Table 7 (Continued) 



Abbreviations 



PHS = Public Health Service 



BCF = Bureau of Commercial Fisherie s 



BSF&W = Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife 



USN = United States Navy 



ESSA = Environmental Sciences Services Administration 



Bu. Mines = Bureau of Mines 



Source: Appendix F , Marine Science A ffairs, 1 968. 



USGS = U.S. Geological Survey 



CERC = Coastal Engineering Research Center 



SOSC = Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center 



NODC = National Oceanographic Data Center 



CGOU = Coast Guard Oceanographic Unit 



FWPCA = Federal Water Pollution Control Administration 



USCE = U.S. Corps of Engineers 



The Federal Government has established special 

 committees to coordinate and plan the total 

 National marine science effort. Until the formation 

 of the Marine Council, the mechanism was the 

 Interagency Committee on Oceanography of the 

 Federal Council for Science and Technology. The 

 Interagency Committee on Oceanography and, 

 more recently, the Marine Council have made 

 serious attempts to formulate and put in being a 

 National oceanographic program. 



The Interagency Committee on Oceanography 

 mechanism was effective for the exchange of 

 information but seriously defective in devising and 

 implementing a coherent National program.. Part of 



the trouble lay within the mechanism itself: its 

 member agencies frequently sought to insure that 

 their own activities were not compromised by 

 committee action. The defects stemming from 

 outside were the judgment of oceanographic pro- 

 grams in the parent department's priority se- 

 quence; it meant that agency commitments and 

 interests, when placed in a departmental decision 

 framework, changed in the departmental budget 

 process. 



However, by far the most serious defect was the 

 fact that each agency was responsible to a dif- 

 ferent Congressional appropriations committee. 

 Program coherence could not be maintained 



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