should make an effort to develop suitable vehicles for reporting 

 and publicizing technology developed in IDOE projects, and 

 should be more flexible in considering research proposals which 

 include landward aspects of the oceanic processes being studied 

 in ongoing IDOE projects. Such actions woulcT do much to en- 

 hance and complement ongoing IDOE research, and would repre- 

 sent steps toward implementing the recommendations outlined 

 above. 



New projects should continue to be taken on as the Decade 

 progresses. As long as the IDOE remains level funded, new 

 projects can be taken on only to the extent that ongoing projects 

 are completed or scaled down. We recognize, the difficulties, but 

 we urge the IDOE Office to make every effort to continue to 

 be open to new initiatives arising within the sciefitific com- 

 munity. 



It should be possible for NSF to take advantage of growing 

 interest in some ongoing projects on the part of other Federal 

 agencies. These are changing times, marked by increased aware- 

 ness of world dependence on fisheries for food, on offshore oil 

 and gas for energy, and on marine minerals for industry, by the 

 growing realization that coastal and near-shore areas are threat- 

 ened by industrial and municipal wastes, and especially by the 

 increased likelihood of world-wide acceptance of a 200-mile 

 extended resource zone under coastal nation jurisdiction. In this 

 setting, mission agencies such as ERDA and EPA may well find 

 themselves becoming interested in aspects of marine research that 

 did not previously concern them. As the situation changes, and 

 particular projects appear to be relevant to the expanded missions 

 of these agencies, the possibilities of joint sponsorship should be 

 mutually explored. 



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