44. MARINE. SCIENCES AND RESEARCH ACT 
Section 8(c) should be amended to provide for at least six 2,000-ton 
ships with one each of the smaller types to conform with the opinion 
of the Subcommittee on Oceanography and this Department that 
ocean surveys of the type envisioned cannot be performed. efficiently 
by the smaller ships. 
The third function in section 8(d) lines 22 to 24, inclusive, page 17, 
should be denominated subsection (e) and amended to read as follows: 
‘““(e) Such sums as are necessary for the establishment and opera- 
tion by the Weather Bureau of a ten-year study of the interchange of 
energy and matter between the oceans and the atmosphere.”’ 
An additional function should be added to section 8(d) reading as 
follows: ‘ * * * for the conduct jointly with the Navy, of a syste- 
matic and expanded program of three-dimensional ocean surveys 
including measurements or studies of depths, salinity, temperatures, 
current velocity, wave motion, magnetism, and biological. activity.” 
Both this Department and the Navy believe the above amendment 
is necessary to assure joint effort on large projects and thus obviate 
military classification and military orientation. 
The Department recommends that the proviso lines 20 to 25 in- 
clusive, page 19 of section 11, should be amended by substitution of a 
comma for the period at the end of the sentence on line 25 and adding 
“but this proviso shall not authorize the Atomic Energy Commission 
to duplicate functions of the Coast and Geodetic Survey in the field of 
water circulation.” 
It is recommended that the provisions of section 13(g), lines 18 to 21, 
inclusive, page 24, be amended to conform to the amendment recom- 
mended above in section 8(d) with respect to joint Navy-Coast and 
Geodetic Survey projects. 
With the above recommended modifications it is estimated that the 
total program for this Department would approximate $112 million 
over the 10-year program period. 
The Bureau of the Budget advises there is no objection to the sub- 
mission of this report to your committee. 
Sincerely yours, 
Pururp A. Ray, 
Under Secretary of Commerce. 
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY, 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, 
OrricE oF LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS, 
Washington, D.C., April 19, 1960. 
Hon. Warren G. Macnuson, 
Chairman, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 
U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 
My Dear Mr. CuHatrman: Your request for comments on S. 2692, 
a bill to advance the marine sciences, to establish a comprehensive 
10-year program of oceanographic research and surveys; to promote 
commerce and navigation, to secure the national defense; to expand 
ocean resources; to authorized the construction of research and survey 
ships and facilities; to assure systematic studies of effects of radio- 
active materials in marine environments; to enhance the general 
welfare; and for other purposes, has been assigned to this Department 
