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and Wildlife, and the Bureau of Mines of this Department also have 
important interests in this field. This Department has made signi- 
ficant contributions to the marine sciences and has a nucleus of scien- 
tific competence and facilities that forms a sound basis for further 
contributions that we expect to make to this important national 
program. 
In our opinion, an important research program, in order to produce 
desirable results, should be as flexible and unrestricted as possible. 
This will permit such research to seek its logical conclusion and to be 
conducted without undue restrictions upon its operations and fiscal 
needs, which cannot be forecast accurately in advance. 
If favorable consideration is given to enactment of this bill, this 
Department suggests the following amendments: 
(1) Page 2, lines 10 and 11, strike out “rehabilitation of our com- 
mercial fisheries and utilization of’’, and insert in lieu thereof ‘‘con- 
servation and utilization of fishery and’’. 
This amendment is desirable, in our opinion, in order to permit 
consideration of marine sport fishery resources in connection with 
this program. The problems of managing the renewable resources, 
upon which both sport and commercial fisheries depend, are insepara- 
ble. 
(2) Page 3, line 4, strike out ‘‘or identical’. 
(3) Page 5, line 22, after the word ‘‘Fisheries,’’ insert “the Bureau 
of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, the Bureau of Mines,”’’. 
This amendment would have the effect of including in this particular 
provision all of the Bureaus of this Department that are particularly 
interested in oceanography. 
(4) Page 7, line 12, strike out the words ‘Bureau of Commercial 
Fisheries,’’ and insert in lieu thereof ‘““Department of the Interior,’’. 
The foregoing amendment is desirable in order to give appropriate 
representation to all phases of our activities including those of the 
Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and 
Wildlife, the Geological Survey, and the Bureau of Mines. 
(5) Page 9, lines 5 and 6, strike out the words ‘“‘Bureau of Mines 
and Bureau of Commercial Fisheries,’’. 
This amendment is desirable in order to make clear that the appro- 
priate agencies of this Department are within the scope of this 
authorization. 
(6) Page 10, revise lines 22 and 23 to read as follows: 
‘““(_h) Determine, wherever necessary to carry out the purposes 
of this Act and without regard to previous statutory limitations, the 
reserves of metals of industrial, commercial or monetary value and”’. 
This is a clarifying amendment designed to resolve any question that 
might arise concerning the extent of our research authority in this 
field. 
(7) Page 11, lines 12 and 13, strike out the words ‘“‘Bureau of Mines 
and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries,’’. 
This amendment is desirable for the reasons cited under our 
recommended amendment number 4. 
(8) Page 11, beginning with the colon on line 25, strike out the 
proviso which begins on that line and which ends with “annum” 
on page 12, line 3. 
We recommend this amendment because of the fact that funds 
needed to operate our research ships are requested and obtained in 
