page_title: Nuclear Regulatory Commission
section_title: Organization
hierarchical_section_title: Nuclear Regulatory Commission / Organization
caption_attribution_description: NRC Organizational Chart - February 2019 Visit the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's website at &lt;a href="http://www.nrc.gov/" rel="noreferrer nofollow"&gt;www.nrc.gov/&lt;/a&gt;. To comment on this photo go to public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/category/flickr-comments/. Photo Usage Guidelines: &lt;a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/nrcgov/"&gt;www.flickr.com/people/nrcgov/&lt;/a&gt; Privacy Policy: &lt;a href="http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/privacy.html" rel="noreferrer nofollow"&gt;www.nrc.gov/site-help/privacy.html&lt;/a&gt;.
context_page_description: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with protecting public health and safety related to nuclear energy. Established by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, the NRC began operations on January 19, 1975, as one of two successor agencies to the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Its functions include overseeing reactor safety and security, administering reactor licensing and renewal, licensing radioactive materials, radionuclide safety, and managing the storage, security, recycling, and disposal of spent fuel.
context_section_description: The NRC consists of the commission on the one hand and offices of the executive director for Operations on the other.
  The commission is divided into two committees (Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards and Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses of Isotopes) and one Board, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, as well as eight commission staff offices (Office of Commission Appellate Adjudication, Office of Congressional Affairs, Office of the General Counsel, Office of International Programs, Office of Public Affairs, Office of the Secretary, Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Office of the Executive Director for Operations).
  Kristine Svinicki is the chairman of the NRC. There are altogether 17 Executive Director for Operations offices: Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management Programs,
  Office of New Reactors, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, Office of Enforcement, which investigates reports by nuclear power whistleblowers, specifically the Allegations Program, Office of Investigations, Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response, Region I, Region II, Region III, Region IV, Office of Information Services, Computer Security Office, Office of Administration, Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer, and Office of Small Business and Civil Rights.
  Of these operations offices, NRC's major program components are the first five offices mentioned above.
  NRC's proposed FY 2015 budget is $1,059.5 million, with 3,895.9 full-time equivalents (FTE), 90 percent of which is recovered by fees. This is an increase of $3.6 million, including 65.1 FTE, compared to FY 2014.
  NRC headquarters offices are located in unincorporated North Bethesda, Maryland (although the mailing address for two of the three main buildings in the complex list the city as Rockville, MD), and there are four regional offices.
caption: NRC Organizational Chart in February 2019
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