g MARINE SCIENCE 



Lydrographic surveys, and to supply, when available, ships designed for basic 

 research to nonprofit scientific institutions : Provided, That when ships are sup- 

 plied under this provision title to the ships shall remain with the United States 

 Government and the ships shall be reassigned or returned to Federal operation 

 upon termination of the grant or contract with the institution. 



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

 tories to support effectively the expanded program of basic oceauographic re- 

 search and hydrographic surveys authorized for the Department of the Navy 

 to undertake under this Act. 



(d) Develop, construct, or acquire new or improved vehicles for ocean re- 

 search and exploration, including but not limited to bathyscaphs and other 

 manned submersibles, icebreakers and submarines converted for scientific use, 

 seismic equipment, turbulence measuring devices, precision echo sounders, acous- 

 tic telemetering de^dces, and instruments for the study of the current structure 

 of the ocean, oceanic temperatures, bottom topography, sediments, heat flow 

 through the ocean bottom, sound transmission and velocities, ambient noise, 

 biological activity and specimens, and water samples for salinities, phosphates, 

 oxygen, nitrates, and other chemical or elemental components of the oceans. 



(e) Continue and expand the Navy's support of civilian oceauographic labora- 

 tories as proposed in project TENOC approved by the Chief of Naval Opera- 

 tions, and substantially similar to the recommendations made in the report of 

 the Committee on Oceanography of the National Academy of Sciences — National 

 Research Council. 



(f ) Establish with the National Science Foundation or the National Academy 

 of Sciences — National Research Council — a program of scholarships for selected 

 students beginning at the senior level in undergraduate school, and carrying 

 through with four years of graduate training and research in the marine 

 sciences : Provided, That the Department of the Navy may recommend to the 

 National Science Foundation the institutions qualified to participate in this 

 program. 



(g) Conduct a systematic and expanded program of three-dimensional ocean 

 surveys including measurements or studies of depths, salinity, temperature, 

 current velocity, wave motion, magnetism and biological activity. 



(h) Continue a policy of expanding assistance and support to existing civilian 

 laboratories and universities engaged in basic oceanographic research, foster the 

 establishment and growth of new civilian laboratories for applied oceanographic 

 research needed by the Navy. In the designation of new laboratories to receive 

 Navy assistance consideration shall be given to oceanographic location with ref- 

 erence to the oceans, with the object of maintaining a balanced program of 

 research in and adjacent to the seas and oceans bordering the United States. 



(i) Request and obtain cooperation from other governmental departments 

 and agencies having an interest in the marine sciences, and to cooperate with the 

 several States, with educational institutions, laboratories, and other public and 

 private organizations and persons who may be of assistance. 



Sec. 14. It is necessary in order to carry out the policies of S. Res. 136, 

 Eighty-sixth Congress, of this Act and of the Navy's long-range program for 

 oceanographic research known as TENOC to have the Department of the Navy 

 carry out, under laws relating to such Department, specified duties as part of 

 the general program for the development of the marine sciences in the United 

 States. Appropriations authorized 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 Department of the Navy, 

 during the ten-year period beginning with July 1 of the first fiscal year follow- 

 ing approval of this Act by the President, such sums as are necessary— 



for the construction of nine one thousand two hundred to one thousand 

 five hundred-ton displacement research ships : Provided, however, That not 

 more than two of these ships shall be built the first year of the program ; 

 two in the second year ; one in the third year ; t^^o in the fourth year, and 

 one in succeeding years of the program ; 



for the construction of four two thousand to three thousand- ton displace- 

 ment research ships : Provided, however. That not more than one such ship 

 shall be built in any one year of the ten-year program ; 



for the construction of two survey ships of approximately five hundred- 

 ton displacement ; 



for the construction of five survey ships of one thousand two hundred to 

 one thousand five hundred-tons displacement : Provided, however. That not 

 more than two of these survey ships shall be built in any one year ; 



