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the new words: “oceanographic research;” and by inserting after (3) the 
following new subsection : 
“(4) aids to oceanographic research required to serve the needs of maritime 
commerce and navigation, including undersea navigation, the national defense,. 
and of increasing the safety of life and property on the high seas.”: and by 
inserting in the subsequent paragraph after the words “loran stations’ and 
before the words “shall be established” the following new language: ‘and scien- 
tific instruments, equipment, systems and facilities”’. 
(c) Title 14 of the United States Code, chapter 5, section 90(a), is hereby 
amended by inserting after the word “communication,” and before the words. 
“and air navigation facilities,” the following new words: “oceanographic re- 
search and surveys”. 
(d) Title 14 of the United States Code is further amended by inserting at 
the end of chapter 5 the following new section : 
“§ 94. Oceanographic research 
“The Coast Guard may conduct such oceanographic research and collect and 
analyze such oceanographic data, in cooperation with other agencies of the 
Government or not, as the Secretary determines to be in the national interest: 
Provided, however, That the authority herein conveyed shall not be construed 
to supplant, restrict, or change in any way the authority and responsibility of 
any other department or agency of the United States, including the performance 
of surveys and mapping.” : 
(e) The analysis of chapter 5 of title 14 of the United States Code is. 
amended by inserting at the end thereof the following : 
“Sec. 94. Oceanographic research.” 
(f) As part of the general United States program for the development of 
the marine sciences, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to 
undertake, through the United States Coast Guard, and without regard to: 
previous statutory limitations, a ten-year program of oceanographic research. 
The Secretary is authorized and directed, with such funds as may be appro- 
priated or otherwise made available to him for purposes of this Act the follow- 
ing activities: 
(1) Request and obtain cooperation from and cooperate with other govern- 
mental agencies having an interest in the marine sciences, and, under such pro- 
visions and conditions as may be prescribed by the Secretary, cooperate with 
the several States, with educational institutions, laboratories, and with scientific 
organizations in programs of oceanographic research. 
(2) Conduct, in cooperation with Government agencies, including agencies of 
friendly governments requesting and reciprocating such cooperation, bathy- 
thermograph observations, sonic soundings, strontium 90, carbon 14, air pollution,. 
sea water and plankton samplings, studies of marine borers and fouling organ- 
isms, and such other oceanographic research as, in the opinion of the Secretary 
and the Division of Marine Sciences of the National Science Foundation, will 
advance the marine sciences in and of the United States. 
(3) Hxpand, in pursuance of functions of the Department under this Act, or 
in cooperation with other Government agencies and with institutions and scien- 
tifie organizations, under such provisions and conditions as the Secretary may 
prescribe, oceanographic research conducted on or from weather ships and 
other ocean station vessels operated by the United States Coast Guard, offshore 
towers operated by the Coast Guard, and from such large, oceangoing Coast 
Guard vessels, including cutters, icebreakers, tugs, patrol craft, lightships and 
buoy tenders as the Secretary in consultation with other Government agencies 
and the Division of Marine Sciences of the National Science Foundation may 
find adaptable to oceanographic research: Provided, however, That in this deter- 
mination, the research to be undertaken shall not diminish the capabilities of 
the respective classes of Coast Guard vessels, or of their officers or crews, to ac- 
ecomplish their primary missions as assigned to them by the Secretary or the 
Commandant of the Coast Guard. 
(4) Obtain and install on such Coast Guard vessels as the Secretary may 
designate under subsection (f)(3) of section 17 of this Act, such equipment 
or instruments as may be acquired for oceanographic research authorized under 
this section (17). 
(5) Provide such facilities or personnel as may be required for analysis of 
oceanographic data collected and transmitted under the provisions of this 
section (17). 
