14 MARINE SCIENCES AND RESEARCH ACT 
Interior: 
Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. 
Bureau of Mines. 
Geological Survey. 
Navy: 
Office of Naval Research. 
Hydrographic Office. 
Health, Education, and Welfare: Office of Education. 
Army: Beach Erosion Board: 
Independent agencies: 
National Science Foundation. 
Atomic Energy Commission. 
Smithsonian Institution. 
Following approval by your committee of the bill as amended, 
comments on the bill were received from the Department of Health, 
Education, and Welfare proposing that should the committee take 
favorable action on the bill appropriate sections of the bill should be 
amended to include the Public Health Service, which, according to 
the Department, engaged in a number of scientific activities in the 
marine environment. 
The Department suggestion is meritorious and well grounded. 
However, as it was not made until after your committee had ordered 
the bill reported, as amended, the proposal can only be included by 
adoption by the Senate of an appropriate amendment offered from 
the floor. 
The bill, as introduced on September 11, 1959, contained 15 sec- 
tions. As amended in committee the bill has 19 sections. New 
sections were added to authorize participation in the 10-year program 
by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers through its Beach Erosion 
Board, which was requested in comments received from the Depart- 
ment of Defense, and of the Smithsonian Institution, requested by a 
number of scientific institutions and concurred in by the Committee 
on Oceanography. 
Remaining committee amendments are principally of a perfecting 
nature and a majority of these were suggested by departments and 
agencies in their comments on the bill. Others, designed to broaden 
the program in the interest of balance and efficiency, were proposed 
by scientific organizations or the Committee on Oceanography fol- 
lowing a review of its summary report. 
ANALYSIS OF BILL BY SECTIONS 
The title of the act, ‘“Marine Sciences and Research Act of 1959,” 
is given in section 1. 
DECLARATION OF POLICY 
Section 2 declares the policy objectives of the Congress with re- 
lation to oceanographic and lmnological research and surveys. — It 
substantially restates the objectives detailed in Senate Resolution 
136, adopted by the Senate in the Ist session of the 86th Congress; 
declares that to fulfull these objectives requires establishment of a 
Division of Marine Sciences in the National Science Foundation, and 
authorizes this Division to accept certain responsibilities and under- 
take certain duties. 
