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increasing the seaworthiness, range, and efficiency of the United States fisheries 
research and exploration fleets. : ; 
(b) Such sums as are necessary for operation of new fisheries research and 
exploration ships: Provided, however, That operation costs of such new ships 
placed in operation by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries shall not aggregate 
-in excess of $3,400,000 per annum, and that, in programing operations of such 
ships, the Secretary of the Interior shall give full consideration to the needs for 
such operations in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of 
Alaska, Bering Sea, other marine areas of present or potential commercial im- 
portance, and the Great Lakes. 
(ec) Such sums as are necessary for capital expenditures in inaugurating, 
developing, or expanding new ocean resource studies and surveys, including sums 
for construction or expansion of facilities for such studies, which facilities may 
include but shall not be limited to, oceanaria, laboratories for research in marine 
mortality and survival, an institute or institutes for research on diseases of fish, 
shellfish, and other marine life, unmanned buoys for recording continuous ocean 
-data of value to the fisheries industry, related industries, and other departments 
and agencies of the Government, mesoscaphs for marine biological observations, 
and automatic continuous plankton samplers. 
(d) Such sums as are necessary for operations, excluding ship operations, of 
fisheries resource studies including, but not limited to, those stated above in 
subsection (c) of this section, marine population sampling, biological surveys, 
ecological mapping, taxonomy, genetics of marine organisms, microbiology, pond 
fish culture and brackish water fish farming, estuarine studies, marine radiation 
biology, artificial cultivation of marine organisms and selective breeding of food 
fishes, closed ecology systems utilizing marine life, migrations, transplantations, 
and nutrient research: Provided, however, That expenditures for operations of 
new resource studies by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to this Act not 
exceed $10,000,000 per annum. 
(e) Such sums as are necessary for education and training programs author- 
ized in subsection (kK) of section 5 of this Act: Provided, however, That costs 
‘to the Department of the Interior of education and training under this subsection 
shall not exceed $100,000 per annum. 
(f) The sum of $11,000,000 for continuing studies over a ten-year period of 
utilization of marine products for human consumption, animal feeds, industrial 
purposes, fertilizers, and organic chemicals or compounds, for the development 
of new uses of marine products, for legal and economic studies relating to 
commercial fisheries, and for investigations of mineral resources in the seas: 
Provided, however, That in directing these studies the Secretary of the Interior 
shall give full consideration to their being carried on in existing institutions, 
agencies, or laboratories through the issuance of grants to said institutions, 
agencies, and laboratories. 
(g) The sum of $1,000,000 for operation and maintenance during the ten-year 
program of expanded oceanographic research and surveys, of the Fisheries 
Instrumentation Laboratory of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, such Lab- 
oratory having been established by the Bureau, January 2, 1957, and terminated 
by the Bureau, December 31, 1960, said Laboratory to resume planning, design 
and development, for marine biological and fisheries research and exploration, 
of new and specialized instruments: Provided, however, That expenditures for 
operations of the Fisheries Instrumentation Laboratory by the Bureau of Com- 
mercial Fisheries shall not exceed $100,000 per annum: Provided, further, That 
the authority herein conveyed shall not be construed to supplant or restrict the 
authority of the Secretary of the Interior to contract with qualified instrumen- 
tation companies for the planning, design, development, or manufacture of instru- 
ments for marine biological research and exploration using such other funds 
of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries for this purpose as may be available. 
(h) Such sums as are necessary for expanded communications facilities and 
services authorized in subsection (j) of section 5 of this Act. 
(i) All authority of this section of this Act shall be provided for in such 
manner that all information, uses, products, processes, patents, and other de- 
velopments resulting from such research or technological advances achieved 
by Government expenditure will (with such exceptions and limitations, if any, 
as the Secretary may find to be necessary in the interest of national defense) 
be available to the general public: Provided, however, That nothing contained 
herein shall be construed as to deprive the owner of any background patent 
relating thereto to said rights as he may have thereunder. 
