298 



Interrogation, Recording, and Location System 

 (IRLS) 193 



IOC (see Intergovernmental Oceanographie Com- 

 mission). 



IRLS (see Interrogation. Recording, and Location 

 System ) . 



J 



Japan : 



Cooperation with U.S. in fislieries management, 



104, 107-109 

 Offshore coal mining, 132 

 JOIDES deep sea drilling project, 123, 172 



L 



Lakes Survey, United States : 



Participation in NOAA organization, 232, 235 



Present responsibilities, 241 



Proposed responsibilities. 241, 242 

 Lamont Geological Obser\-atory ; 



South Atlantic .sediment studies, 173 



Status, 25 

 Land and Water Conser\-ation Fund : 



Commission recommendation : utilization for wet- 

 land acquisition, 60 



Land acquisition funds, 80, 81 

 Large Stable Ocean Platform Project, 38 

 Latin America marine fi.shery disputes, 109-111, 144 



M 



Manned ocean habitats : 



Commission recommendation : advanced deep 

 ocean stations, 178 



Cost estimates, 206 



Future capabilities, 177, 178 

 Mapping and charting : 



Agency responsibilities and industry role, 209, 210 



Bathymetric and geophysical characteristics of 

 the continental .shelf, 210, 211 



Commission recommendations : 



General ocean mapping program, 210 

 Mapping of bathymetry and geophysics of U.S. 



waters and continental shelves, 211 

 Nautical charting activities acceleration, 212 

 Survey equipment development, 213 



Cost estimates, 224 



Nautical charting surveys, 211, 212 



Survey technology needs, 212, 213 



Terminology, 209 

 Marine activities : 



Commission recommendation : Federal organiza- 

 tion, 227-230 



Congressional oversight, 247, 249 



Federal agencies currently associated with marine 

 science, chart, 228 



National program need, 1, 4, 17 



National significance, 19 



Need for reorganization, 17-19, 247, 249 



Overseeing the national program, 244, 245 



Proposed operational planning and coordination 



of a Federal program, 244, 245 

 Marine Council (.see National Council on Marine 



Resources and Engineering Development). 

 Marine ecology : 

 Aquaculture contributions, 115 

 Beneficial and detrimental modifications, 198 

 Commission recommendation : prediction capabili- 

 ties development, 197 

 Definition, 266 



Poisonous marine organisms, 120 

 Prediction capabilities, 197 

 Marine environmental monitoring and prediction 



sen'ices ( see also National Environmental 



Monitoring and Prediction System). 

 Federal funding catagories, 183 

 Limiting factors, 181, 182 

 Products of the present system, 183, 184 

 Systems operations, 182, 183 

 Marine geology : 

 Areas of concentration, 141 

 Earth's crust research and ocean resources 



survey, 172 

 Need for geological survey programs, 139-141 

 Profile of the continents and oceans, 140 

 Theory of the continental drift, map, 172 

 Marine instruments : 

 Commission recommendation : calibration and 



testing program, 223 

 Testing and calibration standards, 221, 223 

 Marine resources (see also Aquaculture; Fisheries; 



Fresh water resources ; Industry ; Natural gas ; 



Ocean mining ; Petroleum ) . 

 Commission recommendations : 



Defining areas lieyond continental .shelf. 147 



Goverrunent role in support of resource develop- 

 ment, 157 



Industrial capital sources and requirements. I.'i9. 

 160 



Industry role in support of resource develop- 

 ment, 157, 158 



Legal and regulatory framework for safeguard- 

 ing industrial investment, 160 



Offshore oil leasing and regulation, 124-127 



I'rogram costs, 166, 167 

 Dock-side value of resources, 158 

 Domestic marine resource-based industry, present 



status, chart, 159 

 Drugs. 12. 119-121 



