70 ADVANCEMENT OP MARINE SCIENCES 



The sum of $5 million would be authorized to carry out the educa- 

 tional fellowship and training programs, with the provision that not 

 more than S500,000 be expended for this purpose in any one year. 



For studies or research relating to the discovery or extraction of 

 medically or pharmacologically important substances from the 

 marine environment or its organisms such sums as are necessary would 

 be authorized. 



Section 10 also authorizes such sums as are necessary to double, 

 within the 10-year life of the program, research and studies of 

 estuarine, inshore, and Great Lakes waters with relation to theu' use for 

 municipal, industrial, and recreational water supplies; disposal of 

 harmful wastes, and with relation to public health aspects of the 

 fisheries resources within them. 

 Committee amendment to section 10 



Page 30, line 20, strike subsection (d), which has been inserted as 

 subsection (e) in section 9. This subsection, which relates to informa- 

 tion, uses, products, processes, patents, and other developments 

 resulting from research authorized in section 9, was misplaced in the 

 original text of S. 901. 



Atomic Energy Commission 



SECTION 11 



For the purpose of determining the effects of radioactive contami- 

 nation upon the oceans and life within the oceans, their estuaries, 

 inshore waters, and the Great Lakes, section 11 authorizes the Atomic 

 Energy Commission to conduct an intensive 10-year program which 

 shall include: 



1. Control and monitoring or radioactive waste disposal in the 

 marine environment. 



2. Studies of the circulation and mixing processes which affect the 

 dispersion of introduced contaminants in coastal and estuarine waters, 

 the Great Lakes, and the open ocean. 



3. Research on the inorganic transfer of radioactive elements from 

 sea water to sediments. 



4. Investigations of the effect of radioactive elements on Uving 

 organisms in the oceans, coastal waters, estuaries, and the Great 

 Lakes. 



5. Studies of the genetic effects of radiation on such organisms. 

 This section would also provide that with the exception of regulating 



and monitoring the introduction of radioactive material in the ocean 

 the Atomic Energy Commission may carry out the above activities 

 through contracts or grants to States and State agencies, institutions 

 or laboratories equipped to undertake such studies. 



Aspects of the program relating to regulating and monitoring the 

 introduction of radioactive material in the ocean, however, shall be 

 carried out by the Coast and Geodetic Survey or the Public Health 

 Service, or both, with funds made available by the Atomic Energy 

 Commission. 



Section 11, except for one perfecting amendment which will be 

 discussed later, is identical to a similarly numbered section in S. 2692, 

 86th Congress, the bill to authorize a lO-j^ear oceanographic research 

 program which was introduced in the 86th Congress, approved by this 

 committee, and passed by the Senate without dissent. 



