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Table 25. — Comparison of recommendations for Federal support of oceanography, 



fiscal year 1961 



[In millions of dollars] 



Agency 



Navy * 



Commerce 



Interior 



Health, Education, and Welfare 

 National Science Foundation... 

 Atomic Energy Commission 



Total 



86.09 



120. 228 



1 Based on 1958 dollars. 



2 From Table 17. 



3 Source: Supplementary data provided by Assistant Secretary of the Navy James Wakelin to House 

 Committee on Science and Astronautics, "Frontiers in Oceanic Research," op. cit. p. 53. 



< Not including military oceanography. 



Table 26. — Comparison of NASCO and ICO budget proposals for Federal sponsor- 

 ship during the next 10 years 



[In millions of dollars] 



NASCO 1 2 



ICO 3 



Oceanographic research and ship operators 



Ocean surveys and ship operators _ 



Construction of new^ ships and facilities 



Number of new ships -- 



Total estimated cost 



Annual cost after 1969 



370.7 



160.0 



346.5 



(70) 



490 

 144 

 405 

 (78) 



867.2 

 68.0 



1,039 



85 



1 Based on "1958" dollars. 



2 Source: NASCO Report, ch. 1, various tables as revised; see Table 16 in this report. 



3 Source: Testimony by Assistant Secretary Wakelin — "Frontiers in Oceanic Research," op. cit., pp. 

 43-53. 



Comparisons between the NASCO proposals and those of the Inter- 

 agency Committee on Oceanography are set forth in Tables 25 and 26. 

 These show the relative budgets proposed for fiscal year 1961, and 

 totals proposed for the ten-year interval 1960-69. However, no data 

 were available from the ICO on how this ten-year budget was broken 

 down on a year-by-year basis for comparison with similar data 

 presented. 



It is clear from the comparisons tliat the two are in agi-eement, both 

 in principle and detail. Conceding the fact of inflation, the NASCO 

 estimates based on 1958 dollars would certainly be revised upward to 

 make them consistent w4th (presumably) ICO 1960 dollars. More- 

 over, the NASCO Committee everywhere contended that they had 

 taken the most conservative viewpoint when formulating budgets. 



It might thus be concluded that for present purposes of planning, the 

 ICO overall numbers are the more realistic. Thus, all of the fiscal details 

 compiled by NASCO and presented in earlier tables could be revised up- 

 ward in almost exact proportion, roughly 15 percent. 



