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but not limited to ships of approximately five hundred tons and one thousand 
two hundred to one thousand five hundred tons displacement; design, or ar- 
range for the design of such ships, with due attention given to suitable arrange- 
ments of laboratory space and living quarters for scientists, space and power 
for winches and other auxiliaries, sea keeping and handling qualities at low 
speeds, quiet operation, efficient and economical scientists-crew ratios, and opera- 
tion in all kinds of weather; supervise the construction of such ships, undertake 
research and development for oceanographic research ships of unusual or novel 
design. Oceanographic research ships constructed pursuant to this subsection 
shall, when completed, be made available, at the discretion of the Secretary, 
to nonprofit oceanographic research centers, to other agencies of the Federal 
Government, or, pursuant to negotiated contracts or grants, to State institutions 
engaged in oceanographic research requiring oceangoing scientific ships, with 
preference given to such agencies and institutions which have engaged in such 
research prior to this Act. The ships authorized by this subsection are in 
addition to ships authorized to be constructed by other sections of this Act. 
(j) Establish with the National Science Foundation a program of education 
and training in the marine sciences for selected students or employees beginning 
not lower than the senior level of undergraduate school and continuing through 
not more than four years of graduate training and research in such sciences, 
Src. 8. It is necessary, in order to further the policies of S. Res. 186, Highty- 
six Congress, and of this Act, to have the Department of Commerce and its 
bureaus and offices carry out, under laws, as amended, relating to such Depart- 
ment or such bureaus and offices, specified duties as part of the general program 
for the development of the marine sciences in the United States. Appropriations 
authorized in this section shall be in addition to other appropriations provided 
for such Department to carry out its duties under law. ‘There are hereby 
authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Commerce and its bureaus 
and offices, during the ten-year period beginning with July 1, of the first fiscal 
year following approval of this Act by the President, the following sums: 
(a) Such sums as are necessary for construction by or for the Coast and 
Geodetic Survey of two survey ships of five hundred tons displacement, two 
survey ships of one thousand two hundred to one thousand five hundred tons dis- 
placement, and four survey ships of two thousand tons displacement or more. 
(b) Such sums as are necessary for operations of new Coast and Geodetic 
Survey ships authorized under this Act during the ten-year life of this program. 
(c) Such sums as are necessary for construction of new shore facilities for 
processing and evaluating Coast and Geodetic Survey oceanographic data, and 
for construction of an operations base on the west coast of the United States and 
on the east coast of the United States for hydrographic and oceanographic ships 
and for processing data. 
(d) Such sums as are necessary for engineering and scientific needs for ocean 
exploration and research conducted by the Coast and Geodetic Survey including 
but not limited to, wave measuring equipment, systems for reduction of data, 
manned and unmanned buoys for automatic continuous oceanographic record- 
ing, fixed observation stations in coastal waters to determine the short term, 
seasonal and yearly changes in waves, currents, tides, temperatures, hydrog- 
raphy and salinities in the area surrounding the station, vessel positioning 
equipment, acoustic equipment and measuring devices for direct density and 
radioactivity, telemetering devices, current meters, tide gages, underwater cam- 
eras and television, seismic equipment, automatic continuous biological sam- 
pling devices, precision salinometers, precision echo sounders, towed and fixed 
temperature recorders, magnetometers, gravimeters, and other instruments and 
laboratory equipment for oceanographic research. 
(e) Such sums as are necessary for operation of shore facilities and oper- 
ations bases constructed under the authorization provided in subsection (c) of 
section 7 of this Act. 
(f) Such sums as are necessary for the establishment and operation by the 
Weather Bureau of a ten-year study of the interchange of energy and matter be- 
tween the oceans and the atmosphere, and for other studies, investigations and 
research authorized in subsections (f) and (g) of section 7 of this Act. 
(g) Such sums as are necessary for development, construction, or acquisition 
by the Weather Bureau of new and improved instruments, techniques or equip- 
ment authorized in subsection (h) of section 7 of this Act. 
(h) Such sums as are necessary to enable the Maritime Administration to 
design and construct the ships authorized in section 7(i) of this Act. 
