MARINE SCIENCE 5 



ocean areas of potential commercial value, and the Great Lakes, and that such 

 facilities be located where they may provide maximum benefits to Mshermen and 

 other citizens residing in the United States. 



(d) Such sums as are necessai-y lor operations, excluding ship operations, of 

 fisheries resource studies including, but not limited to, those stated above in 

 (c) marine population sampling, biological surveys, ecological mapping, taxo- 

 nomic develoiiment, genetics of marine oi-ganisms, pond fish culture and braking 

 •w'dter farming, estuarine studies, transportations and nutrient increase research : 

 Provided, hotccrcr, That expenditures for operaticms of new resources studies l)iy 

 the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries of the Department of the Interior not exceed 

 $10,000,000 per annum. 



(e) The sum of $6,500,000 for continuing studies over a ten-year period of utili- 

 zation of marine products for human consumption, animal feeds, industrijil pur- 

 poses, fertilizers and organic chemicals, and the development of new uses of 

 marine products : Provided, however, That in directing these studies the Secre- 

 tary of the Interior shall give full consideration to their being carried on in 

 existing institutions through the issuance of grants to said institutions, for 

 continuing studies over a ten-year period of the economics and law of commercial 

 fisheries and for the investigation of the mineral deposits on the ocean floor and 

 mineral resources in the sea. 



DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 



Sec. 7. The Secretary of Commerce is authorized and directed, wath such 

 funds as may be appropriated or otherwise made available to him, to under- 

 take a ten-year program of study and research as part of the general program 

 for the development of the marine sciences in the United States. In further- 

 ance of the purposes of this Act, the Secretary is authorized and directed to 

 carry out the following activities : 



(a) Request and obtain cooperation from other Government agencies having 

 an interest in the marine sciences and ocean surveys, and cooperate with edu- 

 cational institutions and laboratories devoted to the marine sciences and ocean- 

 ography, and with other public and private organizations and persons who may- 

 be of assistance. 



(b) Establish within the Department of Commerce a National Oceanographic 

 Records Center, which records center shall collect from other agencies and 

 departments of the Federal Government, agencies of the several States, ocean- 

 ographic institutions and laboratories and other sources all oceanographic data, 

 and prepare and disseminate such oceanographic data for public use. 



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

 enlargement in the number of oceangoing ships for use in ocean and coastal 

 surveys by the Coast and Geodetic Survey. 



(d) Construct and operate a sufficient number of Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey shore facilities to support effectively the vessels provided for under 

 the preceding item (a), and provide instruments and equipment essential for 

 efficient utilization of such shore facilities or survey ships. 



(e) Inaugurate in the Weather Bureau a comprehensive ten-year study of 

 the interchange of energy between the oceans and the atmosphere, and to pre- 

 pare, based on such study, climatological maps illustrating the balance of in- 

 coming and outgoing radiation and heat exchange between the oceans and the 

 atmosphere. The provisions of this subsection (e) may be carried out by 

 means of contracts with public or private organizations, or by grants to scientific 

 institutions carrying on such studies. 



(f ) Require that the Maritime Administration construct ships of approximately 

 five hundred tons and one thousand two hundred to one thousand five hundred 

 tons displacement specifically designed for basic oceanographic research with 

 due attention given to suitable arrangements of laboratory space and living 

 quarters for scientists, space and power for winches and other auxiliaries, sea 

 keeping and handling qualities at low speeds, quiet operation, efficient and eco- 

 nomical scientist-crew ratios, and operation in all kinds of weather, such shii)s, 

 when completed, to be made available, at the discretion of the Secretary, to 

 nonprofit oceanographic research centers, to other agencies of the Federal Gov- 

 ernment, or, pursuant to negotiated contracts or grants, to State institutions 

 engaged to oceanographic research requiring oceangoing scientific ships, with 

 preference given to such institutions which have engaged in such research prior 

 to this Act 



