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storm drain projects, and flood control work, the general 

 supply of littoral material to our beaches is gradually but 

 surel}^ being denied. We must know where we are going in 

 this respect. What will happen when the sources are seri- 

 oush^ curtailed? * * * 



We bring this to your attention merely to emphasize what 

 far-reaching effects that stepped-up research programs will 

 have on the daily existence of the people of the United States 

 and of the world, now and in the future. 



Amendments to section 16 



Page 47, line 14, following the word "institutions" insert the words 

 "or industrial organizations". The purpose of this amendment is to 

 broaden the area in which the Secretary of the Army may contract 

 for research and studies authorized in section 15 of this act. 



Department of the Treasury, U.S. Coast Guard 



Section 17 would amend title 14 of the United States Code to include 

 among the functions and responsibilities of the U.S. Coast Guard 

 that of conducting oceanographic research in and beneath any acces- 

 sible portions of the oceans, seas, gulf, and bays, including mter- 

 national waters. 



As stated earlier in this report, the Coast Guard is presently pre- 

 cluded by statute from undertaking such research except in connection 

 with the International Ice Patrol. 



Also stated earlier in this report are the desires of the President 

 of the United States, departments of the Federal Government, the 

 Committee on Oceanography, and the Coast Guard itself that the 

 present statutory restriction be removed. 



Benefits which are anticipated will accrue from removal of this 

 restriction likewise are stated earlier in this report. 



Section 17 would authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to under- 

 take, through the U.S. Coast Guard, and without regard to previous 

 statutory limitations, a 10-year program of oceanographic research 

 which would include the following activities: 



1. Conduct, in cooperation with Government agencies, including 

 agencies of friendly governments requesting and reciprocating such 

 cooperation, bathythermography observations, sonic soundings, 

 sampHngs of strontium 90, carbon 14, air pollution, sea water, and 

 plankton; studies of marine borers and fouling organisms, and such 

 other oceanographic research as, in the opinion of the Secretary and 

 the Division of Marine Sciences of the National Science Foundation, 

 will advance the marine sciences in the United States. 



2. Expand, in pursuance of functions of the Department under 

 this act, or in cooperation mth other Government agencies, institu- 

 tions and scientific orgasnizations, research conducted on or from 

 weather ships and other station vessels operated b}" the Coast Guard, 

 offshore towers, and from such large oceangoing Coast Guard vessels, 

 as the Secretary, in consultation with other Government agencies, 

 may find adaptable to the oceanographic program and does not di- 

 minish the abihty of the Coast Guard, or its officers and crews, 

 to perform that agency's other missions. 



