30 MARINE SCIENCES AND RESEARCH ACT 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE, OFFICE OF 
EDUCATION 
Section 9 would authorize and direct the Secretary of Health, Edu- 
cation, and Welfare to undertake a 10-year program of obtaining new 
faculty in oceanography and marine sciences as part of the general 
program for developing the marine sciences in the United States, and 
to provide assistance through the Office of Education in the form of 
teachers’ salaries and equipment. 
Section 10 would authorize appropriations to carry out the duties 
specified in section 9. 
Amendment to section 10 
Page 18, line 19, strike that portion of the sentence following the 
word ‘States.”? which reads ‘‘Appropriations authorized in this sec- 
tion”’ and insert prior to the word “shall” at the beginning of line 20 
the following: ‘‘Expenditures for this purpose shall not exceed $500,000 
per annum and appropriations for such expenditures.”’ The remain- 
ing portion of the sentence reads ‘‘shall be in addition to other appro- 
priations provided for such Department or Office to carry out its 
duties under law,’ and is unchanged. This is a perfecting amend- 
ment. 
ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION 
Section 11 would authorize the Atomic Energy Commission to con- 
duct an intensive 10-year program of control and monitoring of atomic 
waste disposal in the marine environment, including studies of circula- 
tion and mixing processes which affect distribution of contaminants 
in coastal and estuarine waters and the effects of radioactive elements 
on living organisms of the hydrosphere. The section would provide 
also that certain aspects of the program shall be carried on by the 
Public Health Service and the Coast and Geodetic Survey, or both, 
with funds made available by the Atomic Energy Commission. 
Great emphasis was placed on the importance of this program by 
scientists who testified before the committee. 
During the hearings the following colloquy took place between the 
chairman (Mr. Magnuson) and former Atomic Energy Commissioner 
Sumner Pike: 
The CuatrmMan. Have you any information on the problem 
of dumping atomic wastes from your experience on the 
Atomic Energy Commission? 
Mr. Pixs. Yes, I feel, and Dr. Spilhaus does, that we 
ought to know what we are doing before we dump any 
amount of these wastes in the ocean. Once it is done, it is 
irreversible. It is like capital punishment. When you 
change your mind you can’t get it back. 
We ought to be very clear that if radioactive wastes are 
to be dumped in the ocean, they should be dumped in such 
places, at such times, and in such quantities only that we 
can prove to be completely harmless to the human race and 
indeed to other forms of life because, after all, the human 
race depends upon other forms of life for its own existence. 
Later, Dr. Dayton E. Carritt, formerly a scientist with tne Man- 
hattan District at Los Alamos, N. Mex., and now with Johns Hopkins 
