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3. Obtain and install on such Coast Guard vessels as the Secretary 

 may designate such equipment or instruments as may be required for 

 oceanographic research authorized under this section. 



4. Provide such faciHties or personnel as may be required for 

 analysis of oceanographic data collected and transmitted by the 

 Coast Guard. 



5. Encourage and assist selected officers and employees of the 

 Coast Guard to enroll in and pursue formal courses in oceanography. 



Committee amendment to section 17 



Page 49, line 21, after the word "Act", insert a comma and the 

 words "to carry out". This is a perfecting amendment to correct 

 an omission in the original printed bill. 



SECTION 18 



Appropriations would be authorized in this section in such sums as 

 are necessary for the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out the duties, 

 functions, and responsibilities to be authorized by section 17 of this 

 bill, with a proviso that expenditures for instruments and equipment 

 on Coast Guard ships and towers installed for oceanographic research 

 not exceed $82,500 for each ship or tower during the 10-year program. 



Committee amendment to section 18 

 None. 



Smithsonian Institution, Museum of Natural History 



Section 1 9 would authorize the Secretarj^ of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, in order to preserve, classify, and study marine, coastal, and 

 Great Lakes organisms collected during the 10-year program of hydro- 

 biological research, to — 



1. Construct additional facilities for the purposes authorized in 

 this section. 



2. Establish a program for the recruitment, training, and placement 

 of taxonomists in such number as may be required to classif}- fishes, 

 marine invertebrates, and other marine organisms collected during the 

 10-year program. 



3. Request and obtain cooperation from and cooperate with other 

 Government departments and agencies having a direct interest in the 

 preservation, study, and classification of marine organisms, and 

 cooperate with the several States, educational institutions, laborator- 

 ies, museums, and other public and private organizations and persons 

 who may be of assistance in this field of marine science. 



4. Make grants of funds to qualified scientists, institutions, lab- 

 oratories, or museums, such grants to be used for taxonomy relating 

 to marine organisms. 



Committee amendments to section 19. 

 None. 



SECTION 20 



Section 20 would authorize appropriations in such sums as may be 

 necessary to carry out the activities authorized in section 19. 



