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accordance with established budgetary procedures. The proposed 
imposition by this bill of a fixed limitation for operating costs may 
very well prove to be unrealistic and unduly restrictive of the basic 
purpose of this proposed legislation in carrying out an effective research 
program. ‘Two million dollars annually are needed at present for 
operation of our existing fishery research vessels. According to our 
present plans, some of these vessels will be replaced by new vessels. 
These new vessels will require approximately $3.4 million per annum 
for operating expenses. Upon acquisition of the new vessels, our 
total annual operating costs of these vessels in the future probably 
will be no less than $5,400,000. 
(9) Page 12, line 23, beginning with the word ‘north”’ strike out 
the language of the bill up to and including the word ‘Lakes’ on 
page 13, line 2. 
This amendment is desirable, in our opinion, because the language 
in question, by referring to fisheries resources north of 15° north lati- 
tude, implies a restriction, which perhaps is not intended and which 
we believe is undesirable, concerning studies in the southern half of the 
Caribbean and in the Pacific south of Honduras. 
(10) Page 13, line 10, strike out the word “‘braking’”’ and substitute 
in lieu thereof the word ‘‘brackish’’. 
(11) Page 18, line 11, strike out “transportations”’ and insert in lieu 
thereof “transplantation”’. 
(12) Page 13, line 13, strike out “studies by the Bureau of Com- 
mercial Fisheries of the’’, and insert in lieu thereof “studies pursuant to 
this Act by the’’. 
While this amendment is desirable for purposes of clarification as 
indicated under proposed amendment number 7, we feel that such 
expenditures should be governed by established budgetary procedures 
without specific monetary limitation in view of the impracticability of 
forecasting accurately future needs for expenditures of this kind. 
(13) Page 13, line 19, strike out the colon after the word “products” 
and substitute in lieu thereof a period. Also, strike out the proviso 
that begins on line 19 and ends on line 2 of page 14, and substitute in 
leu of such proviso the following new subsection: 
“(f) In carrying out the provisions of this Act, the Secretary of the 
Interior may cooperate with existing institutions pursuant to agree- 
ments and by the issuance of grants to said institutions for continuing 
studies of matters relating to fisheries and for the investigation of 
mineral deposits on the ocean floor and mineral resources in the sea.”’ 
In view of the authority contained in subsection (a) of section 5, we 
believe the proviso that would be eliminated from the bill by this 
amendment is unnecessary. The proposed substitute language is 
desirable in the interest of clarification and in order to facilitate carry- 
ing out the prescribed functions by this Department. 
Because this proposed program of oceanography necessarily must 
be a flexible program, as we have suggested previously, the probably 
future cost of such program will necessarily depend upon the progress 
and the direction taken by the program as it develops. In the case 
of the Geological Survey of this Department, our present expenditures 
for this work aggregate some $600,000 annually. It is likely, of course, 
that these expenditures will be increased in an undetermined amount 
as the program develops. Similarly, we anticipate additional future 
expenditures for the work to be conducted by the Bureau of Mines in 
