Service (ITS), it is sponsoring the program SEA ECHO to monitor dis- 

 tant sea conditions in the North Pacific using OTH; the Gulf of 

 Alaska is the first SEA ECHO study area. 



NARL, sometimes called ARL, is owned by ONR and managed by the Uni- 

 versity of Alaska (UAL). Its projects include the Arctic Research 

 in Environmental Acoustics (AREA) program. It is responsible for the 

 Arctic Research Laboratory Ice Station (ARLIS), an ice island used 

 as a drifting platform to study ice drift and deformation processes. 



NORDA's programs include the Synthetic Bathymetric Profiling System 

 (SYNBAPS) and the Long Range Acoustic Propagation Project (LRAPP). 



399. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: DOE 



Established in 1977, DOE succeeded to the activities of the 

 former Federal Engergy Administration (FEA), the Federal Power Com- 

 mission (FPC), and the Energy Research and Development Administration 

 (ERDA). ERDA, created in 1975 when the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) 

 was disbanded, succeeded to AEC's research and development activities. 



Its responsibilities include the development of alternate energy 

 sources such as Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) and Wind Energy 

 Conversion System (WECS). 



It is concerned with environmental safety of energy-producing 

 facilities in the coastal zone and offshore sites and reviews Environ- 

 mental Impact Statements (EIS) relating to the proposed sites. It 

 supports research and development activities on energy-related pollu- 

 tants, and its predecessor, the AEC, designed the Deep Water Isotopic 

 Current Analyzer (DWICA) to use radioactivity to analyze currents. 



DOE sponsors the National Energy Information Center (NEIC), the 

 National Environmental Research Parks (NERP) (the Savannah River 

 NERP assesses environmental impacts of nuclear fuel processing at 

 DOE installations); the National Biomonitoring Inventory Program 

 (NBIP), a collection of data files containing biological monitoring 

 information; the Energy Research and Development Inventory (ERDI), a 

 data base with descriptions of current energy research and develop- 

 ment programs; and the Mid-Pacific Marine Laboratory (MPML), formerly 

 the Eniwetok Marine Biological Laboratory (EMBL) established by AEC 

 in 1954. 



400. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE: HEW 



Two of the agencies in HEW have some interests for the marine 

 scientist; one is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which ad- 

 ministers the National Shellfish Sanitation Program (NSSP) established 

 in 1925 as a voluntary cooperative program of Federal, State, and 

 industry representatives whose purpose is the prevention of disease 

 from eating unsafe shellfish. The Public Health Service (PHS) is 

 concerned with the overall health aspects of river, estuarine, and 

 coastal projects, sanitation in recreation areas, such as beaches, 

 and in shellfish-growing areas. 



401. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR: DOI 



The Nation's principal conservation agency, DOI is responsible 

 for most of its nationally owned public lands and its natural resour- 

 ces. This includes fostering the wisest use of land and water resour- 

 ces, protecting fish and wildlife, preserving environmental and 

 cultural values of public lands, and providing for outdoor recreation. 

 It also assesses energy and mineral resources to assure that their 

 development is in the best interest of all people. 



Included among the departmental offices is an Ocean Mining Admin- 

 istration, established in 1975 to be responsible for developing 

 policy concerning the promotion and continuation of domestic ocean- 



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