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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_agencies_of_the_United_States_government Independent agencies of the United States Government are those executive branch agencies of the federal government of the United States that exist outside of the federal executive departments. Established through...
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| x Advisory Council on Historic Preservation |
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The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) is an independent agency of the United States government that promotes the preservation, enhancement, and productive use of the nation's historic resources, and advises the President and Congress...
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| x African Development Foundation |
The United States African Development Foundation (USADF) is an "Independent United States Government Agency" which provides grants of up to $250,000 to community groups and small enterprises that benefit under served and marginalized groups in Sub...
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| x Amtrak |
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The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak (reporting mark AMTK), is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971 to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States. "Amtrak" is a...
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| x United States Central Intelligence Agency |
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government.
It is an independent agency responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior United States policymakers.
It is the successor...
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| x United States Commission on Civil Rights |
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is a bipartisan, independent, commission of the U.S. federal government charged with the responsibility for investigating, reporting on, and making recommendations concerning civil rights issues that face the...
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| x United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission |
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is an independent agency of the United States government.
The Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), 7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq., prohibits fraudulent conduct in the trading of futures contracts. In 1974, Congress...
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| x Consumer Product Safety Commission |
The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is an independent agency of the United States government created in 1972 through the Consumer Product Safety Act to protect "against unreasonable risks of injuries associated with consumer...
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| x Corporation For National and Community Service |
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The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) was created as an independent agency of the United States government by the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993. The mission of the CNCS is to "support the American culture of...
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| x Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency |
The Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) was established, under the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997, to oversee probationers and parolees, and provide pretrial services in Washington, D.C...
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| x Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board |
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board is an independent agency of the United States government. Established in 1988, the DNFSB oversees the nuclear weapons complex administered by the U.S. Department of Energy. The DNFSB is independent of the...
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| x Election Assistance Commission |
The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA). The Commission is charged with serving as a national resource for administering Federal elections...
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| x United States Environmental Protection Agency |
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or sometimes USEPA) is an agency of the federal government of the United States charged to protect human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress....
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| x United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is an independent federal agency that enforces laws against workplace discrimination. The EEOC investigates discrimination complaints based on an individual's race, color, national origin,...
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| x Export-Import Bank of the United States |
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The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) is the official export credit agency of the United States federal government. It was established in 1934 by an executive order, and made an independent agency in the Executive branch by...
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| x Farm Credit Administration |
The Farm Credit Administration is an independent agency of the Executive Branch of the United States Government. It regulates and examines the banks, associations, and related entities of the Farm Credit System, a network of borrower-owned financial...
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| x U.S. Federal Communications Commission |
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government, created, directed, and empowered by Congressional statute (see 47 U.S.C. § 151 and 47 U.S.C. § 154), and with the majority of its commissioners...
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| x Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is a United States government corporation created by the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. It provides deposit insurance, which guarantees the safety of deposits in member banks, currently up to $250,000...
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| x Federal Election Commission |
The Federal Election Commission (or FEC) is an independent regulatory agency that was founded in 1975 by the United States Congress to regulate the campaign finance legislation in the United States. It was created in a provision of the 1975...
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| x Federal Housing Finance Board |
The Federal Housing Finance Board (FHFB) is an independent agency of the United States government, created by the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 or FIRREA (pronounced "fur-EE-ah"). In the aftermath of the savings...
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| x Federal Labor Relations Authority |
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The Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) is an independent agency of the United States government that governs labor relations between the federal government and its employees.
Created by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, it is a quasi...
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| x Federal Maritime Commission |
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The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) is an independent federal agency, based in Washington D.C., responsible for the regulation of oceanborne transportation in the foreign commerce of the U.S.
The FMC:
• Regulates certain activities of...
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| x Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service |
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The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is an independent agency of the United States government, founded in 1947, which provides mediation services to industry, community and government agencies worldwide. One of its most common tasks is to...
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| x Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission |
The Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is an independent adjudicative agency of the United States Government that provides administrative trial and appellate review of legal disputes arising under the Federal Mine Safety and Health...
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| x Federal Reserve System |
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The Federal Reserve System (also known as the Federal Reserve, and informally as the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. It was created in 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, and was largely a response to prior...
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| x Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board |
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The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board was established as an independent agency of the United States government by the Federal Employees Retirement System Act of 1986. It is one of the smaller executive branch agencies, with just over 80...
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| x General Services Administration |
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The General Services Administration (GSA) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies. The GSA supplies products and communications for U.S....
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| x United States Institute of Museum and Library Services |
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is an independent agency of the United States federal government. It is the main source of federal support for libraries and museums within the United States. IMLS’s mission is to “create strong libraries...
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| x Inter-American Foundation |
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The Inter-American Foundation or IAF is a foreign assistance agency of the United States. The Foundation provides funding for grassroots projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Foundation began as part of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969...
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| x International Broadcasting Bureau |
The International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) is the U.S. Government entity that supports the day-to-day operations of Voice of America (VOA) and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (Radio and TV Marti). It also provides transmission and technical support...
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| x United States Merit Systems Protection Board |
The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) is an independent quasi-judicial agency established to protect Federal merit systems against partisan political and other prohibited personnel practices and to ensure adequate protection for federal...
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| x NASA |
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, pronounced /ˈnæsə/) is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program. NASA was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act on July 29,...
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| x National Archives and Records Administration |
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The United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records and with increasing public access to those...
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| x National Capital Planning Commission |
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The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) is a U.S. government agency that provides planning guidance for Washington, D.C. and the surrounding National Capital Region. Through its planning policies and review of development proposals, the...
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| x National Council on Disability |
The National Council on Disability (NCD) was initially established in 1978 as an advisory board within the United States Department of Education to guarantee equal opportunity for people with disabilities. NCD is composed of 15 members, appointed by...
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| x National Credit Union Administration |
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The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) is the United States independent federal agency that supervises and charters federal credit unions and insures savings in federal and most state-chartered credit unions across the country through the...
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| x National Endowment for the Arts |
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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an...
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| x National Endowment for the Humanities |
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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (Pub.L. 89-209) dedicated to supporting research, education,...
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| x National Labor Relations Board |
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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is an independent agency of the United States government charged with conducting elections for labor union representation and with investigating and remedying unfair labor practices. Unfair labor practices...
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| x National Mediation Board |
The National Mediation Board (NMB) is an independent agency of the United States government that coordinates labor-management relations within the U.S. railroad and airline industries. The board was established by the 1934 amendments to the Railway...
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| x National Science Foundation |
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health. With...
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| x National Transportation Safety Board |
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is an independent U.S. Government investigative agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigation. In this role, the NTSB investigates and reports on aviation accidents and incidents,...
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| x Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission (or NRC) is a United States government agency that was established by the Energy Reorganization Act in 1974 from the Atomic Energy Commission, and was first opened January 19, 1975.
The NRC oversees reactor safety,...
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| x Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission |
The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) is an independent Federal agency created to decide contests of citations or penalties resulting from OSHA inspections of American work places. The Review...
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| x United States Congress Office of Compliance |
The United States Congress Office of Compliance is an independent federal agency within the legislative branch of the United States government. It was created to administer and enforce the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995.
The office is made...
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| x United States Office of Government Ethics |
The United States Office of Government Ethics (OGE) is a separate agency within the executive branch of the U.S. Federal Government which is responsible for directing executive branch policies relating to the prevention of conflicts of interest on...
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| x Office of Personnel Management |
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The United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is an independent agency of the United States government that manages the civil service of the federal government. The current Director is John Berry, and the nominee for Deputy Director is...
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| x United States Office of Special Counsel |
The United States Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is a permanent independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency whose basic legislative authority comes from three federal statutes, the Civil Service Reform Act, the Whistleblower...
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| x Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive |
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The Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive (ONCIX) directs national counter-intelligence (CI) for the United States government and is responsible to the Director of National Intelligence. The Office was established on January 5, 2001...
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| x Overseas Private Investment Corporation |
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) is an agency of the United States Government established in 1971 that helps U.S. businesses invest overseas and promotes economic development in new and emerging markets. OPIC's mission is to ...
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| x Peace Corps |
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The Peace Corps is an American volunteer program run by the United States Government, as well as a governmental agency of the same name. Each program participant, or Peace Corps Volunteer, is an American citizen who commits to working abroad in an...
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| x Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation |
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (or PBGC) is an independent agency of the United States government that was created by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to encourage the continuation and maintenance of voluntary...
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| x Postal Rate Commission |
The United States Postal Rate Commission (until late 2006, the Postal Regulatory Commission) is an independent regulatory agency created by the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 to set the rates for different classes of mail by holding hearings on...
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| x Railroad Retirement Board |
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The Railroad Retirement Board (or RRB) is an agency of the United States government created in the 1930s to administer a social insurance program providing retirement benefits to the country's railroad workers.
The RRB serves U.S. railroad workers...
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| x United States Securities and Exchange Commission |
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (commonly known as the SEC) is an independent agency of the United States government which holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws and regulating the securities industry, the...
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| x Selective Service System |
The Selective Service System is a means by which the United States maintains information on those potentially subject to military conscription. All males between the ages of 18 to 25 are required by law to register within 30 days of their 18th...
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| x Small Business Administration |
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The Small Business Administration (SBA) is a United States government agency that provides support to small businesses.
The mission of the Small Business Administration is "to maintain and strengthen the nation's economy by enabling the...
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| x Social Security Administration |
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The United States Social Security Administration (SSA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits. To...
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| x Tennessee Valley Authority |
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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development...
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| x United States Trade and Development Agency |
The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), located in Rosslyn, Arlington, Virginia, is an independent U.S. Government foreign assistance agency pursuant to section 661 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (22 USC 2421). The agency...
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| x United States Agency for International Development |
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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the United States federal government organization responsible for most non-military foreign aid. An independent federal agency, it receives overall foreign policy guidance from the...
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