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expenditures by the Atomic Energy Commission for this purpose not exceed 

 $938,000 per annum ; 



for studies of the genetic effects of atomic radiations on marine organisms: 

 Provided, however. That expenditures by the Atomic Energy Commission 

 for this purpose not exceed $100,000 per annum ; 



for field experiments in confined bodies of water utilizing radioisotopes: 

 Provided, however. That expenditures by the Atomic Energy Commission 

 for this purpose not exceed $100,000 per annum ; and 



for two major open-sea tests of radiological contamination at sea, its 

 effects on marine life, and its potential effects on humanity. 



DEPARTMENT OP THE NAVY 



Sec. 13. In order to carry out the policies of S. Res. 136, Eighty-sixth Con- 

 gress, of this Act and of the Navy's long-range program for oceanographic re- 

 search known as TENOC, the Secretary of the Navy is authorized and directed 

 to undertake a ten-year program of expanded basic oceanographic research and 

 hydrographic surveys as a part of the general program for the development of 

 the marine sciences in the United States. The Secretary is authorized and 

 directed with such funds as may be appropriated or otherwise made available 

 to him for purposes of this Act, to carry out the following activities : 



(a) Make grants of funds to scientists, research laboratories, or institutions 

 in furtherance of the purposes of this Act, such grants to be used for the pur- 

 chase of equipment, acquisition or improvement of facilities, employment of 

 scientists and personnel, and for other uses necessary to carry out the work 

 hereunder. 



(b) Initiate and carry out a ten-year program for the replacement, modern- 

 ization, and enlargement in the number of ships for use in basic research and 

 hydrographic surveys, and to supply, when available, ships designed for basic 

 research to nonprofit scientific institutions: Provided, That when ships are 

 supplied under this provision title to the ships shall remain with the United 

 States Government and the ships shall be reassigned or returned to Federal 

 operation upon termination of the grant or contract with the institution. 



(c) Construct and operate a sufficient number of shore facilities and labor- 

 atories to support effectively the expanded program of basic oceanographic 

 research and hydrographic surveys authorized for the Department of the Navy 

 to undertake under this Act. 



(d) Develop, construct, or acquire new or improved vehicles for ocean re- 

 search and exploration, including but not limited to bathyscaphs and other 

 manned submersibles, icebreakers and submarines converted for scientific use, 

 seismic equipment, turbulence measuring devices, precision echo sounders, 

 acoustic telemetering devices, and instruments for the study of the current 

 structure of the ocean, oceanic temperatures, bottom topography, sediments, 

 heat flow through the ocean bottom, sound transmission and velocities, ambient 

 noise, biological activity and specimens, and water samples for salinities, phos- 

 phates, oxygen, nitrates, and other chemical or elemental components of the 

 oceans. 



(e) Continue and expand the Navy's support of civilian oceanographic labor- 

 atories as proposed in project TENOC approved by the Chief of Naval Opera- 

 tions, and substantially similar to the recommendations made in the report of 

 the Committee on Oceanography of the National Academy of Sciences — ^Na- 

 tional Research Council. 



(f ) Establish with the National Science Foundation or the National Academy 

 of Sciences — National Research Council — a program of scholarships for selected 

 students beginning at the senior level in undergraduate school, and carrying 

 through with four years of graduate training and research in the marine 

 sciences: Provided, That the Department of the Navy may recommend to the 

 National Science Foundation the institutions qualified to participate in this 

 program. 



(g) Conduct a systematic and expanded program of three-dimensional ocean 

 surveys including measurements or studies of depths, salinity, temperature, 

 current velocity, wave motion, magnetism and biological activity. 



