8 -MARINE SCIENCE 
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
Src. 7. The Secretary of Commerce is authorized and directed, with such funds 
as may be appropriated or otherwise made available to him, to undertake a 
ten-year program of study, surveys, and research as part of the general program 
for the development of the marine sciences in the United States. In further- 
ance of the purposes of this Act, the Secretary is authorized and directed to 
carry out the following activities: 
(a) Request and obtain cooperation from other Government agencies having 
an interest in the marine sciences and ocean surveys, and cooperate with educa- 
tional institutions, laboratories, and industries devoted to the marine sciences 
and oceanography, and with other public and private organizations and persons 
who may be of assistance. 
(b) Initiate and carry out a program for the replacement, modernization, 
and enlargement in the number of oceangoing ships for use in ocean and coastal 
surveys and research by the Coast and Geodetic Survey. 
(ec) Construct and operate a sufficient number of Coast and Geodetic Survey 
shore facilities to support effectively the vessels provided for under the preced- 
ing item (b): Provided further, That such facilities shall include, but not be 
limited to, a. west coast and east coast operations base for hydrographic and 
oceanographic ships and for processing data. 
(d) Develop, construct, or acquire new or improved techniques, instruments, 
or equipment for ocean research or exploration which may include but not be 
limited to automatic data recording and data processing equipment gravimeters, 
magnetometers, seismic equipment, turbulence measuring devices, precision echo 
sounders, acoustic telemetering devices and instruments for the study of the 
current structure of the oceans, oceanic temperatures, bottom topography, Ssed- 
iments, heat flow through the ocean bottom, sound transmission and velocity, 
ambient noise, biological activity, and specimens and water samples for salinity, 
phosphate, oxygen, nitrogen, and other chemical or elemental components of 
the ocean. 
(e) The Act of June 12, 1895, as amended (44 U.S.C. 246), is further amended 
by adding to the Act the following: “Provided, That the Secretary of Commerce 
is authorized to furnish maps, charts and other publications and products of 
scientific value of the Coast and Geodetie Survey without charge to educational 
institutions, laboratories, and other public and private organizations and per- 
sons when it is determined that to furnish such information is in the national 
interest.” 
(f) Inaugurate in the Weather Bureau a comprehensive ten-year study of 
the interchange of energy and matter between the oceans and the atmosphere 
and its implications in connection with long-range weather forecasting, the use 
of infrared radiation thermometers for measurement of sea-Surface tempera- 
tures in connection with detection of incipient hurricanes, measurements of 
wave acceleration and pressure, and measurements of solar radiation in the 
marine environment. The provisions of this subsection may be carried out by 
means of contacts with public or private organizations, or by grants to scientific 
institutions earrying on such studies. 
(g) Expand studies and investigations by the Weather Bureau of the mech- 
-anism by which weather conditions lead to anomalies in ocean surface tempera- 
ture and the manner in which these anomalies modify the subsequent weather, 
the basic mechanism of the transfer of momentum from the air to the sea, the re- 
lationship of wind velocity over water to that over land, and the extent to which 
wave pressure, as distinct from wind stress, contributes to the piling up of 
water against the coasts during hurricanes and other severe storms. _ The pro- 
visions of this subsection may be carried out by means of contracts with public 
or private organizations, or by grants to scientific institutions carrying on such 
studies. f 
(h) Develop, construct, or acquire new and improved instruments, techniques, 
or equipment for use by the Weather Bureau in studies and investigations au- 
thorized under subsections (f) and (g) of this Section (7), including but not 
limited to infrared radiation thermometers, air wind measuring equipment for 
use on moving vessels, marine automatic meteorological observing stations, and 
ieation to such stations of atomic power sources. 
Sauces that the Maritime Administration, when requested by pine 
agencies of the Federal Government, construct, on a reimbursable basis, suc 
oceanographic research ships as may be required by such agencies, including 
