MARINE SCIENCES AND RESEARCH ACT AQ 
project TENOC or the Navy’s revised long-range oceanography 
program’’. 
Pages 24 and 25, paragraphs (h) and (1). As a positive means of 
implementing the authority contained in these provisions, it is recom- 
mended that section 13 of S. 2692 include a provision to amend section 
7394, title 10, United States Code, by adding: ‘‘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.” 
Existing statutes are adequate to cover the furnishing of such 
information to commercial interests but they are construed as making 
impossible the free distribution of material of scientific value. 
Page 25, line 7, change to read: ‘‘(1) Request and obtain cooperation 
from and cooperate with other govern-’’. 
Page 26, lines 1-20: It is recommended that the portion of this 
section relating to ship construction be worded in general terms similar 
to line 5, page 27, for the construction of new shore facilities. 
Page 27, line 5: Change to read: “for modernization, improvement, 
and expansion of existing shore facilities for basic research and for 
construction of new shore facilities for basic’’. 
Page 27, line 8: Change to read: “for modernization, improvement, 
and expansion of existing shore facilities for survey work and for 
construction of new shore facilities for survey’’. 
Page 27, line 10: It is recommended that the following substitution 
be made for the present language beginning on line 10 and extending 
through line 21. The substitution is offered for consistency with 
authority granted elsewhere in 8. 2692 and in some instances reflects 
instrumentation already in use or in research and development stages 
under the cognizance of the Department of the Navy: ‘for engineering 
needs for ocean exploration and research which may include bathy- 
scaphs and other manned submersibles to be used for research, wave 
measuring equipment, systems engineering for reduction of data, 
manned and unmanned buoys for automatic continuous oceanographic 
recording, ice breakers and submarines modified or converted for 
scientific use, vessel positioning system, acoustical equipment and 
telemetering devices, current meters, measuring devices for direct 
density, turbulence and radioactivity, and underwater television, 
seismic equipment, automatic continuous biological sampling devices, 
precision salinometers, precision echo sounders, towed temperature 
recorders, magnetometers, and other instruments and laboratory 
equipment for oceanographic research; and’’. 
This report has been coordinated within the Department of Defense 
in accordance with procedures prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. 
The Department of the Navy has been advised by the Bureau of the 
Budget that there is no objection to the submission of this report on 
S. 2692 to the Congress. 
Sincerely yours, 
F. A. Bantz, 
Under Secretary of the Navy 
(For the Secretary of the Navy). 
