gal, regulatory, enforcement, and advisory institutions and meas- 
ures. 
3. Describe, predict, and develop capabilities for modifying the 
environment. 
4, Initiate, support, and encourage programs of education, 
training, and research and provide technical services and facilities 
for relevant activities in science and technology. 
Today, about 20 Federal agencies are concerned with ocean affairs. 
Each plays some role in one or more of the above functions, and all 
four are carried out to some degree at the Federal level. 
It is obvious from a review of present agencies’ activities, however, 
that only the last two functions are to any degree well developed and 
coordinated across agency lines. The first two functions, articulating 
national ocean policy and fostering exploration and use of the seas, 
are greatly in need of systematic development and implementation by 
a more centralized authority; and all four would benefit from it. 
10.3. PRESENT ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE 
Support of oceanography as broadly defined in the United States is 
shared by a large number of agencies. Table 10.1 lists the contribu- 
tions of various agencies to the National Oceanographic Program as 
defined by the Interagency Committee on Oceanography. As has been 
discussed in section 7, the National Oceanographic Program does not 
include all oceanographic activities of the Federal Government ; table 
10.1 does, however, reflect the relative contribution of various agencies 
TABLE 10.1—National Oceanographic Program budget, fiscal year 1965-67 
{In millions] 
Actual, Estimated, | President’s 
Agency fiscal year fiscal year budget, 
1965 1966 fiscal year 
1967 
Defenses ss aes 2 a a ea ae ee ee 98.0 80.5 113.5 
Commerce-25"* sista a ese eee 20.1 tS. 16.4 
Interior Mass st ees te 20.2 19.5 19.4 
National Science Foundation - - -- --_-- 44.0 43.2 43.0 
Atomic Energy Commission - - - -- ---- 6.0 11.6 13.5 
Health, Education, and Welfare___--- 5.2 6.3 19.7 
IRreasury.855_0 22S SU eee oe 2.0 251 2.3 
Smithsonian Institution______------- 9 $25 1.6 
StateLe. 2 eo aa oe eee ees ae 4 .5 .9 
Totalvs2: oa ee ae aes 196.8 178.3 219.9 
1 Includes $3.8 million for the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration which was transferred to 
the Department of the Interior on May 10, 1966. 
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