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graphic institutiona and laboratories and other sources, all weanogi-aphic data, 

 and prepare and disseminate such oceauojiraphic data for public use. 



(c) Initiate and carry out a program for the replacement, modernization and 

 enlargement in the number of oceangoing ships for use in ocean and coastal 

 surveys by the Coast and (ieodetic Survey. 



(d) Construct and operate a .sufficient number of Coast and Geodetic Survey 

 shore facilities to support effectively the vessels provided for under the pre- 

 ceding item (a), and provide instruments and equipment e.ssential for efficient 

 utilization of such shore facilities or survey ships. 



(e) Inaugurate in the Weather Bureau a comprehensive ten-year study of 

 the interchange of energy between the oceans and the atmosphere, and to pre- 

 pare, based on such study, climatological maps illustrating the balance of in- 

 coming and outgoing radiation and heat exchange between the oceans and the 

 atmosphere. The provisions of this sub.section (e) may be carried <mt by means 

 of contracts with public or private organizations, or by grants to scientific in- 

 stitutions carrying on such studies. 



(f) Require that the Maritime Administration construct ships of approxi- 

 mately five hundred tons and one thousand two hundred to one thousand five 

 hundred tons displacement .specifically designed for basic oceanographic re- 

 .search with due attention given to suitable arrangement of laboratory space and 

 living quarters for scientists, space and power for winches and other auxiliaries, 

 sea keeping and handling qualities at low speeds, quiet operation, efficient and 

 economical scientist-crew ratios, and operation in all kinds of weather, such 

 ship.s, when completed, to be made available, at the discretion of the Secretary, 

 to nonprofit oceanographic research centers, to other agencies of the Federal 

 Government, or, pursuant to negotiated contracts or grants, to State institutions 

 engaged to oceanographic research requiring oceangoing scientific ships, with 

 preference given to such institutions which have engaged in such research prior 

 to this Act. 



Sec. 8. It is necessary in order to carry out the policies of S. Res. 136, Eighty- 

 sixth Cimgress, and of this Act to have the Department of Commerce and its 

 Bureaus and OflBces carry out, under laws, as amended, relating to such Depart- 

 ment or such Bureaus and Offices, specified duties as part of the general program 

 for the development of the marine sciences in the United States. Appropriations 

 authorized in this section shall be in addition to other appropriations provided 

 for such Department to carry out its duties under law. There is hereby au- 

 thorized to be appropriated to the Department of Commerce and its Bureaus 

 and Offices, during the ten-year periixl beginning with July 1, of the first fiscal 

 year following approval of this Act by the President, the following sums : 



(a) The sum of $250,000 for capital outlay in the establishment of a National 

 Oceanographic Records Center. 



(b) Such sums as are necessary for operating expenses of a National Oceano- 

 graphic Records Center : Provided, however. That expenses for this purpose dur- 

 ing the first year not exceed $100,000, and that this amount shall not be increased 

 more than 10 per centum per annum in each of the subsequent years of this 

 program. 



(c) Such sums as are necessary for construction by or for the Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey of two survey ships of five hundred tons displacement, six 

 survey ships of one thousand two hundred to one thousand five hundred tons 

 displacement, and two survey ships of two thousand tons displacement or more. 



(d) Such sums as are necessary for operations of new Coast and Geodetic Sur- 

 vey survey ships authorized under this Act during the ten-year life of this 

 program — 



for construction of new shore facilities for pnK-essing and evaluating 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey data obtained through surveys and related re- 

 search conductetl from new oceangoing Coast and Geodetic Survey ships; 



for expanded oi>erations. excluding ship operations, of the Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey dtu'ing a ten-year peri<»d ; and 



for the establishment and oi)erations of a ten-year study of the inter- 

 change of energy between the cx-eans and the atmosphere. 



DEP.VRTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATIOX, AND WELFARE, OFFICE OF EDUCATION 



Sec. 9. The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare is authorized and 

 directed, with su<-h funds as may be appropriated or otherwise made available 

 to him. to undertake a ten-year program of obtaining new faculty in oceanog- 

 raphy and marine sciences as i)art of the general program for the development 



