S FEDERAL LEGISLATION FOR OCEANOGRAPITi', 19 56-65 



March 16, 1965. Hearings on S. 944 convened by Senate Commerce 

 Committee. 



March 17, 1965. House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs 

 discharged from further consideration of H.R. 5884 and bill re- 

 referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. 



March IS, 1965. H.R. 6457, introduced by Congressman Thomas L. 

 Ashley, provides for a comprehensive, long-range, and coordi- 

 nated national program in oceanography to be developed by a 

 National Oceanographic Council established in the Office of 

 Science and Technology. Functions of the Council are similar to 

 those in S. 944; membership of the Council is at sub-Cabinet 

 level, with the Chairman to be designated by the President from 

 the Council members. 



March 18, 1965. H.R. 6512, introduced by Congressman James G. 

 Fulton, provides for expanded research in the oceans and the 

 Great Lakes, to establish a National Oceanographic Council, 

 and for other purposes. (Identical to S. 944, 89th Congress.) 



April 6, 1965. Senator Warren G. Magnuson received resolution 

 adopted by State of Alaska urging congressional enactment of S. 

 944. 



April 8, 1965. H.R. 7301, introduced by Congressman Richard 

 Hanna, to provide for expanded research in the oceans and the 

 Great Lakes, to establish a National Ocetinographic Council, and 

 for other purposes. (Identical to S. 944.) 



April 8, 1965. H.R. 7320, introduced by Congressman Hastings 

 Keith, to exempt oceanographic research vessels from the applica- 

 tion of certain vessel-inspection laws, and for other purposes. 



April 12, 1965. Hearings on S. 944 convened by Senate Commerce 

 Committee. 



April 13, 1965. S. 1778, introduced by Senator Warren G. Magnuson, 

 to establish the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries and the Bureau 

 of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife as separate services in the Depart- 

 ment of the Interior and to abolish the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

 Service. 



April 18, 1965. White House releases Presidential announcement to 

 develop small nuclear-propelled oceanographic submarine with 

 responsibility assigned to Navy Special Projects Office (that con- 

 currently is supporting a deep submergence search and research 

 project in aftermath of Thresher loss). 



April 29, 1965. S, 627 passed Senate without amendment; Senate 

 Report 168. 



May 3, 1965. H.R. 7798, introduced by Congressman J. Oliva Huot, 

 to provide for expanded research in the oceans and the Great 

 Lakes, to establish a National Oceanographic Council, and for 

 other purposes. (Identical to S. 944, 89th Congress.) 



May 3, 1965. S. 627 referred to House Merchant Marine and Fisheries 

 Committee. 



May U-6, 1965. Hearings on H.R. 3419 and H.R. 5175 convened by 

 House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. 



May 4, 1965. H.R. 7849, introduced by Congressman Olin E. Teague, 

 to provide for the development of ocean resources in the oceans 

 and the Great Lakes, to establish a National Oceanographic 

 Council, and for other purposes. (Generally combines provisions 

 of S. 944 and S. 1091.) 



