List of defunct or renamed United States federal agencies

• Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (in the Department of Agriculture) (ASCS)

  Replaced in 1994 with the Farm Service Agency.

• Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AA)
• Board of Economic Warfare (BEW)
• Board of Tea Appeals

  Abolished in 1996

• Bureau of Arms Control (in the Department of State)

  Replaced September 13, 2005, by the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation

• Bureau of Nonproliferation (in the Department of State)

  Replaced September 13, 2005, by the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation

• Bureau of Verification and Compliance (in the Department of State)

  Replaced February 1, 2000 by the Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation

• Committee on Public Information (CPI)
• Farmers Home Administration

  Replaced in 1994 with the Farm Service Agency.

• Farm Security Administration (FSA)
• Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA or Fannie Mae)

  Fannie Mae was partially privatized in 1968; its government administered portion was renamed the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae); see Department of Housing and Urban Development, above

• Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)

  Renamed Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; see Department of Health and Human Services, above

• Student Loan Marketing Association (SLMA or Sallie Mae)

  Sallie Mae has been fully privatized and is no longer administered by the federal government.

• Foreign Economic Administration (FEA)
• Federal Theatre Project (FTP)
• General Accounting Office (GAO)

  Renamed "Government Accountability Office" in 2004; see #Legislative Branch, above.

• Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
• Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)

  Now the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS)

• National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
• U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey

  Renamed U.S. National Geodetic Survey

• Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (OCIAA)
• Office of Technology Assessment (OTA)

  Congress closed the OTA in 2004.

• Office of War Information (OWI)
• Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
• Resettlement Administration (RA)

  Turned into Farm Security Administration in 1937.

• United States Information Agency (USIA)
• United States Life-Saving Service

Merged with the Revenue Cutter Service to create the United States Coast Guard

• Veterans Administration (VA)

  Became a cabinet department in 1988; see United States Department of Veterans Affairs, above.

• War Production Board (WPB)
• Works Progress Administration (WPA)

See also

List of United States federal agencies

External links

• U.S. Government Manual, official online version of the United States Government Manual, continually updated.
• U.S. Government Manual, official freely downloadable PDFs of annual printed versions, 1995-present. Edition printed November 2013 includes appendix, "History of Agency Organizational Changes" (pp. 547-608) and "Commonly Used Agency Acronyms"(pp. 539-545).
• CyberCemetery, online document archive of defunct U.S. Federal Agencies, maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries in partnership with the Federal Depository Library Program of the GPO