Table A-3 Federal Ocean Program Detail, by Subpurpose and 

 Agency — Continued 



,^ . . f A Estimated by Fiscal Year 

 Department of Agency 



1975 1976 TQi 1977 



Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion: 3.0 8.1 2.4 9.2 



National Science Foundation (1.0) (0.0) (0.0) (0.0) 



Energy Research and Development Ad- 

 ministration (2.0) (8.1) (2.4) (9.2) 



National Centers and Facilities 15.9 15.2 3.4 16.0 



National Oceanographic Data Center (De- 

 partment of Commerce) 3.5 3.9 0.9 4.1 



National Climatic Center (Department 



of Commerce) 0.6 0.7 0.1 0.7 



Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center 



(Smithsonian Institution) 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.3 



Mediterranean Marine Sorting Center 



(Smithsonian Institution) 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 



National Oceanographic Instrumentation 



Center (Department of Commerce) 2.1 2.3 0.5 2.5 



Polar Icebreakers (Department of 



Transportation^) 7.6 7.0 1.8 7.4 



International Ice Patrol (Department 



of Transportation^) 1.5 i.o 0.0 1.0 



1 Transitional quarter 



2 The Department of Transportation (DOT) actual marine science budget, OS reported 

 in accordance with P.L. 89-454. The subtotals are as follows: FY1975, 15.2; FY1976, 17.7; 

 FY1977. 18.9. 



Commencing with this report, only these four categoreis and their totals should be 

 construed as the DOT marine science budget. Effective with the 1976 and subsequent an- 

 nual Federal Ocean Program reports, budgetary and narrative information reported by 

 DOT will reflect this modification. The information on the categories to be excluded is 

 provided in this year's report solely to reconcile the new budget format with the budget 

 tables published in previous years. This modification has been made in order that the 

 DOT marine science program, as a primary support for its own myriad missions and as a 

 secondary support for the needs of other agencies, is more clearly defined. 



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