NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 
3. Some 19 percent of the effort will go to im- 
prove our ability to manage resources and control 
threats to health in the “world ocean” (11 per- 
cent basic included in (1) above, and 8 percent 
applied). Only 15 percent of the 1963 budget can 
be considered to serve this purpose. 
4. About 8 percent will go to discover and ex- 
ploit resources on and under the continental 
shelves and to protect the health of the U. S. pub- 
lic from coastal pollution and other poisons 
(two percent basic included in (1) above and six 
percent applied). In 1963 this figure is about six 
percent. 
5. Less than two percent will be applied to pro- 
tection of lives and property ashore and safety at 
sea. 
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6. About 12 percent will provide oceanographic 
services such as nonmilitary ocean surveys, data 
processing and archiving, and instrumentation 
calibration and standardization which benefit all 
members of the oceanographic community. This 
is a drop from the 20 percent figure in 1963. 
Although much can happen to modify these 
projections, as is explained in Chapter IV, these 
represent the desired balance of effort weighing 
need against manpower available and against op- 
portunities as viewed by the federal oceanographic 
community at the present time. In brief, emphasis 
in this National Plan is to be placed on private 
laboratories and universities, and on basic re- 
search, with exploitation for peaceful uses becom- 
ing increasingly a more prominent objective. 
