100 ADVANCEMENT OF MARINE SCIENCES 



CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW 



In compliance with subsection 4 of rule XXIX of the Standing 

 Rules of the Senate, changes in existing law made by the bill are 

 shown as follows (existing law proposed to be omitted is enclosed in 

 black brackets, new matter is printed in italic, and existing law in 

 which no change is proposed is shown in roman) : 



National Science Foundation 



(42 U.S.C. 186G; 64 Stat. 152) 



Sec. 7. (a) Until otherwise provided by the Board there shall be 

 within the Foundation the following divisions : 



(1) A Division of Medical Research; 



(2) A Division of Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering 

 Sciences ; 



(3) A Division of Biological Sciences ; [andj 



(4) A Division of Marine Sciences; and 



[4] (5) A Division of Scientific Personnel and Education, which 

 shall be concerned with programs of the Foundation relating to the 

 granting of scholarships and graduate fellowships in the mathematical, 

 physical, medical, biological, engineering, and other sciences. 



(b) There shall also be within the Foundation such other divisions 

 as the Board may, from time to time, deem necessary. 



(42 U.S.C. 1867; 64 Stat. 152) 



Sec. 8. (a) There shall be a committee for each division of the 

 Foundation, (b) Each divisional committee shall be appointed by 

 the Board and shah consist of not less than five persons who may be 

 members or nonmembers of the [Board. J Board; Provided that the 

 divisional committee of the Division of Mariiie Sciences shall include 

 among its tnembership a representative from the Office of Naval Research, 

 the Hydrographic Office, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Bureau of 

 Commercial Fisheries, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Lnited States 

 Coast Guard, the Public Health Service, the United States Weather 

 Bureau, the Beach Erosion Board of the United States Corps of Engi- 

 neers, and at least six scientists selected on a basis of competence from 

 universities and other non-Federal institutions, agencies, or industry and 

 designated by the National Academy of Sciences and National Research 

 Coujicil to serve on this committee. 



(c) The terms of members of each divisional committee shall be 

 two years. Each divisional committee shall annually elect its own 

 chairman from among its own members and shall prescribe its own 

 rules of procedure subject to sucli restrictions as may be prescribed 

 by the Board, (d) Each divisional committee shall make recom- 

 mendations to, and advise and consult with, the Board and the 

 Director with respect to matters relating to the program of its division. 



