Table 9--2.—Division of responsibilities for ocean activities among Federal agencies (continued) 
MONITORING AND SERVICES 
FISHERIES 
Commerce 
NOAA: fishery resource 
monitoring assessment and 
prediction, industry statistics, 
economic and marketing 
information 
Interior 
Fish and Wildlife Service: 
monitoring fish populations 
Bureau of Indian Affairs: fishery 
statistics and information 
related to Indian fishing rights 
COASTAL RESOURCES 
Commerce 
NOAA: coastal mapping, data 
on use of coastal region, 
coastal and ocean satellite 
imagery 
Defense 
Corps of Engineers: beach 
erosion, information, coastal 
use information, water levels 
in Great Lakes 
Interior 
USGS: coastal region resource 
information and monitoring, 
topographic mapping 
NASA 
Monitoring land resources 
OIL, GAS, AND MINERALS 
Energy 
Monitoring OCS oil and gas 
development 
Interior 
BLM: compile statistics on OCS 
oil and gas operations 
USGS: compile information on 
offshore minerals 
a armen cer ec TE TESS AE PF LE PETE RMI UIE TE ATED 
© The National Data Buoy Project from the De- 
partment of Transportation. 
In defining the role to be played by NOAA in 
oceanic affairs, the President’s memorandum cir- 
cumscribed the agency’s functions primarily to re- 
search and development: * 
% Kid, p. 8. 
ENVIRONMENT 
Commerce 
NOAA: Great Lakes data, ocean 
dumpsite survey and 
monitoring, environmental 
TRANSPORTATION 
Commerce 
NOAA: nautical chart service, 
marine weather forecasts 
and reports 
satellite service, environmental 
data and information services Defense 
Defense Mapping Agency: 
Interior nautical charts and sailing 
Fish and Wildlife Service: directions 
monitor construction activities 
on navigable waters Transportation 
Coast Guard: operation of 
EPA LORAN, radio beacons and 
Great Lakes water quality, navigation aids, publications, 
assessment of pollutants in oil spill. surveillance and 
estuaries and coastal waters monitoring, search and rescue, 
port safety/security 
NASA surveillance 
Remote sensing of . 
oceanographic features 
EDUCATION AND 
Smithsonian TRAINING 
Oceanographic and marine 
sorting centers Commerce 
NOAA: Sea Grant imarine 
SCIENCE AND advisory service 
TECHNOLOGY 
Commerce 
NOAA: ocean mapping 
investigations, data buoy system, 
for data sensing, atmospheric 
and oceanographic information, 
ocean circulation, structure and 
motion of ocean, environmental 
satellite service, oceanographic 
data center 
Defense 
Navy: bathymetric and 
geophysical measurements, 
tactical systems survey, 
hydrographic surveys 
“T expect that NOAA would exercise lead- 
ership in developing a national oceanic and 
atmospheric program of research and de- 
velopment. It would coordinate its own 
scientific and technical resources with the 
technical and operational capabilities cf 
other Government agencies and private 
institutions.” 
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