52 MARINE SCIENCES AND RESEARCH ACT 
1. The importance of the vast estuarine and inshore ocean waters 
and areas as a future major resource for municipal, industrial, and 
recreational water supplies. 
2. The use of estuarine and inshore ocean waters as the final place 
of disposal for municipal and industrial wastes of rapidly increasing 
complexity and amounts, and the effects thereon. 
3. The use of selected areas in the open ocean for the disposal of 
radioactive wastes, and the berthing of nuclear-powered ships in 
estuarine and inshore ocean waters. 
4. The use of the ocean fishery resources as it relates to the health 
of the people of the United States, and the health of the populations 
in the underdeveloped countries of the world that this Nation is 
aiding. 
The Public Health Service participates in oceanographic studies 
through the following mechanisms: 
1. Consultation and technical services to the U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers on a reimbursable basis on problems relating to pollution 
of inshore and estuarine waters from municipal and industrial wastes. 
2. Consultation and technical services to the Atomic Energy 
Commission and the Maritime Administration on a reimbursable 
basis to develop optimized harbor and estuarine surveillance pro- 
cedures for radioactive contamination and research on radioactivity 
in estuarine and marine waters. 
3. Consultation to State water pollution control agencies on specific 
problems of potential radiation contamination and chemical pollution 
of estuarine and onshore ocean waters; also, problems involving dis- 
posal of municipal and industrial wastes. 
4. Close working relationships with the Scripps Institution of 
Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Chesapeake 
Bay Institute, and other oceanographic research institutions on prob- 
lems relating to pollution. 
5. Membership on the interdepartmental coordinating Committee 
on Oceanography. 
6. Research grants supporting oceanographic research in the amount 
of $120,000 for the fiscal year 1960. 
On August 22 the President directed that the Department of 
Health, Education, and Welfare ‘intensify its radiological health 
efforts and have primary responsibility within the executive branch 
for the collation, analysis, and interpretation of data on environmental 
radiation levels * * * so that the Secretary * * * may advise the 
President and the general public.” 
In order to carry out this directive, the Department has directed 
that Public Health Service assume responsibility, inter alia, for the 
operation of monitoring and sampling networks to determined the 
degree of radioactivity present in water, and for the development of 
recommendations pertaining to acceptable levels of exposure to radio- 
activity from water. 
In view of these responsibilities, we believe that the Department, 
through the Public Health Service, is capable of making a consider- 
able contribution to any expanded program of oceanographic research. 
The Bureau of the Budget advises that it perceives no objection 
to the submission of this report to your committee. 
Sincerely yours, 
Burrna 8S. Apxkrins, Acting Secretary. 
