4 MARINE SCIENCE 



for basic and applied research programs, tlie purchase of equipment, acquisition 

 or improvement of facilities, and for other uses necessary to carry out the work 

 hereunder. 



(b) Initiate and carry out a program for the replacement, modernization and 

 enlargement in the number of oceangoing ships being used for research, explora- 

 tion, surveying and the development of marine resources. 



(c) Construct and operate a sufficient number of shore facilities and labora- 

 tories to support effectively the vessels provided for under the preceding 

 item (b). 



(d) Cooperate with other departments and agencies in the conduct of ocean- 

 wide surveys from which data relative to the study of ocean resources may be 

 obtained. 



(e) Conduct studies concerning the relation of marine life to radioactive ele- 

 ments, such studies to be directed toward determining the effect of distribution 

 of radioactive elements in the sea on living marine organismsi, and other such 

 studies as the Secretary deems necesisary to understand and evaluate the rela- 

 tion of radioactivity to the inhabitants of the marine environment. 



(f) Conduct studies of the economical and legal aspects of commercial fish- 

 eries and the utilization of marine products. 



(g) Request and obtain cooperation from other governmental agencies having 

 an interest in the marine sciences, and cooperate with the iseveral States, educa- 

 tional institutions, laboratories devoted to fishery research, marine science, 

 oceanography, and with other public and private organizations and persons who 

 may be of assistance. 



(h) Determine the reserves of metals of industrial, commercial or monetary 

 value in or beneath adjacent waters, and to ascertain techniques and probable 

 costs of their recovery and extraction. 



(i) Take such action and carry out other activities which he finds will accom- 

 plish the purposes of this Act. 



Seo. 6. It is necessary in order to carry out the policies of S. Res. 136, Eighty- 

 sixth Ct>ngress, and of this Act to have the Department of the Interior and its 

 Bureaus and Offices carry out, under laws relating to such Department and its 

 Bureaus and Offices, specified duties as part of the general program for the 

 development of the marine sciences in the United States. Appropriations au- 

 thorized in this section shall be in addition to other appropriations provided for 

 such Department to carry out its duties under law. There is hereby authorized 

 to be appropriated to the Bureau of Mines and the Bureau of Commercial Fish- 

 eries, Department of the Interior, during the ten-year period beginning with July 

 1 of the first fiscal year following approval of this Act by the President, the 

 following sums: 



(a) Such sums as may be necessary for construction of new ships for fisheries 

 exploration and research: Provided, however. That in the construction of these 

 ships, modern fisheries exploration and research vessels of other nations shall 

 be studied with respect to design and performance with a view to increasing 

 the iseaworthiness, range, and efficiency of the United States fisheries research 

 fleet. 



(b) Such sums as necessary for operation of new fisheries research and explo- 

 ration ships: Provided, however. That operation costs for new research ships 

 placed in operation by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries not aggregate in 

 excess of $2,000,000 per annum : Provided further. That in planning operations 

 of the new research and exploration ships of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, 

 the Secretary of the Interior shall give full consideration to the needs for such 

 operation in the Gulf of Mexico, Bering Sea, other ocean areas of potential com- 

 mercial importance, and the Great Lakes. 



(c) Such sums as the departments deem adequate for capital expenditures 

 in inaugurating, developing, or expanding new ocean resource studies and sur- 

 veys, or constructing or procuring facilities for such studies including, but not 

 limited to, unmanned buoys for automatic continuous oceanographic records, 

 mesoscaphs for biological observations, automatic continuous plankton samplers, 

 oceanaria and instrumentation for studies of marine life behavior, laboratories 

 for research into marine survival, and establishment of an institute for research 

 on diseases of fish, shellfish, and other marine life: Provided, however. That in 

 constructing or procuring facilities for ocean resource studies, and in inaugurat- 

 ing such studies, full consideration be given to the fisheries resources of the 

 Pacific and Atlantic Oceans north of 40 degrees north latitude, between 15 

 degrees and 40 degrees north latitude, the Gulf of Mexico, Bering Sea, other 



