An Act To reorganize the executive branch of the Government and increase its economy and efficiency by establishing Offices of Inspector General within the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, the Interior, Labor, and Transportation, and within the Community Services Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the General Services Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Small Business Administration, and the Veterans' Administration, and for other purposes

Summary

In order to create independent and objective units: (1) to conduct and supervise audits and investigations relating to programs and operations of the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Labor, the Department of Transportation, the Community Services Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the General Services Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Small Business Administration, and the Veterans' Administration; (2) to provide leadership and coordination and recommend policies for activities; and (3) to provide a means for keeping the head of the establishment and Congress fully and currently informed about problems and deficiencies; there is established in each of such establishments an office of Inspector General. Provisions are set forth concerning: appointment and removal of officers; duties and responsibilities; semiannual reports; authority; employee complaints; transfer of functions; conforming and technical amendments; and definitions.

Subject

• United States Community Services Administration
• United States Environmental Protection Agency
• United States General Services Administration
• United States Inspector General Act of 1978
• Small Business Administration
• United States Dept. of Agriculture
• United States Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
• United States Dept. of the Interior
• United States Dept. of Labor
• United States Dept. of Transportation
• Veterans' Administration

Category

Smithsonian Legal Documents

Legal document information

• 92 Stat. 1101
• Title 05, Government Organization and Employees
• Public Law

Citation information

Statutes at Large

Notes

This Act may be cited as the "Inspector General Act of 1978".

Contained within

92 Stat. 1101 (1978); Pub. L. No. 95-452 (Book)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

• 1980
• 10/12/1978

Topic

• United States. Dept. of Commerce
• Executive departments
• Reorganization
• Investigations
• Executive departments--Reorganization

Form/Genre

Public Law

Physical description

Number of pages: 9; Page Numbers: 1101-09

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