20 ‘MARINE SCIENCES AND. RESEARCH ACT 
competence from universities and non-Federal institutions would 
serve with representatives from designated Government agencies on 
the Div:sional Committee. 
Committee amendments to section 3 
1. Page 7, line 8, insert after the last word of this line the words 
“divisional, committee of the”’ 
2. Page 7, line 13, insert after “Administration,” the words ‘the 
Beach Erosion Board of the United States Army Corps of Engineers,’’. 
This was suggested in the joint comments submitted by the Navy and 
Defense Departments. 
3. Page 7, line 14, insert after the word “scientists”? the words 
“selected on a basis of competence”’; after the word “and” the word 
“non-Federal’”’, and strike after the word “institutions” the phrase 
“receiving assistance from the foregoing agencies.’””’ The purpose of 
the first amendment is to assure representatives chosen from non- 
Federal fields to serve on the divisional committee of the Division of 
Marine Sciences shall be highly qualified scientists. The final amend- 
ment in this section deletes what the committee considered to be an 
unnecessary restriction in this selection. 
AUTHORIZATIONS FOR NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 
Section 4 adopts the recommendations of the Committee on Ocea- 
nography in authorizing appropriations to the National Science Foun- 
dation of funds for development of the marine sciences over a 10-year 
period beginning with July 1 of the first fiscal year following approval 
of the act by the President, and would provide that these appropria- 
tions be in addition to other appropriations provided the Foundation 
to carry out its statutory duties. Other sections of the bill authorizing 
appropriations contain similar language with reference to the effective 
date of the act and to appropriations authorized being supplementary 
to other appropriations. 
Authorizations would include $9,950,000 for construction of research 
ships, $12,440,000 for their operation over a 10-year period, and 
$8,250,000 for shore facilities for marine research. Under authority 
provided in section 3 of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 
the agency may conduct these and other activities specified in the 
bill through contracts, erants, loans, and other forms of assistance. 
The bill would authorize $37, 200,000 for basic marine research 
operations with the sae that expenditures in this category not 
exceed $8 million in any year; $3 million for fellowships to graduate 
students and postdoctoral ilows training to become professional 
oceanographers, annual costs not to exceed $300,000, and such sums as 
may be adequate for special devices for ocean exploration and research. 
The latter would include bathyscaphs and other manned sub- 
mersibles, icebreakers and submarines converted for scientific use, 
acoustic telemetering devices, magnetometers and many other ad- 
vanced instruments. Expenditures under this provision would be 
limited to not more than $10 million in any one year. Total costs of 
this specialized equipment over the 10-year period have been esti- 
mated by the Committee on Oceanography at $50.2 million. 
For what the Committee on Oceanography recommends as the 
Foundation’s portion of a minimal national oceanographic program, 
