Commissions, support oceanographic fisheries programs. In fiscal 
year 1967 the State Department budgeted about $0.5 million. 
Atomic Energy Commission 
Oceanographic work of the AEC is primarily concerned with prob- 
lems of dispersal of radioactive elements in oceans. This includes 
investigations of biological uptake of radioactive elements, sedimenta- 
tion and chemical interaction, and ocean circulation and mixing. In 
fiscal year 1967 the AEC budgeted $4.6 million for research from a 
total of $13.5 million. 
National Science Foundation 
By means of grants and contracts of $43 million in fiscal year 1967, 
NSF supports basic investigations in biological and physical ocean- 
ography at universities and research institutions. Fiscal year 1967 
programs involve $6.7 million for biological oceanography, $8.0 mil- 
lion for physical oceanography and $2.3 million for Arctic and Ant- 
arctic programs. The ocean-sediments coring program is listed for 
$1.3 million and MOHOLE for $19.7 million. 
Smithsonian Institution 
The Smithsonian Institution carries out investigations on marine 
populations and distribution of organisms with emphasis on system- 
atics, and on sediments in the ocean. The total program for fiscal 
year 1967 is $1.6 million. 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
NASA has no program in oceanography listed in the reports of ICO. 
NASA has sponsored conferences on uses of satellites in ocean- 
ography and may be expected in the future to have substantial ocean- 
ographic interests. The agency obligated $900,000 in fiscal year 1966 
for a feasibility study of oceanography from space with the Navy 
acting as agent. 
Role of the Interagency Committee on Oceanography 
The Interagency Committee on Oceanography of the Federal Coun- 
cil for Science and Technology has been charged with the task of 
developing each year a “national oceanographic program.” It was to 
do this by reviewing current activities and planned programs of in- 
dividual agencies, engaging in coordinative budget planning and con- 
sidering special problems that arise in implementing the national pro- 
gram, recommending solutions thereto. In fact one of the initial aims 
and goals of ICO was to introduce into a federally sponsored program 
more facilities, ships and manpower to provide a broad base on which 
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