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(3) To exchange or sell, on a cost reimbursable basis, such data, publica- 

 tions, or other information of the Center as the Council deems to be in 

 the public interest, and such exchanges or sales may be made with any 

 governmental or nongovernmental department, agency, or institution, or 

 with any other person (including foreign governmental departments, agen- 

 cies, and instrumentalities, and foreign persons ) . 

 Sec. 4. The Council shall establish primary standards of oceanographic 

 measurements, and such standards shall be the official standards of the United 

 States. 



Sec. 5. The Council shall establish a National Instrumentation Test and 

 Calibration Center. The functions of the National Instrumentation Test and 

 Calibration Center shall be — 



(1) To test, calibrate, and evaluate instrumentation concerned with the 

 physical, chemical, biological, and other measurements in the aquatic en- 

 vironment. 



(2) To test, calibrate, and evaluate such instrumentation on a cost re- 

 imbursable basis for any governmental or nongovernmental department, 

 agency or institution or for any other person (including foreign govern- 

 mental departments, agencies, and instrumentalities and foreign persons). 



Sec. 6. (a) The Council shall— 



(1) Develop long-range plans for research, development, studies, and 

 surveys of aquatic environments to the end that all of the purposes of this 

 Act can be more effectively carried out. 



(2) Coordinate the efforts of the departments, agencies, and instru- 

 mentalities of the Government of the United States to the end that the 

 greatest possible progress shall be made in carrying out the purposes of 

 this Act through the fullest utilization of existing facilities and personnel. 



(b) In carrying out its functions under this Act the Council is authorized — 



(1) to delegate any of its functions to the head of any department, 



agency, or instrumentality represented on the Council, and 



(2) to provide, on a cost reimbursable basis, and with the consent of 

 the head of the affected department, agency, or instrumentality, for the 

 fullest utilization of the facilities and personnel of departments, agencies, 

 and instrumentalities in carrying out the purpose of this Act. 



Sec. 7. The Council shall report annually during the month of January to 

 sCongress. Such report shall contain the following : 



(1) The general status of aquatic sciences. 



(2) The status of research, development, studies, and surveys conducted 

 (directly or indirectly) by the United States in furtherance of aquatic 

 sciences, together with application of such research, development, studies 

 and surveys. 



(3) A detailed analysis of the amounts proposed for appropriation by 

 Congress for the ensuing fiscal year for each of the departments, agencies, 

 and instrumentalities of the Government to carry out the purposes of this 

 Act. 



(4) Current and future plans and policies of the Federal Government 

 with respect to aquatic sciences. 



(5) Requests for such legislation as may be necessary to authorize the 

 construction of any new facilities and vessels which may be necessary to 

 carry out as rapidly as possible the purposes of this Act. 



Sec. 8. Whenever any vessel is supplied by the United States to any govern- 

 mental or nongovernmental department, agency, institution, or instrumentality, 

 or to any other person, in carrying out the purposes of this Act, title to such 

 vessel shall remain in the United States and shall be returned to the United 

 States upon completion or other termination of the purpose for which so supplied. 



Sec. 9. (a) In order to carry out the purposes of this Act the Secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution is authorized and directed — 



(1) to construct additional taxonomic facilities ; 



(2) to establish a program for the recruitment, training, and placement 

 of taxonomists in such number as may be required to classify fishes and 

 marine invertebrates collected in carrying out the purposes of this Act ; 



(3) to make grants of funds to qualified scientists, institutions, labora- 

 tories, or museums, such grants to be used for taxonomy relating to marine 

 organisms ; and 



