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e. Establish observation stations in coastal waters to 
determine the short-term, seasonal, and yearly changes in 
waves, currents, and hydrography in the area surrounding 
the station. 
f. Develop, construct, or acquire instruments and equip- 
ment for the furtherance of the program of studies authorized 
in this section. 
ge. Determine the sources of the bottom materials in the 
coastal area, the rates and methods of movement of these 
materials, and the effects on the coastal hydrography of 
changes in the rate at which these materials reach the coastal 
zone. 
h. Study the mechanics and effects of density currents 
encountered in the coastal area on the current velocities, 
current patterns, hydrography, interchange of waters, and 
rates of sedimentation. 
Sec. 16. In order to carry out the policies of this Act 
and of Senate Resolution Numbered 136, Eighty-sixth Con- 
gress, and to provide for the participation of the Department 
of the Army, including either or both military or civil fune- 
tions activities, in the general program for the development 
of marine sciences in the United States, there is hereby au- 
thorized to be appropriated to the Department of the Army, 
during the ten-year period beginning July 1 of the first fiscal 
year following approval of this Act, the following sums, not 
to exceed $2,000,000 per annum: 
a. Such sums as are necessary for the investigations and 
activities described in section 15 relating to investigations in 
physical oceanography in the near-shore zone. 
b. Such sums as are necessary to purchase, develop, or 
acquire and operate the scientific equipment required for 
investigations in physical oceanography in the near-shore 
zone, including but not limited to amphibious craft, floating 
craft, fixed platforms, buoys, current meters, wave meters, 
tide gages, sound equipment, direct density measuring equip- 
ment, turbulence meters, underwater cameras, and under- 
water television equipment, and other instruments and 
laboratory equipment for oceanographic research in the near- 
shore zone. 
c. Such sums as are required for expansion and equipping 
of shore facilities as are necessary to support the program of 
investigations in physical oceanography in the near-shore 
zone. 
d. Such sums as are necessary to provide funds for con- 
tracts with qualified scientists, research laboratories, research 
organizations, or educational institutions to make investi- 
gations into physical oceanography in the near-shore zone. 
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
S. 2692 is further amended by the addition of sections 17 and 18 
for the purpose of including the Smithsonian Institution in the 10- 
year program of comprehensive expansion of the marine sciences 
authorized in the bill. The amendments follow: 
