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B-135397 1 (1972-01-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobablcl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: REStRICTED - N A to be releassd etifldubt he @eners! F -C?'co xca1± cr, thD Lbass 0i ic rov by the Cdie. of Congrassaonai Reiatens, COMPTROLLER GENEA ~TEU1DA jpt 9:WASHIiNGTON, D.C. 20548 U~~tIE0 -K )C 3-135397 RELEASED Dear Senator Hart: LM090691 In response to your request of October 19, 1971, we have exawned into the inquiries contained in a letter to you from Miss Carolyn Berryman of the Hackley Public Library, Muskegon, Michigan. Specifically the letter raises questions concerning the publica-ion of the EASTROPAC Atlas by -the National Marine Fisheries Service (NM1FS) of the Na-tonal Oceanic and Atmo- spheric Adinistration (NOAA), Department of Comriercc. The atlas was published for use by the scientific public--profes- sional oceanoyraphers, marine chemists, and marine biolo- gists--to stimulate further research and to provide base data for that research. EASTROPAC is an international cooperative investigation of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean and is intended to pro- vide data necessary-or a mo*-re ceffective use of the marine resources of the area and to increase knowledge of ocean cir- culai~on, ar-sea interaction, and ecology. The fieldwork for EASTROPAC was perfo:med during the period February 1967 throluh Misri 196t'. NMFS. formerly the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries of the Department of the Interior, is the coordi- nating agency0 NOAA vas established on October 3, 1970, by consolidating the Environmental Science Services Administra- tion, Departmient of Commerce, with elements and programs of other Federal organizations, in accordance with the provi- sions of Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1970. In April 19658 the EASTROPAC Coordinating Committee of NMFS decided that the data obtained from the investigation were so numerous as to render typical data reports impracti- cable. Consequently the Committee decided that preliminary data processing and chart analysis would be performed by computer to save time and money and that a comprehensive 11- volume atlas of the results of physical and biological in- vestigations would beCpY'-dduced. The atlas does not contain raw data but contains only the charts derived from analyzed and refined data. The Committee also determined the size (16 in. by 21 in.) of the atlas and the type of binding. The size of the atlas and the type of the binding are designed so that individual pages may be removed for better comparative analysis. NOAA printed the EAS'ROPAC Atlas under its circular series because it did not have an established atlas series. Volume 4 was

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