(h) The Commission shall submit to the President, via the Council, 
and to the Congress not later than eighteen months after the establish- 
ment 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 COOPERATION 
Sec. 6. The Council, under the foreign policy guidance of the 
President and as he may request, shall coordinate a program of inter- 
national cooperation in work done pursuant to this Act, pursuant to 
agreements made by the President with the advice and consent of the 
Senate. 
REPORTS 
Sec. 7 (a) The President shall transmit to the Congress in Jan- 
uary of each year a report, which shall include (1) a comprehensive 
description of the activities and the accomplishment 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 activ- 
ities and accomplishments in terms of the objectives set forth pursuant 
to this Act. 
(b) Reports made under this section shall contain such recommen- 
dations for legislation as the President may consider necessary or desir- 
able for the attainment of the objectives of this Act, and shall contain 
an estimate of funding requirements of each agency and department 
of the United States for marine 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 engineering 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 Continental 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 superjacent 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. 
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