make such payments as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. (b)(1) Upon request of an Inspector General for information or assistance under subsection (a)(3), the head of any Federal agency involved shall, insofar as is practicable and not in contravention of any existing statutory restriction or regulation of the Federal agency from which the information is requested, furnish to such Inspector General, or to an authorized designee, such information or assistance. (2) Whenever information or assistance requested under subsection (a)(1) or (a)(3) is, in the judgment of an Inspector General, unreasonably refused or not provided, the Inspector General shall report the circumstances to the head of the establishment involved without delay. (c) Each head of an establishment shall provide the Office within such establishment with appropriate and adequate office space at central and field office locations of such establishment, together with such equipment, office supplies, and communications facilities and services as may be necessary for the operation of such offices, and shall provide necessary maintenance services for such offices and the equipment and facilities located therein EMPLOYEE COMPLAINTS SEC. 7. (a) The Inspector General may receive and investigate complaints or information from an employee of the establishment concerning the possible existence of an acitivity constituting a violation of law, rules, or regulations, or mismanagement, gross waste of funds, abuse of authority or a substantial and specific danger to the public health and safety. (b) The Inspector General shall not, after receipt of a complaint or information from an employee, disclose the identity of the employee without the consent of the employee, unless the Inspector General determines such disclosure is unavoidable during the course of the investigation. (c) Any employee who has authority to take, direct others to take, recommend, or approve any personnel action, shall not, with respect to such authority, take or threaten to take any action against any employee as a reprisal for making a complaint or disclosing information to an Inspector General, unless the complaint was made or the information disclosed with the knowledge that it was false or with willful disregard for its truth or falsity. TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS SEC. 9. (a) There shall be transferred- (A) of the Department of Agriculture, the offices of that department referred to as the "Office of Investigation" and the "Office of Audit"; (B) of the Department of Commerce, the offices of that department referred to as the "Office of Audits" and the "Investigations and Inspections Staff" and that portion of the office referred to as the "Office of Investigations and Security" which has responsibility for investigation of alleged criminal violations and program abuse; (C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the office of that department referred to as the "Office of Inspector General"; (D) of the Department of the Interior, the office of that department referred to as the "Office of Audit and Investigation"; (E) of the Department of Labor, the office of that department referred to as the "Office of Special Investigations"; (F) of the Department of Transportation, the offices of that department referred to as the "Office of Investigations and Security" and the "Office of Audit" of the Department, the "Offices of Investigations and Security, Federal Aviation Administration", and "External Audit Divisions, Federal Aviation Administration", the "Investigations Division and The External Audit Division of the Office of Program Review and Investigation, Federal Highway Administration", and the "Office of Program Audits, Urban Mass Transportation Administration"; (G) of the Community Services Administration, the of fices of that agency referred to as the "Inspections Division", the "External Audit Division", and the "Internal Audit Division"; (H) of the Environmental Protection Agency, the offices of the agency referred to as the "Office of Audit" and the "Security and Inspection Division"; (I) of the General Services Administration, the offices of that agency referred to as the "Office of Audits" and the "Office of Investigations"; (J) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the offices of that agency referred to as the "Management Audit Office" and the "Office of Inspections and Security"; (K) of the Small Business Administration, the office of that agency referred to as the "Office of Audits and Investigations"; and (L) of the Veterans' Administration, the offices of that agency referred to as the "Office of Audits" and the "Office of Investigations"; and (2) such other offices or agencies, or functions, powers, or duties thereof, as the head of the establishment involved may determine are properly related to the functions of the Office and would, if so transferred, further the purposes of this Act, except that there shall not be transferred to an Inspector General under paragraph (2) program operating responsibilities. (b) The personnel, asset, liabilities, contracts, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, authorizations, allocations, and other funds employed, held, used, arising from, available or to be made available, of any office or agency the functions, powers, and duties of which are transferred under subsection (a) are hereby transferred to the applicable Office of Inspector General. (c) Personnel transferred pursuant to subsection (b) shall be transferred in accordance with applicable laws and regulations relating to the transfer of functions except that the classification and compensation of such personnel shall not be reduced for one year after such transfer (d) In any case where all the functions, powers, and duties of any office or agency are transferred pursuant to this subsection, such office or agency shall lapse. Any person who, on the effective date of this Act, held a position compensated in accordance with the General Schedule, and who, without a break in service, is appointed in an Office of Inspector General to a position having duties comparable to those performed immediately preceding such appointment shall continue to be compensated in the new position at not less than the rate provided for the previous position, for the duration of service in the new position. CONFORMING AND TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS SEC. 10. (a) Section 5315 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraphs: "(122) Inspector General, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. "(123) Inspector General, Department of Agriculture. "(124) Inspector General, Department of Housing and Urban Development. "(125) Inspector General, Department of Labor. "(126) Inspector General, Department of Transportation. (b) Section 5316 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraphs: "(144) Deputy Inspector General, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. "(145) Inspector General, Department of Commerce. "(146) Inspector General, Department of the Interior. "(147) Inspector General, Community Services Administration. "(148) Inspector General, Environmental Protection Agency. "(149) Inspector General, General Services Administration. "(150) Inspector General, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "(151) Inspector General, Small Business Administration.". (c) Section 202(e) of the Act of October 15, 1976 (Public Law 94505, 42 U.S.C. 3522), is amended by striking out "section 6(a)(1)" and "section 6(a)(2)" and inserting in lieu thereof "section 206(a)(1)" and "section 206(a)(2)", respectively. DEFINITIONS SEC. 11. As used in this Act (1) the term "head of the establishment" means the Secretary of Agriculture, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, the Interior, Labor, or Transportation or the Administrator of Community Services Environmental Protection, General Services, National Aeronautics and Space, Small Business, or Veterans' Affairs, as the case may be; (2) the term "establishment" means the Department of Agriculture, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, the Interior, Labor, or Transportation or the Community Service Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the General Services Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Small Business Administration, or the Veterans' Administration, as the case may be; (3) the term "Inspector General" means the Inspector General of an establishment; (4) the term "Office" means the Office of Inspector General of an establishment; and (5) the term "Federal agency" means an agency as defined in section 552(e) of title 5 (including an establishment as defined in paragraph (2)), United States Code, but shall not be construed to include the General Accounting Office. EFFECTIVE DATE SEC. 12. The provisions of this Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect October 1, 1978. Approved October 12, 1978. SPECIAL ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER FOR COOPERATIVE SEC. 102. HOUSING EXCERPTS FROM HOUSING AMENDMENTS OF 1955 [Public Law 345, 84th Cong.; 69 Stat. 636; 12 U.S.C. 1715e] (h) In the performance of, and with respect to, the functions powers, and duties vested in him by section 213 of the National Housing Act, section 221(d)(3), section 235, section 236, section 241, section 243, section 246, and section 203(n) of the National Housing Act, and section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 or section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (insofar as the provisions of such sections relate to cooperative housing), the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, shall appoint a Special Assistant for Cooperative Housing, and provide the Special Assistant with adequate staff, whose sole responsibility will be to expedite operations under such sections and to eliminate obstacles to the full utilization of such sections under the direction and supervision of the Commissioner and Assistant Secretary for Housing Management. The person so appointed shall be fully sympathetic with the purposes of such sections. Approved August 11, 1955. |