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structure, such ecosystems, or affect the use 

 of components of such ecosystems for 

 subsistence purposes; and 



(I) such other information, analyses, or 



recommendations as the Academy believes 

 necessary to provide for environmentally sound 

 conservation and management of marine 

 ecosystems and their component parts. 



(3) The Secretaries shall request that the National 

 Academy of Sciences submit a final report containing the 

 results of its review to the Secretaries not later than 24 

 months after enactment. The Secretaries shall transmit copies 

 of the report to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, 

 and Transportation and the House Committee on Merchant Marine 

 and Fisheries, together with such comments as the Secretaries 

 and the Marine Mammal Commission deem appropriate, not later 

 than 90 days after it is submitted by the National Academy of 

 Sciences. 



(4) Of the funds authorized to be appropriated to the 

 Secretary by this section, such amounts as are required shall 

 be available to carry out this subsection. 



(c) (1) The Secretaries of Commerce and the Interior, in 

 consultation with the Marine Mammal Commission, shall, 

 commencing within 180 days of enactment, undertake a long-term 



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