 pay for the operations of ships used for resource and fisheries studies. The Na- 

 tional Science Foundation should pay for 50 percent of the operational costs of 

 ships used for basic research. 



13. Estimated costs of ship operations, both by function and by agency, are 

 given in tables 6 and 7. 



10-Yp:ar Plan for Increasing U.S. Flebtt ofOceanographic Ships 

 Table 1. — Function of ships 



Table 2. — Recommendedi size distribution of new ships 



Table 3. — Recommended sponsors of neto ships 



