DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 



Coast & Geodetic Survey FT-62 $ 



FY-63 $ 

 To date, the contribution of the Coast and Geodetic Survey to this 

 research objective has been only as a reimbursable collector of data. 

 Under contract to the Atomic Energy Commission, the C&GS has carried 

 out several environmental studies off the Atlantic Coast; studies 

 involving currents, bottom topography, sediments and bottom-dwelling 

 organisms „ In the past the Coast Survey, at the request of the 

 Atomic Energy Commission and the Maritime Administration, carried 

 out an extensive study of the currents, temperature, and salinity 

 of New York Harbor to provide the basic information for estimating 

 the flushing time of radioactive contamination from the Harbor „ 

 Special sediment collections have been made for the Public Health 

 Service for use in their radioactivity surveillance program. 



During FY-1962, the PIONEER had aboard a radiochemist from the Scripps 

 Institution of Oceanography who was carrying out sampling and concentration 

 operations as part of a study of the distribution of Cesium-137 in the 

 North Pacific. Cooperative endeavors of this type will continue in FY-1963. 



In FY-63 the C&GS obtained one small vessel specifically for shallow 

 water and estuarine circulatory surveys „ In FY-63 this ship will be 

 used in Charleston Harbor in an extensive study of the current regime, 

 and the resulting studies will provide information of use in this 

 research objective. 



DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR 



Bureau of Commercial Fisheries FY-62 $100,000 



FY-63 $101,000 

 Radioactivity - The Bureau of Commercial Fisheries has conducted 

 research in cooperation with the Atomic Energy Commission for more than 

 10 years at the Beaufort, North Carolina laboratory. This research is 

 providing information on the accumulation of radioactivity by marine 

 species and the effect of this accumulation upon the well-being of the 

 species. This is a continuing program providing basic information which 

 can be used to evaluate the hazards of various levels of radioactivity 

 upon food fish products „ It is expected that research, which until now 

 has been in the laboratory, will be expanded to consider results in 

 small enclosed pools or tanks „ 



In 1961, the Bureau began a cooperative study with Public Health Service 

 on the distribution of radioactive substances in the estuary of the 

 Savannah River in Georgia. The Bureau's part of this project has been 

 to supply a marine biologist to assist in planning and carrying out field 

 sampling to develop satisfactory procedures for monitoring levels of 

 radioactivity in streams. Funds for this project were supplied by the 

 Division of Radiological Health of the Public Health Service. 



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