MARINE SCIENCES AND RESEARCH ACT 25 
Amendments to sections 5 and 6 
1. Page 9, line 5, insert ‘Geological Survey” after the word “‘Mines”’. 
This amends the heading over these two sections to read: “Bureau of 
Mines, Geological Survey, and Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, 
Department of the Interior.” Representatives of the Geological 
Survey, at meetings of the Committee on Oceanography and of the 
Interagency Coordinating Committee on Oceanography, have supplied 
convincing evidence that they should participate in the overall oceano- 
graphic program. 
As further evidence an outline of current research programs being 
conducted by the Geological Survey has been submitted to your Com- 
mittee on Interstate and F oreign Commerce in connection with its 
considerations of S. 2692. 
These programs include research into marine geology and mineral 
resources of the Continental Shelves and shallower oceanic waters; 
marine sedimentary diagenetic and mineral accretion processes; marine 
geochronology and the sedimentary record; paleoclimatology, paleo- 
biogeography and paleocirculation; major crustal features of the 
western Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and California offshore basins; 
hydrodynamics of tidal and estuarine flow, and geochemical balance 
of the hydrosphere. 
The Department of the Interior, in its comments on S. 2692, states 
that present expenditures of the Geological Survey ageregate ‘ ‘some 
$600,000 annually,” a relatively small amount considering the magni- 
tude of the research it is attempting. 
2. Page 9, line 16, insert after the word “institutions” the words 
“or non-Federal agencies”. This amendment is designed to make 
specific the inclusion of State fisheries departments among those eligi- 
ble to receive grants from the Federal department or agencies for basic 
and applied research programs, facilities or equipment. 
3. Page 10, line 4, insert “including agencies of the several states”’ 
after the word ‘‘agencies”’. The purpose of this amendment is iden- 
tical to that above except that it is applicable to the conduct of ocean- 
wide surveys from which data relative to ocean resources may be 
obtained. 
4. Page 10, line 7, strike the first word ‘‘Conduct” and substitute 
“Cooperate with other departments and Agencies, including agencies 
of the several States in the conduct of”. This relates to studies of the 
relation of marine life to radioactive elements, and has the same pur- 
pose as the two preceding amendments. 
5. Page 10, line 16, insert the words ‘‘and cooperate with”’ after 
the word ‘‘from”’. This is a perfecting amendment suggested in com- 
ments received from the Navy and Defense Departments. 
6. Page 10, line 18, insert ‘‘or their agencies, and with’ after 
‘“States,”’. This is similar to numbered amendments 2, 3, and 4 above 
and relates to cooperation between Federal agencies and non-Federal 
agencies and institutions. 
7. Page 10, line 19, insert ‘‘and the” after the word ‘‘research” and 
the letter “‘s” after “science”. 
8. Page 10, line 20, strike the word ‘‘oceanography’’. 
9. Insert after line 25 the following paragraph: 
(1) Encourage and assist in taxonomic studies of marine 
organisms and in providing facilities for the preservation of 
S. Rept. 1525, 86—2———4 
