106 NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM LEGISLATION 



Sec. 6. (a) The Council shall arrange with the Federal Bureau of Investiga- 

 tion for the conduct of such security or other personnel investigation of the 

 Council's officers, employees, and consultants, as it deems appropriate, and if 

 any such investigation develops any data reflecting that the individual who is 

 the subject thereof is of questionable loyalty there shall be a full field investiga- 

 tion of the matter, the results of which shall be furnished to the Council. 



(b) The Atomic Energy Commission may authorize any of its employees, or 

 employees of any contractor, prospective contractor, licensee, or prospective licen- 

 see of the Atomic Energy Commission under subsection 145(b) of the Atomic 

 Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2165(b)), to permit any member, officer, or em- 

 ployee of the Council to have access to restricted data relating to oceanography 

 and the marine sciences which is required in the performance of his duties and 

 so certified by the Council but only if (1) the Council or designee thereof has 

 determined, in accordance with the established personnel security procedures and 

 standards of the Council, that permitting such individual to have access to such 

 destricted data will not endanger the common defense and security, and (2) 

 the Council or designee thereof finds that the established personnel and other 

 security procedures and standards of the Council are adequate and in reasonable 

 conformity to the standards established by the Atomic Energy Commission under 

 section 145 of the Atomic Energy i\.ct of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2165). xVny individual 

 granted access to such restricted data pursuant to this subsection may exchange 

 such data with any individual who (A) is an officer or employee of the Depart- 

 ment of Defense, or any department or agency thereof, or a member of the 

 Armed Forces, or a contractor or subcontractor of any such department, agency, 

 or armed force, or an officer or employee of any such contractor or subcon- 

 tractor, and (B) has been authorized to have access to restricted data under 

 the provisions of section 143 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 

 216".^. 



Sec. 7. Information obtained or developed under this Act shall be made 

 available for public inspection except (a) information authorized or required 

 by Federal statute to be withheld, and (b) information classified to protect the 

 national security : Provided. That nothing in this Act shall authorize the with- 

 holding of information from the duly authorized committees of Congress. 



Sec. 8. (a) For the purposes of this Act the term "marine science" shall be 

 deemed to apply to oceanographic and scientific endeavors and disciplines, engi- 

 neering and technology in and with relation to the marine environment; and 

 the term "marine environment" shall be deemed to include (1) the oceans, (2) 

 the Continental Shelf of the United States, (3) the Great Lakes, (4) seabed and 

 subsoil of the submarine areas adjacent to the coasts of the United States to 

 the depth of two hundred meters, or beyond that limit, to where the depths of 

 the superjacent waters admit of the exploitation of the natural resources of such 

 areas, (5) the seabed and subsoil of similar submarine areas adjacent to the 

 coasts of islands which comprise United States territory, and (6) the resources 

 thereof. 



(b) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be neces- 

 sary to carry out this Act, but sums appropriated for any one fiscal year shall not 

 exceed $1.0()0,000. 



Sec. 9. The provisions of this Act shall expire at the termination of June 30, 

 1970. 



Passed the Senate August 5, 1965. 



Attest : 



Felton M. Johnston, Secretary. 



U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 

 Washington^ D.C, August 18, 1965. 

 Hon. Herbert C. Bonner, 



Chairman^ Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 

 House of Representatives. 



Dear Mr. Bonner : The Atomic Energy Commission is pleased to 

 comment on S. 944, a bill "[t]o provide for expanded research and 

 development in the marine environment of the United States, to es- 

 tablish a National Coimcil on Marine Eesources and Engineering De- 



