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(h) Continue a policy of expanding assistance and support to existing civilian 

 laboratories and universities engaged in basic oceanographic research, foster the 

 establishment and growth of new civilian laboratories for applied oceanographic 

 research needed by the Navy. In the designation of new laboratories to re- 

 ceive Navy assistance consideration shall be given to geographic location with 

 reference to the oceans, with the object of maintaining a balanced program 

 of research in and adjacent to the seas and oceans bordering the United States, 

 (i) Request and obtain cooperation from other governmental departments 

 and agencies having an interest in the marine sciences, and to cooperate with 

 the several States, with educational institutions, laboratories, and other public 

 and private organizations and persons who may be of assistance. 



Sec. 14. It is necessary in order to carry out the policies of S. Res. 136, 

 Eighty-sixth Congress, of this Act and of the Navy's long-range program for 

 oceanographic research known at TENOC to have the Department of the Navy 

 carry out, under laws relating to such Department, 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 authorized to be appropriated to the Department of the Navy, 

 during the ten-year period beginning with July 1 of the first fiscal year follow- 

 ing approval of this Act by the President, such sums as are necessary — 



for the construction of nine one thousand two hundred to one thousand 

 five hundred-ton displacement research ships : Provided, however, That not 

 more than two of these ships shall be built the first year of the program ; 

 two in the second year ; one in the third year ; two in the fourth year, and 

 one in succeeding years of the program ; 



for the construction of four two thousand to three thousand-ton displace- 

 ment research ships : Provided, however. That not more than one such ship 

 shall be built in any one year of the ten-year program ; 



for the construction of two survey ships of approximately five hundred- 

 ton displacement ; 



for the construction of five survey ships of one thousand two hundred to 

 one thousand five hundred-tons displacement : Provided, however. That not 

 more than two of these survey ships shall be built in any one year ; 



for the construction of three survey ships of two thousand tons 

 displacement ; 



for the construction of one research ship of three hundred-tons displace- 

 ment; 



for operations of basic research ships in excess of present operating costs 

 for such ship operations : Provided, however. That the operating costs of 

 new one thousand two hundred to one thousand five hundred-ton research 

 ships not exceed $420,000 each per annun ; that that of the two thousand to 

 three thousand-ton ships not exceed $700,000 each per annum, and that of 

 the five hundred-ton ships not exceed $2.50.000 each per annum ; 

 for construction of new shore facilities for basic research ; 

 for basic research operations other than ships ; 

 for construction of new shore facilities for survey work ; 

 for engineering needs for ocean exploration and research which may in- 

 elude bathyscaphs and other manned submevsibles to be used for research, 

 manned and unmanned buoys, icebreakers and submarines modified or con- 

 verted for scientific use, acoustic telemetering devices, current meters, di- 

 rect density measuring devices, cameras and underwater television, seismic 

 equipment, turbulence measuring devices, biological sampling devices, pre- 

 cision salinometers, precision echo sounders, towed temperature recorders, 

 magnetometers and other instruments and laboratory equipment for ocean- 

 ographic research ; and 



for establishing a program of scholarships for selected students as au- 

 thorized in section 13(f) of this Act: Provided, hotvever, That costs to the 

 Department of the Navy of these fellowships not exceed $300,000 per 

 annum. 



