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Committee that minimum immediate requii-ements for new marine 

 laboratory space exceed $33,500,000. 



The Committee on Oceanography has recommended that the 

 National Science Foundation supph^, through grants, the funds for 

 one-half of this portion of the facilities progi'am, and that the Office 

 of Naval Research, which assists certain institutions in acquiring new 

 laboratory- facilities, provide the remainder. 



On the basis of these reports and recommendations your committee 

 amended the amount authorized for construction by the National 

 Science Foundation of shore facilities for marine research to $16,750,- 

 000 to be expended during the life of the 10-year program. 



Page 10, line 14, insert following the word "fellowships" the words 

 and punctuation "training grants,". This subsection of section 4 re- 

 lates to the education and training program in marine sciences which 

 would be instituted by the National Science Foundation under the 

 provisions of S. 901. 



The bill proposes grants for fellowships and research apprentice- 

 ships to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows training to become 

 oceanographers. The Committee on Oceanography, reviewing its 

 previous recommendations, came to the conclusion that the designa- 

 tion "fellowships" was too limiting with respect to the proposed 

 education and trainmg program, and that it is subject to narrow 

 usage by both certain institutions and Federal agencies. 



Dr. Gordon Riley, of the Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory, 

 Yale University, proposed the addition of the term "training grants," 

 and this recommendation was accepted by your Committee. 



Page 10, Ime 15, strike the word "apprenticeships" following the 

 word "research" and substitute the word "assistantships". Use of 

 the word "apprenticeships" in this subsection was a typing or typo- 

 graphical error and the word originally intended to be used was 

 "assistantships". 



Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, Bureau of 

 Commercial Fisheries, and Bureau of Mines 



Section 5 of the bill would authorize and direct the Secretary of the 

 Interior to undertake certain activities, studies, and research as part 

 of the general lO-3'ear program for development of the marine sciences. 



The Department and its agencies have a primary responsibility to 

 conserve and develop resources in order to meet the requirements of 

 national security and an expanding economy. 



Several agencies within the Department, notably the Bm'eau of 

 Commercial Fisheries, Geological Survey, and Bureau of Mines, have 

 an actual or potential direct interest in the resources of the oceans 

 and the Great Lakes. 



These resources include marine fisheries, metalHc minerals, and 

 offshore deposits of liquid fuels. To realize increased benefits from 

 these resources an intensified program of ocean and Great Lakes re- 

 search is required, both basic and applied. 



Section 5 would authorize such a program, facilities to carry out 

 such a program, and studies designed to augment the benefits to the 

 Nation from increased utilization of the resom-ces of the oceans and 

 the Great Lakes. 



