MARINE SCIENCES AND RESEARCH ACT 35 
Navy’s revised long-range oceanography program approved 
by the Chief of Naval Operations, and substantially similar to 
the recommendations made in the report of the Committee 
on Oceanography of the National Academy of Sciences— 
National Research Council. 
8. Page 25, line 7, insert ‘‘and cooperate with” after the word 
‘from’ and before the word “‘other’’. A perfecting amendment. 
9. Page 25, following line 12, add the following new subsection: 
(j) Section 7394, title 10, U.S.C., is hereby amended to 
read as follows: ‘‘The Secretary of the Navy is authorized 
to furnish maps, charts, and other publications and products 
of scientific value of the Hydrographic Office without charge 
to educational institutions, laboratories, and other public and 
private organizations and persons when it is determined that 
to furnish such information is in the national interest.”’ 
The above amendment broadens the usefulness and services of the 
Hydrographic Office and the Navy and Defense Departments are to 
be commended for recommending its inclusion in the bill. In an 
explanatory note in their comments it is stated: 
Existing statutes are adequate to cover the furnishing of 
such information to commercial interests but they are con- 
strued as making impossible the free distribution of material 
of scientific value. 
The new subsection will make such distribution permissive. 
Section 14: 
1. Page 26, line 1, after the word ‘‘construction” insert the words 
‘“‘research and survey ships which include but shall not be limited to’’, 
the remainder of the clause reading ‘“‘nine one thousand two hundred 
to one thousand five hundred-ton displacement research ships:”’. 
2. Page 26, line 3, after the word ‘“‘ships’”’ change the colon to a 
semicolon and delete the remainder of lines 8, all of lines 4, 5 and 6. 
This eliminates the provision adopted from the TENOC report which 
spaced the construction of these ships over a period of years. As the 
Navy has not commenced the construction of ships on the basis pro- 
posed in the TENOC report, and in fact had not, until a few days 
ago, issued contracts for any of these ships except the 80-foot boat 
previously noted, and has now issued contracts for only two ships, 
it will be necessary to accelerate the construction program if it is to 
meet the expectations of the Office of Naval Research or the Com- 
mittee on Oceanography during the next 10 years. In deleting the 
proviso above, and elsewhere in this section, it is the hope of the 
committee that construction of these needed ships will be expedited 
and not further delayed. 
3. Page 26, lines 7, 8, 9, and 10, in line 7 delete the words ‘‘for the 
construction’’, in line 8 after the word “‘ships” change the colon to a 
semicolon and strike the remainder of line 8 and all of lines 9 and 10. 
This is in line with the policy explained under numbered paragraph 
2 above and has the further effect of consolidating the authorization 
for appropriations for construction of Navy research and survey ships. 
4. Page 26, line 11, delete “for the construction”’. 
5. Page 26, lines 13, 15, and 16, delete in line 13 ‘‘for the construc- 
tion’’, and in line 15 after the word ‘‘displacement”’ change the colon 
to a semicolon and delete the remainder of that line and all of line 16. 
