ML20205K825
| ML20205K825 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 10/04/1989 |
| From: | Hayes B NRC OFFICE OF INVESTIGATIONS (OI) |
| To: | AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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| ML20205K777 | List: |
| References | |
| FOIA-98-361 NUDOCS 9904140023 | |
| Download: ML20205K825 (2) | |
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j D*' f.-y lo You asked me to furnish you a letter stating my views regarding the credibility under 5 U.S.C. 8336(c)(1) of-your NRC employment as an ,
investigatorintheOfficeofInspectionandEnforcement(IE)priortothe l establishmentoftheOfficeofInvestigations(01). You also have asked me ta !
conmient on why your position descriptions covering that period were not f varded to OPM in 1985 and 1986 when other similar position descriptions )
- e. Let me rnswer the latter first.
The omission of your documentation from the package we sent to OPM was '
inadvertent. The decision to solicit the documentation from the affected agents, and to submit it to OPh en masse was made at the All Hands Conference s in Arlingten, Texas, which you did not attend. Evidently, our project officer i for this effort failed to advise you of it, and I was not aware that you had not been informed. Clearly, your papemork should have been forwarded to OPM at that time. That leads me to the second point.
Although I was not at the NRC during the time that you were serving as an 1810 '
series investigator, I believe I have Sained a good understanding of what sort of investigations you and your cohorts were involved in. I have gained this understanding not only as a direct result of my having been Director,01, ,
since 1982, but on ry analysis of the program that preceded 01, as well as my review of the background and associated paperwork of the IE investigators who formed the nucleus of 01. For example:
Four of the five origimi 01 Field Office Directors, all of them GS-14-1811's, were appointed from the IE ranks.
The entire IE Headquarters investigative staff transferred to OI laterally as 1811's.
Most of the 01 field investigators came from the IE investitstive force.
All of this shows me thst you had carefully recruited and developed o.ualified 1811 series investigators irrespective of whether they were forced to serve for a period of time as 1810 series " investigations specialists." The fact that they were initially classified as 1810's is more an example of the lack of expertise in this specializej area on the pait of NRC personnel than it was any accurate depiction of-your attual duths. Evidently, OPM agreed with this
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assessment as they eventually certified the prior 1810 service of several former IE investigators. '
I am also aware that you were in charge of the IE investigative program from January to November 1979. My knowledge of this is based on conversations with other NRC senior inanagers and employees as well as some of the files that I have seen from that period, such as the Investigative Guidance Memoranda that you issued. I am similarly aware of your prior involvement with investigations throughout the earlier years as well.
In sum, based on iny knowledge and understanding of what IE investigators actually did, coupled with my awareness of your service as a manager of that ;
investigative 5 U.S.C. 8336(program, c)(1). PleaseI let believe thatifsuch me know I canservice should be of any beassistance further creditable under in this matter.
Sincerely,
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i Ben B. Hayes, Director Office of Investigations Distribution:
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