NOS National Ocean Survey NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission NSA National Security Agency NSC National Security Council NSF National Science Foundation NSTL National Space Technology Laboratories NTIA National Telecommunications and Administration NTID National Technical NTIS National Technical NTSB National Transportation NWC National War College OA Office of Administration OAS Organization of American States OCHAMPUS Office of Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services OCS Office of Community Services; Officer Candidate School; Outer OCSE Office of Child Support OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation OES Office of Employment OFCC Office of Federal OFPP Office of Federal OGPS Office of Grants and OICD Office of International Cooperation and Development OJJDP Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention OJP Office of Justice Programs OLMS Office of LaborManagement Standards OMB Office of Management and Budget OPFI Office of Program and OPIC Overseas Private Investment Corporation ORM Office of Regional ORR Office of Refugee Relief OSDBU Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHRC Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission OSMRE Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and RIT Rochester Institute of RL Radio Liberty RSA Rehabilitation Services RSPA Research and Special Astrophysical Observatory SBA Small Business Administration SCS Soil Conservation Service SDIO Strategic Defense Initiative Organization SEC Securities and Exchange Commission SERC Smithsonian Environmental Research SGLI Servicemen's Group Life SITES Smithsonian Institution Service SLS Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation SPC South Pacific Commission SSA Social Security Administration SSI Supplemental Security SSS Selective Service System START Strategic arms reduction talks Stat. United States Statutes at TDP Trade and Development TFCS Treasury Financial Communication System TSC Transportation Systems TVA Tennessee Valley Authority UDAG Urban Development UIS Unemployment Insurance UMTA Urban Mass Transportation Administration U.N. United Nations USDA United States Department of Agriculture USES United States Employment Service USIA United States Information USITC United States International Trade USMC United States Marine USN United States Navy USRA United States Railway USTTA United States Travel and VETS Veterans' Employment VISTA Volunteers in Service to VOA Voice of America WAPA Western Area Power WHO World Health Organization WHS Washington Headquarters Services WIC Special supplemental WMO World Meteorological Organization WWMCCS Worldwide Military Command and Control System YCC Youth Conservation Corps APPENDIX C: Federal Executive Agencies Terminated, Transferred, or Changed in Name Subsequent to March 4, 1933 NOTE: Italicized terms indicate obsolete agencies, organizations, and entities. In most instances, full entries are written at those terms elsewhere in the appendix. Dates prior to March 4, 1933, are included to provide additional information about the agencies. The 1989/90 edition of The U.S. Government Manual presents this appendix in an indexed format the editors consider to be more useful to the reader. Entries are now carried at the most significant term in their titles, or when there is more than one significant term, the entry is carried at the first significant term. Thus, Bureau of the Budget is now found at Budget, Bureau of the and Bureau of Agricultural Engineering is found at Agricultural Engineering, Bureau of. Reader comments on the new format are encouraged and should be sent to the address shown on page iv of the Manual. Accounts, Bureau of Functions transferred to Acts or Congress See State Department Advisory Board, Commission, Committee. See other part of title Aeronautical Board Organized in 1916 by Aeronautics, Bureau of Established in Navy Aeronautics, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Authority, Civil Established under act Agency by act of Aug. 23, 1958 (72 Stat. 810). Aeronautics Board, Civil See Aeronautics Aeronautics Branch Established in Commerce Department to carry out provisions of act of May 20, 1926 (44 Stat. 568). Renamed Bureau of Air Commerce by Secretary's administrative order of July 1, 1934. Personnel and property transferred to Civil Aeronautics Authority by EO 7959 of Aug. 22, 1938. Aeronautics and Space Council, National Aging, Administration on Established by Health, Aging, Federal Council on Established by Mar. 7, 1959, to Health, Education, and Welfare Secretary. Abolished by EO 11022 of May 15, 1962, which established President's Council on Aging. Aging, Office of Established by Health, Education, and Welfare Secretary June 2, 1955, as Special Staff on Aging. Terminated Sept. 30, 1965, and functions assumed by Administration on Aging. Aging, President's Council on Established by EO 11022 of May 14, 1962. EO 11022 revoked by EO 12379 of Aug. 17, 1982. Agricultural Adjustment Administration Agricultural Adjustment Agency See Agricultural Agricultural Advisory Commission, National Established by EO 10472 of July 20, 1953. Terminated Feb. 4, 1965, on resignation of members. Agricultural Chemistry and Engineering, Bureau of See Agricultural Engineering, Bureau of Agricultural Conservation and Adjustment Administration Established by EO 9069 of Feb. 23, 1942, consolidating Agricultural Adjustment Agency, Sugar Agency, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, and Soil Conservation Service. Consolidated into Food Production Administration. by EO 9280 of Dec. 5, 1942. Agricultural Conservation Program Service Established by Agriculture Secretary Jan. 21, 1953, from part of Production and Marketing Administration. Merged with Commodity Stabilization Service by Secretary's Memorandum 1446, supp. 2, of Apr. 19, 1961. Agricultural Developmental Service, International Established by Agriculture Secretary's memorandum of July 12, 1963. Functions and delegations of authority transferred to Foreign Agricultural Service by Secretary's memorandum of Mar. 28, 1969. Functions transferred by Secretary to Foreign Economic Development Service Nov. 8, 1969. Agricultural Economics, Bureau of Established by act of May 11, 1931 (42 Stat. 532). Functions transferred to other units of Agriculture Department, including Consumer and Marketing Service and Agricultural Research Service, under Secretary's Memorandum 1320, supp. 4, of Nov. 2, 1953. Agricultural Engineering, Bureau of Established by act of Feb. 23, 1931 (46 Stat. 1266). Merged with Bureau of Chemistry and Soils by Secretarial order of Oct. 16, 1938, to form Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and Engineering. Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry, Bureau of Bureau of Chemistry and Bureau of Soils, created in 1901, combined into Bureau of Chemistry and Soils by act of Jan. 18, 1927 (44 Stat. 976). Soils units transferred to other agencies of Agriculture Department and remaining units of Bureau of Chemistry and Soils and Bureau of Agricultural Engineering consolidated with Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and Engineering by Secretary's order of Oct. 16, 1938. In February 1943 agricultural engineering research made part of Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering, and organization for continuing agricultural chemistry research relating to crop utilization named Bureau of Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry, in accordance with Research Administration Memorandum 5 issued pursuant to EO 9069 of Feb. 23, 1942, and in conformity with Secretary's Memorandums 960 and 986. Functions transferred to Agricultural Research Service under Secretary's Memorandum 1320, supp. 4, of Nov. 2, 1953. Agricultural Library, National Established by Agricultural Marketing Administration Agricultural Marketing Service Established by Agriculture Secretary pursuant to act of June 30, 1939 (53 Stat. 939). Merged into Agricultural Marketing Administration by EO 9069 of Feb. 23, 1942. Renamed Consumer and Marketing Service by Secretary's Memorandum 1567, supp. 1, of Feb. 8, 1965. Agricultural Relations, Office of Foreign See Agricultural Research Administration Established by EO 9069 of Feb. 23, 1942. Superseded by Agricultural Research Service. Agricultural Research Service Established by Agriculture Secretary's Memorandum 1320, supp. 4, of Nov. 2, 1953. Consolidated into Science and Education Administration by Secretary's Order of Jan. 24, 1978. Reestablished as Agricultural Research Service by Secretarial order of June 16, 1981. Agricultural Service, Foreign Established by act of June 5, 1930 (46 Stat. 497). Economic research and agricultural attaché activities administered by Foreign Agricultural Service Division, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, until June 29, 1939. Transferred by Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, effective July 1, 1939, from Agriculture Department to State Department. Economic research functions of Division transferred to Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations June 30, 1939. Functions of Office transferred to Foreign Agricultural Service Mar. 10, 1953. Agricultural attachés placed in Agriculture Department by act of Aug. 28, 1954 (68 Stat. 908). Agricultural Statistics Division Transferred to Agriculture, Division of See Farm Products, Aid, Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Air Commerce, Bureau of See Aeronautics Air Coordinating Committee Established Mar. 27, 1945, by interdepartmental memorandum; formally established by EO 9781 of Sept. 19, 1946. Terminated by EO 10883 of Aug. 11, 1960, and functions transferred for liquidation to Federal Aviation Agency. Air Force Management Engineering Agency Established in 1975 in Air Force as separate operating unit. Made subordinate unit of Air Force Military Personnel Center (later Air Force Manpower and Personnel Center) in 1978. Reestablished as separate operating unit of Air Force, effective Mar. 1, 1985, by Secretarial order. Air Force Manpower and Personnel Center Certain functions transferred on activation of Air Force Management Engineering Agency, which was made separate operating unit from Air Force Manpower and Personnel Center in April 1985 by general order of Chief of Staff. Air Force Medical Service Center Renamed Air Force Office of Medical Support by Program Action Directive 85-1 of Mar. 6, 1985, approved by Air Force Vice Chief of Staff. Air Mail, Bureau of Established in Interstate Commerce Commission to carry out provisions of act of June 12, 1934 (48 Stat. 933). Personnel and property transferred to Civil Aeronautics Authority by EO 7959 of Aug. 22, 1938. Air Patrol, Civil Established in Civilian Defense Office by Administrative Order 9 of Dec. 8, 1941. Transferred to War Department as auxiliary of Army Air Forces by EO 9339 of Apr. 29, 1943. Transferred to Air Force Department by Defense Secretary's order of May 21, 1948. Established as civilian auxiliary of U.S. Air Force by act of May 26, 1948 (62 Stat. 274). Air Safety Board Established by act of June 23, 1938 (52 Stat. 973). Functions transferred to Civil Aeronautics Board by Reorg. Plan No. IV of 1940, effective June 30, 1940. Airways Modernization Board Established by act of Aug. 14, 1957 (71 Stat. 349). Transferred to Federal Aviation Agency by EO 10786 of Nov. 1, 1958. Alaska, Board of Road Commissioners for Established in War Department by act of Jan. 27, 1905 (33 Stat. 616). Functions transferred to Interior Department by act of June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. 446), and delegated to Alaska Road Commission. Functions transferred to Commerce Department by act of June 29, 1956 (70 Stat. 377), and terminated by act of June 25, 1959 (73 Stat. 145). Alaska, Federal Field Committee for Development Planning in Established by EO 11182 of Oct. 2, 1964. Abolished by EO 11608 of July 19, 1971. Alaska, Federal Reconstruction and Development Planning Commission for Established by EO 11150 of Apr. 2, 1964. Abolished by EO 11182 of Oct. 2, 1964, which established President's Review Committee for Development Planning in Alaska and Federal Field Committee for Development Planning in Alaska. Alaska, President's Review Committee for Development Planning in Established by EO 11182 of Oct. 2, 1964. Superseded by Federal Advisory Council on Regional Economic Development established by EO 11386 of Dec. 28, 1967. EO 11386 revoked by EO 12553 of Feb. 25, 1986. Alaska Communication System Operational responsibility vested in Army Secretary by act of May 26, 1900 (31 Stat. 206). Transferred to Air Force Secretary by Defense Secretary's reorganization order of May 24, 1962. Alaska Engineering Commission See Alaska Railroad Alaska Game Commission Established by act of Jan. 13, 1925 (43 Stat. 740). Expired Dec. 31, 1959, pursuant to act of July 7, 1958 (72 Stat. 339). Alaska International Rail and Highway Commission Established by act of Aug. 1, 1956 (70 Stat. 888). Terminated June 30, 1961, under terms of act. Alaska Power Administration Established by Interior Secretary in 1967. Transferred to Energy Department by act of Aug. 4, 1977 (91 Stat. 578). Alaska Railroad Built pursuant to act of Mar. 12, 1914 (38 Stat. 305), which created Alaska Engineering Commission. Placed under Interior Secretary by EO 2129 of Jan. 26, 1915, and renamed Alaska Railroad by EO 3861 of June 8, 1923. Authority to regulate tariffs granted to Interstate Commerce Commission by EO 11107 of Apr. 25, 1963. Authority to operate Railroad transferred to Transportation Secretary by act of Oct. 15, 1966 (80 Stat. 941), effective Apr. 1, 1967. Railroad purchased by State of Alaska, effective Jan. 5, 1985. |