History of Agency Organizational Changes

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HISTORY OF AGENCY

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES

NOTE: Italicized terms indicate obsolete agencies, organizations, and programs. Refer to the name

of the obsolete entity in this index for more explanation. Some dates prior to March 4, 1933 are

included to provide additional information.

Entries are indexed using the most signif‌i cant term in their titles, or when there is more than one

signif‌i cant term, the entry uses the f‌i rst signif‌i cant term. Thus, Bureau of the Budget is found at

Budget, Bureau of the, and Annual Assay Commission is found at Assay Commission, Annual.

Accounting Off‌i ce, General Established by act of

June 10, 1921 (42 Stat. 20). Renamed Government

Accountability Off‌i ce by act of July 7, 2004 (118 Stat.

814).

ACTION Established by Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1971

(5 U.S.C. app.), effective July 1, 1971. Reorganized

by act of Oct. 1, 1973 (87 Stat. 405). Functions

relating to SCORE and ACT programs transferred

to Small Business Administration by EO 11871 of

July 18, 1975 (40 FR 30915). Functions exercised

by the Director of ACTION prior to Mar. 31, 1995,

transferred to the Corporation for National and

Community Service (107 Stat. 888 and Proclamation

6662 of Apr. 4, 1994 (57 FR 16507)).

Acts of Congress See State, Department of

Administrative Conference of the United

States Established by act of Aug. 30, 1964 (78 Stat.

615). Terminated by act of Nov. 19, 1995 (109 Stat.

480). Reauthorized in 2004, 2008, and 2009 by

acts of Oct. 30, 2004 (118 Stat. 2255), July 30, 2008

(122 Stat. 2914), and March 11, 2009 (123 Stat. 656).

Reestablished by Congress on Mar. 3, 2010 upon

conf‌i rmation of chairman.

Advanced Research Projects Agency See Defense

Advanced Research Projects Agency

Advisory Board. See other part of title

Advisory Committee. See other part of title

Advisory Council. See other part of title

Aeronautical Board Organized in 1916 by

agreement of War and Navy Secretaries. Placed

under supervision of President by military order of

July 5, 1939. Dissolved by Secretary of Defense

letter of July 27, 1948, and functions transferred to

Munitions Board and Research and Development

Board. Military order of July 5, 1939, revoked by

military order of Oct. 18, 1948.

Aeronautics, Bureau of Established in the

Department of the Navy by act of July 12, 1921 (42

Stat. 140). Abolished by act of Aug. 18, 1959 (73 Stat.

395) and functions transferred to Bureau of Naval

Weapons.

Aeronautics, National Advisory Committee

for Established by act of Mar. 3, 1915 (38 Stat. 930).

Terminated by act of July 29, 1958 (72 Stat. 432), and

functions transferred to National Aeronautics and

Space Administration, established by same act.

Aeronautics Administration, Civil See Aeronautics

Authority, Civil

Aeronautics Authority, Civil Established under

act of June 23, 1938 (52 Stat. 973). Renamed Civil

Aeronautics Board and Administrator transferred

to the Department of Commerce by Reorg. Plan

Nos. III and IV of 1940, effective June 30, 1940.

Off‌i ce of Administrator designated Civil Aeronautics

Administration by Department Order 52 of Aug.

29, 1940. Administration transferred to Federal

Aviation Agency by act of Aug. 23, 1958 (72 Stat.

810). Functions of Board under act of Aug. 23, 1958

(72 Stat. 775), transferred to National Transportation

Safety Board by act of Oct. 15, 1966 (80 Stat. 931).

Functions of Board terminated or transferred—

effective in part Dec. 31, 1981; in part Jan. 1, 1983;

and in part Jan. 1, 1985—by act of Aug. 23, 1958 (92

Stat. 1744). Most remaining functions transferred to

Secretary of Transportation, remainder to U.S. Postal

Service. Termination of Board f‌i nalized by act of Oct.

4, 1984 (98 Stat. 1703).

Aeronautics Board, Civil See Aeronautics

Authority, Civil

Aeronautics Branch Established in the Department

of Commerce to carry out provisions of act of May

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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 Established by act of July 29, 1958 (72

Stat. 427). Abolished by Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1973,

effective June 30, 1973.

Aging, Administration on Established by

Secretary

of Health, Education, and Welfare on Oct. 1, 1965,

to carry out provisions of act of July 14, 1965 (79

Stat. 218). Reassigned to Social and Rehabilitation

Service by Department reorganization of Aug. 15,

1967. Transferred to Off‌i ce of Assistant Secretary

for Human Development by Secretary’s order

of June 15, 1973. Transferred to the Off‌i ce of

the Secretary of Health and Human Services by

Secretary’s reorganization notice dated Apr. 15, 1991.

Transferred to the Administration for Community

Living by Department’s notice of April 18, 2012 (77

FR 23250).

Aging, Federal Council on Established by

Presidential memorandum of Apr. 2, 1956.

Reconstituted at Federal level by Presidential letter of

Mar. 7, 1959, to Secretary of Health, Education, and

Welfare. Abolished by EO 11022 of May 15, 1962,

which established President’s Council on Aging.

Aging, Off‌i ce of Established by Secretary of Health,

Education, and Welfare 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. Terminated by EO 11022,

which was revoked by EO 12379 of Aug. 17, 1982.

Agricultural Adjustment Administration Established

by act of May 12, 1933 (48 Stat. 31). Consolidated

into Agricultural Conservation and Adjustment

Administration as Agricultural Adjustment Agency,

Department of Agriculture, by EO 9069 of Feb. 23,

1942. Grouped with other agencies to form Food

Production Administration by EO 9280 of Dec. 5,

1942. Transferred to War Food Administration by EO

9322 of Mar. 26, 1943. Administration terminated

by EO 9577 of June 29, 1945, and functions

transferred to Secretary of Agriculture. Transfer made

permanent by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, effective

July 16, 1946. Functions of Agricultural Adjustment

Agency consolidated with Production and Marketing

Administration by Secretary’s Memorandum 1118 of

Aug. 18, 1945.

Agricultural Adjustment Agency See Agricultural

Adjustment Administration

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 Secretary of Agriculture

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 Secretary of Agriculture

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 the Department of

Agriculture, 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 the Department

of Agriculture 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

Secretary of Agriculture Memorandum 1496 of Mar.

23, 1962. Consolidated into Science and Education

Administration by Secretary’s order of Jan. 24, 1978.

Reestablished as National Agricultural Library by

Secretary’s order of June 16, 1981. Became part

of Agricultural Research Service in 1994 under

Department of Agriculture reorganization.

Agricultural Marketing Administration Established

by EO 9069 of Feb. 23, 1942, consolidating Surplus

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Marketing Administration, Agricultural Marketing

Service, and Commodity Exchange Administration.

Division of Consumers’ Counsel transferred to

Administration by Secretary’s memorandum of

Feb. 28, 1942. Consolidated into Food Distribution

Administration in the Department of Agriculture by

EO 9280 of Dec. 5, 1942.

Agricultural Marketing Service Established by

the Secretary of Agriculture 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. Reestablished as Agricultural Marketing Service

by the Secretary of Agriculture on Apr. 2, 1972, under

authority of Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1953 (67 Stat. 633).

Agricultural Relations, Off‌i ce of Foreign See

Agricultural Service, Foreign

Agricultural Research Administration Established

by EO 9069 of Feb. 23, 1942. Superseded by

Agricultural Research Service.

Agricultural Research Service Established by

Secretary of Agriculture 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 attache´ 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 the Department of Agriculture

to the Department of State. Economic research

functions of Division transferred to Off‌i ce of Foreign

Agricultural Relations June 30, 1939. Functions of

Off‌i ce transferred to Foreign Agricultural Service

Mar. 10, 1953. Agricultural attache´s placed in the

Department of Agriculture by act of Aug. 28, 1954

(68 Stat. 908).

Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation

Service Established June 5, 1961, by the Secretary

of Agriculture under authority of revised statutes (5

U.S.C. 301) and Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1953 (5 U.S.C.

app.). Abolished and functions assumed by the Farm

Service Agency by Secretary’s Memorandum 1010– 1

dated Oct. 20, 1994 (59 FR 60297, 60299).

Agricultural Statistics Division Transferred to

Bureau of Agricultural Economics by EO 9069 of Feb.

23, 1942.

Agriculture, Division of See Farm Products,

Division of

Air Commerce, Bureau of See Aeronautics Branch

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 (formerly 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 (later Air Force Military Personnel

Center) in April 1985 by general order of Chief of

Staff.

Air Force Medical Service Center Renamed Air

Force Off‌i ce 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

Off‌i ce by Administrative Order 9 of Dec. 8, 1941.

Transferred to Department of War as auxiliary of

Army Air Forces by EO 9339 of Apr. 29, 1943.

Transferred to the Department of the Air Force

by Secretary of Defense 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 Department of War by act of

Jan. 27, 1905 (33 Stat. 616). Functions transferred

to the Department of Interior by act of June 30,

1932 (47 Stat. 446), and delegated to Alaska Road

Commission. Functions transferred to the Department

of Commerce 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.