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On July 8, 1996, Mr. Hubert T. Bell took the oath of office and
began his duties as the new Inspector General of the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission. Mr. Bell was nominated to fill this position by President
Clinton in April and was confirmed by the Senate in June.
Mr. Bell is a graduate of Alabama State University and a 29-year
veteran of the U.S. Secret Service. At the time of his nomination
for the NRC post, Mr. Bell was Executive Director of Work Force
Planning and Diversity Management for the Secret Service, and earlier
had been Assistant Director for the agency's Office of Inspection.
Other Secret Service assignments included those of Assistant Director
of the Office of Protective Operations; Deputy Assistant Director
of the Office of Investigations; Agent-in-Charge of the Vice Presidential
Protective Division; and Agent-in-Charge of the Honolulu, Hawaii
field office.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of the Inspector
General was established April 15, 1989, pursuant to Inspector General
Act Amendments contained in Public Law 100-504. The mission of
the NRC Inspector General, as spelled out in the Act is to: (1)
conduct and supervise independent audits and investigations of
agency programs and operations, (2) promote economy, effectiveness,
and efficiency within the agency, (3) prevent and detect fraud,
waste, and abuse in agency programs and operations, (4) review
and make recommendations regarding existing and proposed regulations
relating to agency programs and operations, and (5) keep the agency
head and Congress fully informed of problems in agency programs.
The Act also requires the IG to report to the NRC Chairman and
Congress semiannually on the results of OIG activities. |
