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and the results of tlie investigiition would 

 still have to be i)ublished. 



• The United States could state that it will 

 consent to the conduct of any pi-oposed 

 foreign scientific investigation certified by 

 the Intergovernmental Oceanographic 

 Commission (IOC) as meeting the require- 

 ments of the Convention on the Continen- 

 tal Shelf. In performing this task, IOC 

 should be guided by the criteria set forth 

 in the Convention. 



• The United States might announce uni- 

 laterally that, upon proper notice, it will 

 consent to the conduct in its territorial 

 waters and exclusive fisheries zone of scien- 

 tific research (including the limited taking 

 of fish specimens) which is part of an in- 

 ternational cooperative project sponsored 

 or endorsed by the IOC, provided that it 

 may participate or be represented in the 

 research and that the scientists involved 

 agree to publish the results of the research' 

 and to make available upon request the 

 basic data acquired. 



The Commission also endorses the prin- 

 ciples which tlie United States has presented 

 for adoption by the United Nations General 

 Assembly to encourage international coop- 

 eration in the scientific investigation of the 

 bed and subsoil of the high seas beyond the 

 outer limits of the continental shelf. 



These principles would call upon all na- 

 tions to disseminate plans for and results 

 of such national scientific programs in a 

 timely fashion, to encourage their nationals 

 to follow similar practices concerning dis- 

 semination of such information, and to en- 

 courage personnel of different nations to co- 

 operate in such scientific activities. 



Program Costs 



Exploring and monitoring our global en- 

 vironment is an enormous task. Table 5-1 

 presents the incremental expenditures esti- 



mated by the Commission as necessary for 

 the programs recommended in this chapter. 

 Estimates for research and exploration ac- 

 tivities have been built on a growth assump- 

 tion of 15 per cent per year over the first 5 

 years, and 10 per cent per year in the second 

 5-year period. 



The Commission believes that Federal sup- 

 port of the Nation's major oceanographic in- 

 .stitutions will need to be sharply increased 

 during the next several years to enable their 

 full participation in the recommended pro- 

 grams. A basic need is to provide adequate 

 institutional suppoi-t to meet basic operating 

 expenses of the proposed University-Na- 

 tional Laboratories, which will have a key 

 role in research and exploration. The Com- 

 mission has not attempted to specify how 

 many laboratories should be brought within 

 this system ; for purposes of the funding esti- 

 mate, a dozen such laboratories have been 

 assumed. The capital costs for these labora- 

 tories are shown in Chapter 2. In this chapter 

 we have provided estimates for costs of op- 

 eration and maintenance and the laborator- 

 ies' research and exploration programs, as 

 shown under the a^jpropriate entries in Table 

 1. Tlie institutional support for these labora- 

 tories, to be provided by NOAA, would be 

 supplemented by funds for specific research 

 projects and programs provided by other 

 agencies as well. 



The new agency will assume responsibility 

 for a large number of existing Federal lab- 

 oratories which, as the Commission has 

 pointed out in Chapter 2, are inadequately 

 staffed and funded. To bring such laborato- 

 ries, as well as those of other Federal agen- 

 cies, to a level adequate to meet their role in 

 the total global exploration, monitoring, and 

 prediction program, increased funding is re- 

 quired as indicated in the table. 



The Commission has noted that the pres- 

 ent diversity of scientific institutions is good 



