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Investigations
The NRC Investigations Program supports the NRC’s overall safety mission
in protecting the public health and the environment by ensuring that allegations
or NRC findings that involve potential wrongdoing by licensees or applicants
for licenses, or their contractors or vendors, are thoroughly, objectively
and independently investigated. The results of these investigations are
provided to the NRC technical, legal, and enforcement staffs for appropriate
regulatory action. In addition, NRC refers investigations that find substantiated
wrongdoing to the Department of Justice
(DOJ) 
for prosecutorial review, and assists DOJ in prosecuting wrongdoing violations.
The Office of Investigations
(OI) is responsible for the NRC Investigations Program. OI is composed
of four regionally based field offices, each with a Field Office Director,
reporting to OI headquarters, which, in turn, reports to the Deputy Executive
Director for Reactor Programs. OI Special Agents are criminal investigators
with a wide range of experience within the Federal law enforcement community.
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