is lacking. Programs must either be developed or accelerated in: (a) 

 the toxicity to organisms of heavy metals; (b) the effects of chlorine 

 and other anti-fouling agents contained in nuclear power plant 

 effluents; (c) the effects on organisms from passage through the 

 condensers of the reactors and the resultant effects on populations of 

 organisms in the contiguous area; and (d) new designs for cooling 

 water intake structures that will reduce the entrapment of fish and 

 other organisms. The beneficial uses of waste heat will require 

 increasing scrutiny. 



The AEC marine sciences program will continue to stress the 

 understanding of basic processes in the ocean related to its mission. 

 However, recently initiated programs on effects of nuclear power 

 plant operations and on the fate and transport of plutonium and 

 transplutonium radionuclides will be intensified. 



National Aeronautics and Space Administration 



The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 

 through its Office of Applications, supports research and 

 development programs concerned with the establishment of the 

 feasibility and the demonstration of the utility of applying aerospace 

 technology in practical ways that will prove beneficial to our Nation 

 and to all mankind. NASA's oceanography-related activities are 

 elements of some of these programs. These activities are primarily 

 concerned with finding ways that remote sensing techniques, data 

 relay techniques, and drifting buoy position location techniques can 

 be combined with appropriate aerospace technology to satisfy the 

 needs of Federal, State, and regional agencies for improved coastal- 

 zone or open-ocean data acquisition and data collection systems. 



As NASA has no operational role or mission in the discipline area 

 of oceanography, NASA maintains a close cooperative working 

 relationship with those Federal agencies that do have such roles and 

 missions to insure that NASA's oceanographic efforts are 

 responsive to their needs. NASA not only looks to these agencies to 

 define their requirements for data, but also seeks their active 

 participation in the planning and conduct of experiments in the field. 

 NASA depends heavily on other agencies to provide the 

 oceanographic data obtained by conventional techniques that are 

 required by NASA to ascertain how well the remote sensor data 

 obtained during aircraft or earth-orbiting spacecraft flights do 

 correlate with the oceanographic parameters, processes, or 

 phenomena being observed, measured, or monitored from space. 



NASA's oceanographic research activities fall into three 

 categories: (1) remote sensor design, development, and validation 

 testing; (2) the development of computer software for handling the 

 processing and formatting of remote-sensor-derived oceanographic 

 data so as to facilitate the interpretation and use of the data by the 

 other agencies; (3) and the design, development, and evaluation 



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