Omega-Position Location Equipment, satellite communi- 

 cations, 11-45 

 "operations research," cost-benefit/systems studies, 11-65 

 OPLE (.see Omega-Position Locating Equipment) 

 Optimum Tract Ship Routing Federal agencies, 11-17 

 Optional protocol 



disputes, settlement, Vlll-15 

 fishery organizations, international, VllI-67 

 International Registry Authority, VlII-34 

 Oregon, legal scheme for exploration and exploitation of 



mineral resources, VIl-119 

 Oregon State University, 1-1 8 

 Organic chemicals, pollutants, 111-51 

 Organization of American States, Food and Agriculture 



Organization, functions, VIII-67 

 Organizational structure 

 International 



Commission on Marine Geology, 1-58 



Food and Agriculture Organization, 1-58 



lAMAP, 1-58 



Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, 



U.N., 1-58 

 International Association of Biological Oceano- 

 graphy, 1-58 

 International Association of Physical Oceano- 

 graphy, resolution, 1-58 

 International Decade of Ocean Exploration, 1-58 

 International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, 



1-58 

 International Union of Marine Sciences (lUMS), 



1-58 

 Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research, 1-58 

 separate treaty organization, 1-58 

 recommendation, 1-58-61 

 Organizational structure of marine science 



Federal organizations. National Science Foundation, 

 I-IO, 45 

 block funding, 1-9, 57 

 facility support, I-IO, 57-58 

 funding support 



balance between in-house and out-of-house basic 



research, I-IO, 59 

 engineering development, 1-44 

 facility support, 1-59 

 institutional grants, 1-59 



research, "discipline" and "problem" oriented, 1-59 

 ship funding 



operations' cost, 1-6 1 

 operations' provisions, 1-61 

 regional fleets, 1-61 

 Osmosis, fresh water conversion 

 conventional reverse, VII-225 

 membrane phenomena, VII-224 

 thin chaimel reverse, VII-225 

 OSW (see Office of Saline Water) 

 OTSR (see Optimum Tract Ship Routing) 

 Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission 

 (ORRRC) 

 demand for recreation, VII-238-240 

 Land and Water Conservation Fund, VII-242-243 



potential recreation areas, Vn-241-242 



recommendation for planning, Vll-248 



scope of recreation, Vll-236-237 

 Outer Continental Shelf 



Geological Survey, 111-85-86 



jurisdictions, 111-9 

 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, III-5, 134 



1953 



general, VII-114-118, 215 

 terms, V-1 5-1 7 



Bureau of Land Management, 111-88 



investment, private, VllI-31 



navigation, 111-27-28 

 Overstreet, location of valuable minerals, VII-103-104 

 OWRR (see Office of Water Resources Research) 

 Oxidation-reduction potential, Vl-66 

 Oxman, Bernard H., VIIl-1 

 Oyster shell, mining, marine, III-25 



Pacific Halibut Commission, International (see Preserva- 

 tion of Halibut Fishery of Northern Pacific Ocean 

 and Bering Sea, convention between United States 

 and Canada) 

 Pacific Missile Range, undersea systems, VI-84 

 Palomares recovery, salvage and recovery, VI-98 

 Panel on International Programs and International Coop- 

 erative Organizations (PIPICO), 11-58 

 Panel on Oceanography, II-8, 1 1 

 Panel on the World Food Supply, 1-29 

 Party for Rational Utilization of Tuna Resources in the 

 Atlantic Ocean, International Convention for the 

 Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, VIII-1 26 

 Pesticides, pollutants, ni-51 

 Pests, proUferation 

 alewives 



Great Lakes, III-46 

 predator, Coho salmon, III-46 

 WeUand Canal, III-46 

 Eurasian Milfoil 

 replacements 



sea lettuce, III-47 

 water chestnuts, III-47 

 Rivers and Harbors Act of 1965, III-48 

 jellyfish 



Portuguese man-of-war, III-45 

 sea nettle, III-45 

 University of Maryland, III-47 

 water hyacinths, III-47 

 Petroleum industry 



environmental prediction, V-25-26 

 lease sales 



deep water, V-25 

 timing of Federal, V-24-25 

 multiple use conflicts, V-26-27 

 oil economics, V-24 

 oil investment, V-22-24 

 oil production, V-22 

 oil spills, V-27 



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