8. The Smithsonian Institution's traditional interest in 
the taxonomy and distribution of marine organisms arises 
from its broad statutory responsibilities for the stimulation 
and diffusion of knowledge. The biological portion of the 
Ocean Survey Plan has been made responsive to this interest 
and will work closely with the Smithsonian's biological sort- 
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9. The Atomic Energy Commission and the Public Health 
Service are both concerned with the distribution and effects 
of radioactivity and other marine pollutants. The programs 
of these two agencies will utilize not only the ocean cur- 
rent data but also the results of the radioactivity sampling 
at oceanographic stations within the Ocean Survey Plan. 
10. The Beach Erosion Board of the Army Corps of Engineers 
will utilize data from the shelf portions of Ocean Surveys 
in their studies of coastal erosion and in locating off- 
shore sand bodies for beach replenishment, and the Maritime 
Administration will utilize wave data in their program for 
improved ship design. 
11. Ocean Surveys will provide data for use in basic oceano- 
praphwemrescarchestudvesn a inaparivteular the vangze-scaile 
scientific problems of the sea need large volumes of survey 
data for their solution, and it is toward the providing of 
these. data that the Ocean Survey Plan is also directed. The 
understanding of the large-scale dynamic processes affecting 
the distribution of the physical and chemical properties of 
