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(d) Cooperate with other departments and agencies, including agencies of 
the several States, in the conduct of ocean surveys from which data relative 
to the study of ocean resources may be obtained. 
(e) Cooperate with other departments and agencies, including agencies of 
the several States, in the conduct of studies of marine life with relation to 
radioactive elements, such studies to be directed toward determining the effect 
of distribution of radioactive elements in the sea on living marine organisms, 
and other such studies as the Secretary deems necessary to understand and 
evaluate the relation of radioactivity to the inhabitants of the marine environ- 
ment. 
(f) Conduct studies of the economic and legal aspects of commercial fisheries 
and the utilization of marine products. 
(g) Request and obtain cooperation from and cooperate with other govern- 
mental agencies having an interest in the marine sciences, and cooperate with 
the several States, or their agencies, and with educational institutions, labora-~ 
tories devoted to fishery research and the marine sciences, industries, and with 
other public and private organizations and persons who may be of assistance 
in furthering the conservation, development, and utilization of ocean, estuarine, 
and Great Lakes resources. 
(h) Conduct, wherever necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, and 
without regard to previous statutory limitations, examinations, investigations, 
research, surveys, and mapping of the geological structure, mineral resources, 
and products in and beneath any accessible portion of the oceans, seas, gulfs, 
and in or beneath the Great Lakes, and determine, as realistically as possible, 
the reserves of minerals and metals of industrial, commercial, or monetary 
value in or beneath these waters, and the effective techniques and probable costs 
of their recovery and extraction: 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. 
(i) Encourage and assist in taxonomic studies of marine organisms and in 
providing facilities for the preservation of specimens useful in scientific classi- 
fication of marine organisms. 
(j) Expand communications facilities and services of the Bureau of Com- 
mercial Fisheries to enable transmission, at the discretion of the Secretary, 
of oceanographic and fisheries data between ships at sea, including United States 
fishing vessels, research ships operated by Federal or State agencies, institutions, 
or commercial fisheries organizations, and shore stations operated by or for 
the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries under contract or otherwise: Provided, 
however, That in transmission of such data there be used radio frequencies 
presently or subsequently allocated to the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries by 
the Federal Communications Commission: Provided, further, That all oceano- 
graphic scientific and fisheries Gata transmitted under the provisions of this sub- 
section shall be made available to other departments or agencies of the Hederal 
Government, or to the appropriate agencies of such other governments as the 
Secretary may designate. 
(kk) 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, 
(1) Take such action and further such other activities as the Secretary 
finds will accomplish the purposes of this Act. 
Src. 6. It is necessary, in order to further the policies of 8. Res. 156, Highty- 
sixth Congress, and of this Act, to have the Department of the Interior and its 
Bureaus and Offices carry out, under laws relating to such Department, specified 
duties as part of the general program for 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 Interior, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Bureau of Mines and 
Geological Survey, 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 of new fisheries exploration 
and research ships authorized in subsection (b) of section 5. In the construc- 
tion of these ships, modern fisheries exploration and research vessels of other 
nations shall be studied with respect to design and performance with a view to 
