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Budget Aspects
It is expected that the program will require a budget of approximately
$12 millions. The program is, however, nonrecurring in nature: a single
appropriation for the total program is contemplated, which will be expended
for the most part over a period of five fiscal years (1955-1959 inclusive),
,
but obligated for the most part in the coming fiscal year. By way of
example, a considerable amount of instrumentation and equipment must be
ordered in the coming fiscal year if the scientific program is to be begun
in calendar year 1957. An added consideration with respect to the timing
is the need for coordinating the various programs of the participating
nations, scheduled for October 1-4, 1954, in Rome. More than 20 nations
will then integrate the various programs; this will require rather definite
knowledge as to the technical contents of each program and as to the scope
of effort contemplated by each nation.
Federal Aspects
The need for Government support rests largely (1) on the nature of
the programe Concerned as it is with phenomena that affect our entire
civilian and defense economies and each and every citizen; (2) on the
traditional and Congressionally-recognized interest of the Government
in such problems as weather, communications, surveying and mapping,
and national defense; (3) on the magnitude of the program, which is
beyond the means of private interests; and (4) on the international
aspects which have been discussed above.
The participation and cooperation of a number of Federal agencies
has already been a matter of informal agreement in many instances.
The program as a whole is of particular interest to the Departments of
Defense and Commerce.
Several aspects characterize the nature of such cooperation. First,
the data now accumulated by such agencies as the Weather Bureau as part
of its current functions and responsibilities represent a background
desideratum of considerable value in the total effort. Second, the
special geophysical projects making up the new, non-recurring program
may in some instances best be given overall supervision by such agencies.
Third, in some instances existing field facilities of these agencies
in out-of-the-way places can be used.
One of the important remote regions in the U. S. program is the
Antarctic. The Intarctic requirements of the program envision the
establishment of a base at Little America and two satellite stations,
one at the geographic South Pole, the other at the suspected "source"
of Antarctic weather. Thile the scientific costs are to be presented
in the forthcoming budget, the expeditionary costs remain a subject for
additional exploration with the Department of Defense.
Other Cooperative Aspects
In the course of the preparation of the program by the National
Research Council, it has become apparent that a large number of private
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