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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.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. APPOINTMENT OF INSPECTOR GENERAL OF
CERTAIN FEDERAL AGENCIES BY THE PRESI-
DENT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 11 of the Inspector Gen-
eral Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1), by inserting after ‘‘the
Social Security Administration;’’ the following: ‘‘the
person or persons designated by statute as the head
of, or, if no such designation exists, the chief policy-
making officer or board of, Amtrak, the Appalachian
Regional Commission, the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System, the Board for International
Broadcasting, the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, the Consumer Product Safety Commis-
sion, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the
Farm Credit Administration, the Federal Commu-
nications Commission, the Federal Deposit Insur-
ance Corporation, the Federal Election Commission,
the Federal Housing Finance Board, the Federal
Labor Relations Authority, the Federal Maritime
Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the
Legal Services Corporation, the National Archives
and Records Administration, the National Credit
Union Administration, the National Endowment for
the Arts, the National Endowment for the Human-
ities, the National Labor Relations Board, the Na-
tional Science Foundation, the Panama Canal Com-
mission, the Peace Corps, the Pension Benefit Guar-
anty Corporation, the Securities and Exchange Com-
mission, the Smithsonian Institution, the Tennessee
Valley Authority, the United States International
Trade Commission, and the United States Postal
Service; or, with respect to the National Science
Foundation, the National Science Board;’’; and
(2) in paragraph (2), by inserting after ‘‘the
Social Security Administration;’’ ‘‘Amtrak, the Ap-
palachian Regional Commission, the Board of Gov-
ernors of the Federal Reserve System, the Board for
International Broadcasting, the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, the Consumer Product Safety
Commission, the Corporation for Public Broad-
casting, the Equal Employment Opportunity Com-
mission, the Farm Credit Administration, the Fed-
eral Communications Commission, the Federal De-
posit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Election
Commission, the Federal Housing Finance Board,
the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the Federal
Maritime Commission, the Federal Trade Commis-
sion, the Legal Services Corporation, the National
Archives and Records Administration, the National
Credit Union Administration, the National Endow-
ment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the
Humanities, the National Labor Relations Board,
the National Science Foundation, the Panama Canal
Commission, the Peace Corps, the Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corporation, the Securities and Exchange
Commission, the Smithsonian Institution, the Ten-
nessee Valley Authority, the United States Inter-
national Trade Commission, or the United States
Postal Service’’.
SEC. 2. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.
(a) INSPECTOR GENERAL ACT OF 1978.—
(1) Section 4(b)(2) of the Inspector General Act
of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘, Offices of Inspector Gen-
eral of designated Federal entities defined
under section 8F(a)(2),’’;
(B) by striking ‘‘, or the Office of Inspec-
tor General of each designated Federal entity
defined under section 8F(a)(2)’’; and
(C) by striking ‘‘8F(a)(1)’’ and inserting
‘‘8G(a)(1)’’.
(2) Section 8G of such Act (5 U.S.C. App.), re-
lating to requirements for Federal entities and des-
ignated Federal entities, is amended—
(A) in the section heading, by striking
‘‘AND
DESIGNATED
FEDERAL
ENTITIES’’ and
inserting ‘‘AND CERTAIN ESTABLISHMENTS’’;
(B) by striking subsections (a)(1)(B),
(a)(2), (a)(4), (a)(5), (a)(6), (b), (c), (d), (e),
(g)(1), and (g)(2);
(C) in subsection (g)(3)—
(i) by striking ‘‘Notwithstanding the
last sentence of subsection (d) of this sec-
tion, the’’ and inserting ‘‘The’’; and
(ii) by striking ‘‘8C’’ and inserting
‘‘8D’’;
(D) in subsection (h)(1), by striking ‘‘and
designated Federal entities’’;
(E) by redesignating subsections (a)(1)(C),
(a)(1)(D), (a)(1)(E), (a)(1)(F), (a)(3), (f),
(g)(3), and (h) as subsections (a)(1)(B),
(a)(1)(C), (a)(1)(D), (a)(1)(E), (a)(2), (b), (c),
and (d), respectively;
(F) in subsection (a)(1)(E), as so redesig-
nated by subparagraph (F) of this paragraph,
by adding ‘‘and’’ at the end; and
(G) in subsection (a)(2), as so redesignated
by subparagraph (F) of this paragraph, by
striking ‘‘(h)(1)’’ and inserting ‘‘(d)(1)’’.
(3) Section 8I of such Act (5 U.S.C. App.), re-
lating to rule of construction of special provisions, is
amended by striking ‘‘or with respect to a des-
ignated Federal entity as defined under section
8F(a)’’.
(b) ENERGY POLICY ACT OF 1992.—Section 160(a)
of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 8262f(a))
is amended by striking ‘‘8E(f)(1)’’ and inserting
‘‘8G(b)(1)’’.
SEC. 3. CONTINUATION OF SERVICE OF INSPECTORS GEN-
ERAL OF FORMER DESIGNATED FEDERAL EN-
TITIES.
An individual serving immediately before the enact-
ment of this Act as the Inspector General of a designated
Federal entity (as defined in section 8G(a)(2) of the In-
spector General Act of 1978, as in effect immediately be-
fore such enactment), that section 1 of this Act makes
an establishment under the Inspector General Act of
1978, may serve as the Inspector General of the establish-
ment, and may perform the functions of and exercise the
authorities of the Inspector General of the establishment,
until the appointment of the Inspector General of the es-
tablishment in accordance with the Inspector General Act
of 1978.
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