The proposed Fiscal Year 1973 budget of $672 million represents an in- 

 crease of some $60 million over the Fiscal Year 1972 level of effort and of 

 about $150 million over the Fiscal Year 1970 budget. The portion of De- 

 partment of Defense effort reported under the category of national secu- 

 rity, once the largest single item, ranks third in Fiscal Year 1973, down from 

 $127 million in Fiscal Year 1970 to about $97 million in Fiscal Year 1973. 

 On the other hand, there have been increases in each of the other areas 

 of the Federal marine science activities with substantial gains over the 

 1970 program for transportation (195 percent), coastal zone development 

 (115 percent), nonliving resources (90 percent), oceanographic research 

 (66 percent), and fishery development (24 percent). The large increase in 

 transportation last year and in the 1973 program comes from a major 

 effort to strengthen the marine law enforcement activities of the U.S. Coast 

 Guard, particularly as they bear on preventive and punitive actions related 

 to marine environmental pollution and fisheries treaties. 



Fiscal summaries are presented in appendix A, by agency and major 

 purpose, in the format used in reports of previous years by the National 

 Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development. The scope 

 of Federal marine science activities of the several agencies is summarized 

 in appendix B. 



