164 MARINE SCIENCE^ 



futherance of the purposes of this Act, such funds to be used for basic and ap- 

 plied research, the purchase of equipment,". 



Page 23, line 3, following "basic" insert ''and applied". This suggestion is 

 offered as being descriptive of existing authority. 



Page 23, lines 12 and 13, following "laboratories" substitute "and provide re- 

 lated instruments and equipment to support effectively the expended progi'am of 

 basic and applied oceanographic research and hydrographic". This suggestion is 

 for completeness and accuracy. 



Page 23, lines 17 and 18, change to read : "vehicles for ocean research and ex- 

 ploration, which may include but not be limited to bathyscaphs and other manned 

 submersibles,". 



Page 24, lines 3 and 4, change to read : "(e) Continue and expand the Navy's 

 support of marine studies substantially as proposed in project TENOC or the- 

 Navy's revised long range oceanography program". 



Pages 24 and 25, par. (h) and (i). As a positive means of implementing the 

 authority contained in these provisions, it is recommended that section 13 of S. 

 2692 include a provision to amend section 7394, title 10, United States Code, by 

 adding : 



"The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to furnish maps, charts, and other 

 publications and products of scientific value of the Hydrographic Office without 

 charge to educational institutions, laboratories, and other public and private 

 organizations and persons when it is determined that to furnish such mforma- 

 tion is in the national interest." 



Existing statutes are adequate to cover the furnishing of such information to 

 commercial interests but they are construed as making impossible the free 

 distribution of material of scientific value. 



Page 25, line 7, change to read: "(i) Request and obtain cooperation from and 

 cooperate with other govern — ". 



Pages 26, lines 1-20. It is recommended that the portion of this section relat- 

 ing to ship construction be worded in general terms similar to line 5, page 

 27, for the construction of new shore facilities. 



Page 27, line 5. Change to read : "for modernization, improvement, and ex- 

 pansion of existing shore facilities for basic research and for construction of 

 new shore facilities for basic". 



Page 27, line 8. Change to read: "for modernization, improveBient, and ex- 

 pansion of existing shore facilities for survey work and for construction of new 

 shore facilities for survey". 



Page 27, line 10. It is recommended that the following substitution be made 

 for the present language beginning on line 10 and extending through line 21. 

 The substitution is offered for consistency with authority granted elsewhere 

 in S. 2692 and in some instances reflects instrumentation already in use or in 

 research and development stages under the cognizance of the Department of 

 the Navy. 



"for engineering needs for ocean exploration and research which may include 

 bathyscaphs and other manned submersibles to be used for research, wave 

 measuring equipment, systems engineering for reduction of data, manned and 

 unmanned buoys for automatic continuous oceanographic recording, icebreakers 

 and submarines modified or converted for scientific use, vessel positioning sys- 

 tem, acoustical equipment and telemetering devices, current meters, measuring 

 devices for direct density, turbulence and radioactivity, and underwater tele- 

 vision, seismic equipment, automatic continuous biological sampling devices, 

 precision salinometers, precision echo sounders, towed temperature recorders, 

 magnetometers, and other instruments and laboratory equipment for oceanogra- 

 phic research ; and". 



This report has been coordinated within the Department of Defense in accord- 

 ance with procedures prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. 



The Department of the Navy has been advised by the Bureau of the Budget 

 that there is no objection to the submission of this report on S. 2692 to the 

 Congress. 



Sincerely yours, 



F. A. Bantz. 

 Uinder Secretary of the Navi/, 

 (For the Secretary of the Navy) . 



