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lectiou of erroneous payments made to or on behalf of a Commission employee, 

 and regulations of said Administrator for the administrative control of funds 

 (31 U.S.C. 665(g)) shall apply to appropriations of the Commission: And pro- 

 vided further, That the Commission shall not be required to prescribe such 

 regulations. 



(g) The Commission is authorized to secure directly from any executive 

 department, agency, or independent instrumentality of the Government any in- 

 formation it deems necessary to carry out its functions under this Act ; and 

 each such department, agency, and instrumentality is authorized to cooperate 

 with the Commission and. to the extent permitted by law, to furnish such in- 

 formation to the Commission, upon request made by the Chairman. 



(h) The Commission shall submit to the President, via the Council, and to 

 the Congress not later than eighteen months after the establishment of the 

 Commission as provided in subsection (a) of this section, a final report of its 

 findings and recommendations. The Commission shall cease to exist thirty days 

 after it has submitted its final report. 



INTERNATIONAL COOPEKATION 



Sec. G. The Council, under the foreign policy guidance of the President and 

 as he may request, shall coordinate a program of international cooperation in 

 work done pursuant to this Act, pursuant to agreements made by the President 

 with the advice and consent of the Senate. 



Sec. 7. (a) The President shall transmit to the Congress in January of each 

 year a report, which shall include (1) a comprehensive description of the activ- 

 ities and the accomplishments of all agencies and departments of the United 

 States in the field of marine science during the preceding fiscal year, and (2) an 

 evaluation of such activities and accomplishments in terms of the objectives set 

 forth pursuant to this Act : 



(b) Reports made under this section shall contain such recommendations 

 for legislation as the President may consider necessary or desirable for the 

 attainment of the objectives of this Act, and shall contain an estimate of fund- 

 ing requirements of each agency and department of the United States for ma- 

 rine science activities during the succeeding fiscal year. 



DEFINITIONS 



Sec. 8. For the purposes of this Act the term "marine science" shall be deemed 

 to apply to oceanographic and scientific endeavors and disciplines, and engineer- 

 ing and technology in and with relation to the marine environment ; and the term 

 "marine environment" shall be deemed to include (a) the oceans, (b) the Con- 

 tinental Shelf of the United States, (c) the Great Lakes, (d) seabed and subsoil 

 of the submarine areas adjacent to the coasts of the United States to the depth 

 of two hundred meters, or beyond that limit, to where the depths of the super- 

 jacent waters admit of the exploitation of the natural resources of such areas. ( e) 

 the seabed and subsoil of similar submarine areas adjacent to the coasts of 

 Islands which comprise United States territory, and (f ) the resources thereof. 



AUTHORIZATION 



Sec. 9. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 

 necessary to carry out this Act, but sums appropriated for any one fiscal year 

 shall not exceed $1,500,000. 



Approved June 17, 1966. 



