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The Office of the Inspector General recognizes the benefits resulting from proactive education and periodically publishes guidance to NRC employees on fraud, waste, and abuse issues. The goal of these educational efforts is to increase employee understanding of OIG’s role in ensuring the effectiveness of NRC’s programs and operations.

On this page:

• Pamphlets
• Semiannual Reports to Congress
• Fraud Bulletins/Information Digest

See also OIG Reports.

Pamphlets

• The IG at the NRC: This pamphlet contains information about the OIG organization and its policies and procedures. In addition to describing the OIG mission and functions, it discusses policy direction and initiatives intended to foster an atmosphere of trust and openness between the OIG and NRC employees.

• Fraud Awareness: The NRC OIG Fraud Awareness Program was established to educate NRC employees about Federal statutes and regulations applicable to fraud, inform them about common schemes used to perpetrate fraud, and advise them of reporting obligations so that they can fulfill their obligations as government employees. This pamphlet is part of OIG’s ongoing efforts to educate, inform, and support NRC employees in avoiding and preventing fraud and abuse.

Semiannual Report to Congress

Semiannual summaries about the activities of the OIG

In accordance with requirements of the IG Act, the semiannual report is a document prepared by each IG that summarizes the activities of that OIG during the six-month periods ending March 31 and September 30. The report is submitted to the head of the agency no later than April 30 and October 31 of each year. The agency may comment on the report but may not change it. The Chairman provides any agency remarks on OIG's report in NRC's Annual Accountability Report to Congress.

Items included in the reports are as follows:

1. Description of significant problems, abuses, and deficiencies relating to the administration of the NRC's programs and operation.

2. Audit recommendations for corrective action.

3. Significant audit recommendations described in previous reports for which the agency has not completed corrective action.

4. Matters referred to prospective authorities and the results of those prosecutions.

5. Selected Regulatory Commentary summaries and agency response.

6. Statistical tables demonstrating the dollar results of the OIG's internal program audits and contract audits performed during the reporting period.

The report may also include special feature articles concerning relevant topics.

Fraud Bulletin/Information Digest

Case examples of fraud against the government.

The OIG Fraud Bulletin provides NRC employees with case examples from across the OIG community on the extent to which unscrupulous individuals and contractors will go to perpetrate fraud against the government. The majority of the case examples show that the fraud schemes were detected by conscientious government employees who displayed a questioning attitude and were willing to look behind the paper.

The Fraud Bulletin also offers helpful suggestions to the public to protect themselves from identity theft and other instances of fraud that can be perpetrated against them.

The Fraud Bulletin was renamed Information Digest effective with the August 2003 edition.

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