4O MARINE SCIENCES AND RESEARCH ACT 
marine invertebrates collected or acquired by the Institution 
for taxonomic purposes. 
The purpose of sections 17 and 18 is to assure, in the interest of a 
balanced program, that facilities and adequately trained personnel 
be provided, in the appropriate centralized Federal institution, for 
scientific study and classification of specimens of marine life to be 
collected or acquired during the 10-year program of biological research 
authorized in the act. 
Present facilities and personnel for taxonomy in the marine biological 
field at the Smithsonian Institution and Museum of Natural History 
are inadequate not only for collections of specimens which would be 
acquired during the 10-year program of comprehensive ocean re- 
search, but for present collections at the Institution. 
The amendments have been suggested by a number of scientific 
institutions, including the Academy of Natural Sciences in Phila- 
delphia, the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, and the 
Pacific Marine Station of the College of the Pacific, and have been 
concurred in by the Committee on Oceanography. 
GENERAL 
1. Page 28, line 3 retains the heading “General” over the final 
section of the bill. 
2. Page 28, line 4, after “Src.” strike the numeral “15” and insert 
in heu thereof the numeral ‘19”’’. 
3. Amend the section after line 18 by adding a new section to 
read as follows 
(c) All agreements for grants executed pursuant to the au- 
thority contained in this Act in excess of $50,000 shall contain 
a provision that the Comptroller General of the United 
States or his duly authorized representatives shall have the 
right to examine any directly pertinent books, documents, 
papers, and records of the grantee relating to the purpose of 
the grant for a period of three years after the last payment to 
the grantee under the grant. 
This provision is in accordance with other statutes relating to 
Federal grants. 
Amend the title so as to read: 
A bill to advance the marine sciences, to establish a compre- 
hensive ten-year program of oceanographic research and 
surveys, to promote commerce and navigation, to secure the 
national defense, to expand ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes 
resources, to authorize the construction of research and sur- 
vey ships and facilities, to assure systematic studies of effects 
of radioactive materials i in marine environments, to enhance 
the general welfare, and for other purposes. 
The words ‘‘coastal, and Great Lakes’”’ have been added as making 
more specific the scope of the program and the inclusion of these 
waters and their contents in the research and surveys authorized. 
Your committee urges enactment of this legislation, which will 
enable the United States to meet the challenge of Soviet Russia or 
any other foreign nation in the fields of marine science. 
