MARINE SCIENCES AND RESEARCH ACT 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 
Sec. 17. In furtherance of the policies in S. Res. 136, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, and of this Act, and in order to pre- 
serve, study, and classify marine, coastal, and Great Lakes 
organisms collected during the ten-year program of expanded 
hydrobiological research, the Secretary of the Smithsonian 
Institution is authorized and directed, with such funds as 
may be appropriated or otherwise made available to him, to— 
(a) construct additional facilities for the purposes 
authorized by this section; 
(b) establish a program for the recruitment, training, 
and placement of taxonomists in such number as may 
be required to classify fishes and marine invertebrates 
collected during the ten-year program of expanded 
hydrobiological research; 
(c) make grants of funds to qualified scientists, insti- 
tutions, laboratories, or museums, such grants to be 
used for taxonomy relating to marine organisms; 
(d) request and obtain cooperation from and cooperate 
with other governmental departments and agencies 
having a direct interest in the preservation, study and 
classification of marine organisms, and to cooperate with 
the several States, educational institutions, laboratories, 
museums, and other public and private organizations 
and persons who may be of assistance in this field of 
marine science. 
Sec. 18. It is necessary in order to carry out the policies 
of S. Res. No. 136, Eighty-sixth Congress, and of this Act 
to have the Smithsonian Institution carry out, under laws 
relating to such Institution, specified duties as part of the 
general program for the development of the marine sciences 
in the United States. Appropriations authorized in this 
section shall be in addition to other appropriations pro- 
vided for such Institution to carry out its duties under 
law. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the 
Smithsonian Institution, during the ten-year period be- 
ginning with July 1 of the first fiscal year beginning after 
the date of enactment of this Act following approval of this 
Act by the President, the following sums: 
(a) Such sums as may be necessary for the construction 
by the Institution of facilities necessary to preserve, study, 
and classify for taxonomic purposes marine, coastal and 
Great Lakes organisms collected by or for the Institution 
during the ten-year program of expanded hydrobiological 
research. 
(b) Such sums as are necessary for establishment by the 
Institution of a program for the recruitment, training and 
placement of taxonomists required for the purposes of this 
section. 
(c) Such sums as are necessary for use by the Institution 
under the authority conveyed in section 17(c). 
(d) Such sums as are necessary for the preservation, 
study and classification by the Institution of fishes and 
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