Press Release-96-096, New NRC Inspector General Begins Duties
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| Issue date: | 07/08/1996 |
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United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Public Affairs Washington, DC 20555 Phone 301-415-8200 Fax 301-415-2234 Internet:opa@nrc.gov Home Page:www.nrc.gov/OPA/
No. 96-96 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Monday, July 8, 1996)
NEW NRC INSPECTOR GENERAL BEGINS DUTIES Hubert T. Bell Jr. has begun his duties as the new Inspector General of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Mr. Bell was administered the oath of office today by NRC Chairman Shirley Ann Jackson.
Others present at the private ceremony included NRC Commissioners Kenneth C. Rogers and Greta J. Dicus; senior NRC staff executives; Mr. Bell's wife, Satwant; their four children, Nayoja, Nileah, Andrew and Anthony; and his sister-in-law, Prem Kaur.
A graduate of Alabama State University and a 28-year veteran of the Secret Service, Mr. Bell was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate.
He succeeds David Williams, who was named last year as Inspector General of the Social Security Administration.
Leo J. Norton Jr., who has been acting NRC Inspector General, recently retired from Federal 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 of 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.