MARINE SCIENCE 
TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1961 
U.S. SENATE, 
Senate ComMMITrer oN CoMMERCE, 
Washington, D.C. 
The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:15 a.m., in room 5110, 
New Senate Office Building, the Honorable Warren G. Magnuson, 
chairman of the committee, presiding. 
The CHamman. The committee will come to order. 
Several of the Senators are on their way or in the other room. We 
have a long agenda this morning. 
(S. 1189 follows :) 
[S. 1189, 87th Cong., 1st sess.] 
A BILL To amend title 14 of the United States Code in order to authorize the Coast 
Guard to earry on certain oceanographic research. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That title 14 of the 
United States Code, relating to the Coast Guard, is amended by insert- 
ing at the end of chapter 5 the following new section : 
“$94. Oceanographic research 
“The Coast Guard may conduct such oceanographic research, use 
such equipment or instruments, and collect and analyze such ocean- 
ographic data, in cooperation with other agencies of the Government 
or not, as the Secretary determines to be in the national interest.” 
Sc. 2. The analysis of chapter 5 of title 14 of the United States 
Code is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following: 
“9. Oceanographic research.”’ 
The Cuarrman. The chairman first wants to call Admiral Hirsh- 
field of the Coast Guard, who is here. 
Admiral, could you come forward ? 
The committee has held a long series of hearings on S. 901, the 
oceanography bill, which were conducted jointly with hearings on S. 
1189, to authorize the Coast Guard to conduct certain oceanographic 
research. Of course, the Coast Guard has a very deep interest in this 
whole matter. The Treasury has sent up reports on both S. 901 and 
S. 1189 which we will place in the record, but before we close the 
hearings we did want to have a statement from the Coast Guard, and 
I also will put in the record my preliminary statement. 
Admiral, you sent up to the committee, after the White House 
message on the bill, a breakdown and a budgetary summary and in- 
formation regarding Coast Guard vessels and operations and all your 
activities in the field of oceanography. 
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