Reinventing federal program oversight : the Inspector General concept, the U.S. Office of the Federal Inspector and the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System

This thesis is a comprehensive history of the U.S. Office of the Federal Inspector for the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, the events leading up to the Office's establishment, and the System itself. (This office, established in 1979, reduced to limited staff between 1985 and 1992, and...

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Main Author: Kling, David J.
Document Type: Thesis
Date:1996
Bills/Acts; Orders; Treaties:Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Act of 1976 (ANGTA)

Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1979
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Contents:
  • Strategies for controlling the bureaucracy : the emergence and evolution of the Inspector General Office
  • The Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline System
  • Choosing among gas projects : the ANGTS political battle
  • Reinvention as an idea : Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1979
  • Organization reinvention : the origins of the Office of the Federal Inspector
  • Reinvention through an operating philosophy : the OFI character
  • Reinvention by regulatory review and oversight : innovative ANGTS certification and pre-construction activity
  • Reinvention in the field : the ANGTS east leg experience
  • The potential consequences of reinvention : the NEICo anti-trust issue
  • ANGTS angst : suspension of the ANGTS Alaska leg
  • Assessing the Federal Inspector approach.