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106TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 2013

To amend the Inspector General Act of 1978 to provide for the appointment

of the Inspector General of certain Federal agencies by the President

of the United States.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JUNE 7, 1999

Mr. DUNCAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the

Committee on Government Reform

A BILL

To amend the Inspector General Act of 1978 to provide

for the appointment of the Inspector General of certain

Federal agencies by the President of the United States.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. APPOINTMENT OF INSPECTOR GENERAL OF

4 CERTAIN FEDERAL AGENCIES BY THE PRESI5 DENT.

6 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 11 of the Inspector Gen7 eral Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended—

8 (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting after ‘‘the

9 Social Security Administration;’’ the following: ‘‘the
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1 person or persons designated by statute as the head

2 of, or, if no such designation exists, the chief policy3 making officer or board of, Amtrak, the Appalachian

4 Regional Commission, the Board of Governors of the

5 Federal Reserve System, the Board for International

6 Broadcasting, the Commodity Futures Trading

7 Commission, the Consumer Product Safety Commis8 sion, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the

9 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the

10 Farm Credit Administration, the Federal Commu11 nications Commission, the Federal Deposit Insur12 ance Corporation, the Federal Election Commission,

13 the Federal Housing Finance Board, the Federal

14 Labor Relations Authority, the Federal Maritime

15 Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the

16 Legal Services Corporation, the National Archives

17 and Records Administration, the National Credit

18 Union Administration, the National Endowment for

19 the Arts, the National Endowment for the Human20 ities, the National Labor Relations Board, the Na21 tional Science Foundation, the Panama Canal Com22 mission, the Peace Corps, the Pension Benefit Guar23 anty Corporation, the Securities and Exchange Com24 mission, the Smithsonian Institution, the Tennessee

25 Valley Authority, the United States International
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1 Trade Commission, and the United States Postal

2 Service; or, with respect to the National Science

3 Foundation, the National Science Board;’’; and

4 (2) in paragraph (2), by inserting after ‘‘the

5 Social Security Administration;’’ ‘‘Amtrak, the Ap6 palachian Regional Commission, the Board of Gov7 ernors of the Federal Reserve System, the Board for

8 International Broadcasting, the Commodity Futures

9 Trading Commission, the Consumer Product Safety

10 Commission, the Corporation for Public Broad11 casting, the Equal Employment Opportunity Com12 mission, the Farm Credit Administration, the Fed13 eral Communications Commission, the Federal De14 posit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Election

15 Commission, the Federal Housing Finance Board,

16 the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the Federal

17 Maritime Commission, the Federal Trade Commis18 sion, the Legal Services Corporation, the National

19 Archives and Records Administration, the National

20 Credit Union Administration, the National Endow21 ment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the

22 Humanities, the National Labor Relations Board,

23 the National Science Foundation, the Panama Canal

24 Commission, the Peace Corps, the Pension Benefit

25 Guaranty Corporation, the Securities and Exchange
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1 Commission, the Smithsonian Institution, the Ten2 nessee Valley Authority, the United States Inter3 national Trade Commission, or the United States

4 Postal Service’’.

5 SEC. 2. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.

6 (a) INSPECTOR GENERAL ACT OF 1978.—

7 (1) Section 4(b)(2) of the Inspector General Act

8 of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended—

9 (A) by striking ‘‘, Offices of Inspector Gen10 eral of designated Federal entities defined

11 under section 8F(a)(2),’’;

12 (B) by striking ‘‘, or the Office of Inspec13 tor General of each designated Federal entity

14 defined under section 8F(a)(2)’’; and

15 (C) by striking ‘‘8F(a)(1)’’ and inserting

16 ‘‘8G(a)(1)’’.

17 (2) Section 8G of such Act (5 U.S.C. App.), re18 lating to requirements for Federal entities and des19 ignated Federal entities, is amended—

20 (A) in the section heading, by striking

21 ‘‘AND DESIGNATED FEDERAL ENTITIES’’ and

22 inserting ‘‘AND CERTAIN ESTABLISHMENTS’’;

23 (B) by striking subsections (a)(1)(B),

24 (a)(2), (a)(4), (a)(5), (a)(6), (b), (c), (d), (e),

25 (g)(1), and (g)(2);
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1 (C) in subsection (g)(3)—

2 (i) by striking ‘‘Notwithstanding the

3 last sentence of subsection (d) of this sec4 tion, the’’ and inserting ‘‘The’’; and

5 (ii) by striking ‘‘8C’’ and inserting

6 ‘‘8D’’;

7 (D) in subsection (h)(1), by striking ‘‘and

8 designated Federal entities’’;

9 (E) by redesignating subsections (a)(1)(C),

10 (a)(1)(D), (a)(1)(E), (a)(1)(F), (a)(3), (f),

11 (g)(3), and (h) as subsections (a)(1)(B),

12 (a)(1)(C), (a)(1)(D), (a)(1)(E), (a)(2), (b), (c),

13 and (d), respectively;

14 (F) in subsection (a)(1)(E), as so redesig15 nated by subparagraph (F) of this paragraph,

16 by adding ‘‘and’’ at the end; and

17 (G) in subsection (a)(2), as so redesignated

18 by subparagraph (F) of this paragraph, by

19 striking ‘‘(h)(1)’’ and inserting ‘‘(d)(1)’’.

20 (3) Section 8I of such Act (5 U.S.C. App.), re21 lating to rule of construction of special provisions, is

22 amended by striking ‘‘or with respect to a des23 ignated Federal entity as defined under section

24 8F(a)’’.
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1 (b) ENERGY POLICY ACT OF 1992.—Section 160(a)

2 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 8262f(a))

3 is amended by striking ‘‘8E(f)(1)’’ and inserting

4 ‘‘8G(b)(1)’’.

5 SEC. 3. CONTINUATION OF SERVICE OF INSPECTORS GEN6 ERAL OF FORMER DESIGNATED FEDERAL EN7 TITIES.

8 An individual serving immediately before the enact9 ment of this Act as the Inspector General of a designated

10 Federal entity (as defined in section 8G(a)(2) of the In11 spector General Act of 1978, as in effect immediately be12 fore such enactment), that section 1 of this Act makes

13 an establishment under the Inspector General Act of

14 1978, may serve as the Inspector General of the establish15 ment, and may perform the functions of and exercise the

16 authorities of the Inspector General of the establishment,

17 until the appointment of the Inspector General of the es18 tablishment in accordance with the Inspector General Act

19 of 1978.

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