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5. Reference: Section 20(e). It is suggested that a new section 

 20(e) be added with wording as follows: "Such appropriation shall be 

 in addition to other appropriations provided to the Smithsonian 

 Institution to carry out its duties under law." 



Thank you for the opportunity to comment on this proposed legis- 

 lation. You are advisee! that there is no objection to the presentation 

 of this proposed report from the standpoint of the administration's 

 program. 



Sincerely yours, 



Leonard Carmichael, Secretary. 



National Academy of Sciences, 



Washington, B.C., August 21, 1961. 

 Hon. Herbert C. Bonner, 



Chairman , Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 

 House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 



Dear Mr. Bonner: Your letter of August 4, 1961, to President 

 Detlev W. Bronk, of the National Academy of Sciences, invites his 

 comments on S. 901, Marine Sciences and Research Act of 1961. 



Members of our Committee on Oceanograph}' testified in detail last 

 March on the provisions of the original S. 901, and their testimonj^ 

 appears in the published hearings of that time before the Senate Inter- 

 state and Foreign Commerce Committee. The current version of 

 S. 901 contains revisions based on the testimony of those individuals 

 and others. Although our Committee has not reviewed the new S. 901 

 in detail, it seems clear that they would consider it an improvement 

 over the original bill, which the Committee is already on record as 

 favoring. 



Yours sincerely, 



S. D. Cornell, Executive Officer. 



Executive Office of the President, 



Bureau of the Budget, 

 Washington, D.C, August 17, 1961. 

 Hon. Herbert C. Bonner, 



Chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 

 House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 



Dear Mr. Chairman: This is in response to your request for views 

 and recommendations on S. 901, a bill to advance the marine sciences, 

 to establish a comprehensive 10-year program of oceanographic 

 research and surveys, to promote commerce and navigation, to secure 

 the national defense, to expand ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes 

 resources, to authorize the construction of research and survey ships 

 and laboratory facilities, to expedite oceanogranhic instrumentation, 

 to assure systematic studies of effects of radioactive materials in 

 marine environments, to enhance the public health and general 

 welfare, and for other purposes. 



Strengthening and promoting the marine sciences, as the bill 

 proposes, are important objectives, but in our judgment, enactment 

 of the bill is not necessary to achieve those objectives for the following 

 reasons : 



