Table IX-3 — Funding for Ocean Observation and Prediction 



[In niillions of dollars] 



Estimated Estimated President's 

 Agency fiscal year fiscal year budget 



196'J 1970 fiscal year 



1971 



Department of Defense 



Navy 



Corps of Engineers 



Department of Commerce (ESSA) 



Department of Transportation (Coast Guard). 



NASA 



Atomic Energy Commission 



Total 



the agencies concerned. This planning guide, which is still under study, is 

 an evolutionary step toward the identification of requirements and the de- 

 velopment of a Federal plan for providing a cohesive and efTective set of en- 

 vironmental predictive services. MAREP addresses not only the technical 

 factors involved — the physical, biological, and hydrodynamic states of the 

 ocean and atmosphere — but also the identification of existing marine en- 

 vironmental prediction activities; and a preliminary statement of current 

 and future user requirements. Considerable study and refinement of require- 

 ments must take place before actual program planning can commence. The 

 benefits and alternative methods of satisfying high-priority requirements 

 must still be identified and evaluated. Nevertheless, MAREP can serve as a 

 basis for such activity in this important area. 



The Department of Commerce was assigned lead agency responsibility 

 for civil marine environmental observation and prediction activities, and 

 submitted an implementation plan which included these major points: 



1. The Department of Commerce (ESSA) would serve as lead agency 

 for Federal marine environmental prediction activities, excluding the De- 

 partment of Defense activities which involve military security or which are 

 of uniquely military concern. 



2. The Administrator of ESSA would serve as Federal coordinator for 

 MAREP, with staff to be provided by the Office of the ESSA Assistant 

 Administrator for Environmental Systems. 



3. To assist the Federal coordinator in carrying out his responsibility, an 

 Interagency Committee for Marine Environmental Prediction (ICMAREP) 

 would be established with Chairman and Executive Secretary to be pro- 

 vided by ESSA's Office of Environmental Systems. 



4. The Federal coordinator would report to the Marine Sciences Council's 

 Committee for Policy Review for policy guidance, review and validation 

 of proposed plans, and the resolution of difTerences which might arise. 



This plan was considered and approved by the Council's Committee for 

 Policy Review in December 1969. 



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