He signed into law Senator Charles Sumner's Freedman's Bureau bill that set up a temporary federal agency designed to meet the immediate material needs of former slaves.

Other federal agencies, such as the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service pursue primarily conservation missions, while still others, such as the United States Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, tend to focus more on beneficial use of natural resources.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) is a governmental agency belonging to the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency ( counterintelligence ).

He appointed a commission that set aside 3, 000, 000 acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of national parks and 2, 300, 000 acres of national forests ; advocated tax reduction for low-income Americans ( not enacted ); closed certain tax loopholes for the wealthy ; doubled the number of veterans ' hospital facilities ; negotiated a treaty on St. Lawrence Seaway ( which failed in the U. S. Senate ); wrote a Children's Charter that advocated protection of every child regardless of race or gender ; created an antitrust division in the Justice Department ; required air mail carriers to adopt stricter safety measures and improve service ; proposed federal loans for urban slum clearances ( not enacted ); organized the Federal Bureau of Prisons ; reorganized the Bureau of Indian Affairs ; instituted prison reform ; proposed a federal Department of Education ( not enacted ); advocated $ 50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 ( not enacted ); chaired White House conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership ; began construction of the Boulder Dam ( later renamed Hoover Dam ); and signed the Norris – La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labor disputes.

One of federal law enforcement ’ s surveillance tools is ‘‘ Project Carnivore ,’’ a Justice Department Internet surveillance program that is administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) to access information flowing to and from a central processing unit on a network connection.

§§ 1153, 3242, and court decisions to be investigated by the federal government, usually the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and prosecuted by United States Attorneys of the United States federal judicial district in which the reservation lies.

They expressed anger at the federal government's handling of the 1992 Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) standoff with Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge as well as the Waco Siege — a 1993 51-day standoff between the FBI and Branch Davidian members which began with a botched ATF attempt to execute a search warrant leading to a fire fight ( it is unknown whether ATF agents or Branch Davidians fired the first shot ) and ended with the burning and shooting deaths of David Koresh and 75 others.

McVeigh's criterion for potential attack sites was that the target should house at least two of three federal law-enforcement agencies: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ( ATF ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ), or the Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ).

Along with Hillsborough County Sheriff ’ s Office, Tampa Police Department, the State Attorney ’ s Office, the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms were involved in the operation.

Harding's creation of the Budget Bureau was a major economic accomplishment that reformed and streamlined wasteful federal spending.

On the economic front, Harding urged Congress to create a Bureau of the Budget ; cut expenditures ; and revise federal tax laws.

* February 28 – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents raid the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, with a warrant to arrest leader David Koresh on federal firearms violations.

* October 12 – The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz is acquired by the United States Department of Justice, which plans to incorporate the island into its Federal Bureau of Prisons as a federal penitentiary.

Both began as brainchilds of the state government, but because of lack of funds, the construction work and costs were shifted to the federal U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and U. S. Bureau of Reclamation.

The National Guard Bureau also provides policies and requirements for training and funds for training for state Army National Guard and state Air National Guard units, the allocation of federal funds to the Army National Guard of the United States and the Air National Guard of the United States, as well as other administrative responsibilities prescribed under.

The government demanded federal action, and J. Edgar Hoover developed a more sophisticated Federal Bureau of Investigation as a weapon against organized crime and used Dillinger and his gang as his campaign platform to launch the FBI.

The Bureau of Investigation ( BOI ), a precursor of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was brought into the investigation to help identify the criminals, although the men had not violated any federal law.

The National Park Service works closely with other federal agencies such as the U. S. Forest Service, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Reclamation, and also, in consequence of Jackson Hole Airport's presence in the park, the Federal Aviation Administration.

In 1946, the Grazing Service was merged with the General Land Office ( a product of the country's territorial expansion and the federal government's nineteenth-century homesteading policies ) to form the Bureau of Land Management within the Department of the Interior.

Called the Constitution State, Nutmeg State, and " The Land of Steady Habits ", Connecticut was influential in the development of the federal government of the United States.

Some monies are allocated from congress via the Land and Water Conservation Fund, but Grand Teton National Park may not get all the money needed from the fund as it is divided up between four different federal agencies.

In 1812, Congress established the General Land Office in the Department of the Treasury to oversee the disposition of these federal lands.

The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ended homesteading ; by that time, federal government policy had shifted to retaining control of western public lands.

Land conservation advocates have long tried to enact additional tax incentives for landowners to donate easements, above the federal charitable deduction ( and state tax deduction in states that conform to federal tax process ).

In the United States, cadastral surveys are typically conducted by the federal government, specifically through the Cadastral Surveys branch of the Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ), formerly the General Land Office ( GLO ).

There is a significant federal presence in the region ; the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management administer more than 50 % of the county's land.

A large county, roughly 1 / 3 of its area is tribal land, 1 / 3 is federal land ( administered by the National Park Service, the United States Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management ), and 1 / 3 private or state / county land.

The village has raised legal concerns over the project that include an alleged failure by the federal Bureau of Land Management to provide adequate public notice and public comment periods regarding the Boulder Creek mine project.

Because of President Roosevelt's creation of the Siskiyou National Forest, and the reversion of Oregon and California Railroad lands to federal government control, by 1937 the U. S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management were in charge of 70 % of the land in Josephine county, and a large part of the Illinois Valley.

As the climate and topography were not promising to settlement, the entire region remained sparsely populated until several federal congressional actions, including the Northern Pacific Land Grant Act, the Homestead Act, and Desert Claims Act, encouraged the settlement of this semi-arid desert.

The Representative has held meetings with interested parties including the Boards established under the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement ( NLCA ), territorial and federal government departments in order to determine if devolution will occur and if so the future mandate of devolution.

The reservation is a composite holding derived from ( 1 ) land given to the tribe the Seneca tribe, Land donated by the Holland Land Company, and ( 3 ) Trust territory held by the federal government.

Early in 1903 they joined with the Wyoming Board of Land Commissioners in urging the federal government to step in and help with irrigation development in the valley.

The Tecklenburger Land in the west is the geographical continuation of the Osnabrücker land in the neighbouring federal state North Rhine-Westphalia.

In May 2007, the U. S. filed an action against the Holy Land Foundation ( the largest Muslim charity in the United States at the time ) for providing funds to Hamas, and federal prosecutors filed pleadings.

In December 2004, a federal judge in Chicago ruled that the IAP ( along with the Holy Land Foundation ) was liable for a $ 156 million dollar lawsuit for aiding and abetting the terror group Hamas in the death of 17-year-old David Boim, an American citizen.

The other 30 % of the budget is sourced in the proportion 9: 1 from federal and state ( Land ) government grants and is used to support preparatory research.

National monuments can be managed by one of several federal agencies: the National Park Service, United States Forest Service, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, or Bureau of Land Management.

The federal Office of Management and Budget divides New Jersey's counties into seven Metropolitan Statistical Areas, including sixteen counties in the New York City or Philadelphia metro areas.

According to Homeland security research, the U. S. federal Homeland Security and Homeland Defense includes 187 federal agencies and departments, including the United States National Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the United States Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the United States Secret Service, the Transportation Security Administration, the 14 agencies that constitute the U. S. intelligence community and Civil Air Patrol.

The largest component of the Office of Management and Budget are the four Resource Management Offices which are organized along functional lines mirroring the U. S. federal government, each led by an OMB associate director.

They also provide important information to those assigned to the statutory offices within OMB, which are Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, the Office of Federal Financial Management, and the Office of E-Government & Information Technology whose job it is to specialize in issues such as federal regulations or procurement policy and law.

* Communication Management Unit A portion of a US federal prison facility that restricts an inmate's access to other inmates and ability to communicate with the outside world.

The Administrator for Federal Emergency Management reports directly to the Secretary of Homeland Security. In March 2003, FEMA joined 22 other federal agencies, programs and offices in becoming the Department of Homeland Security.

The Office of Federal Financial Management ( OFFM ) is specifically charged with overseeing financial management matters, establishing financial management policies and requirements, and monitoring the establishment and operation of federal financial management systems.

The CFO Act also established the CFO Council, chair by the OMB Deputy Director for Management and including the CFOs and Deputy CFOs of 23 federal agencies, the OFFM controller, and the Fiscal Assistant Secretary, the head of the Office of Fiscal Service of the Department of the Treasury.

The federal Office of Management and Budget has issued a definition of Micropolitan Statistical Areas as " an urban cluster of at least 10, 000, but less than 50, 000 population, plus adjacent territory that has a high degree of social and economic integration with the core, as measured by commuting ties.

Another example of an adhocracy is the U. S. Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ) that oversees the coordination of local, state, federal and non-profit organizations in any given national emergency.

* Office of Management and Budget, a group that oversees the activities of federal agencies in the United States

Finally, the bankrupt GTR itself was placed under the care of a federal government " Board of Management " on May 21, 1920, while GTR management and shareholders opposed to nationalization took legal action.

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin ( ethnicity ).

The Federal Government receives royalties on production on federal lands ; Managed by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, formerly the Minerals Management Service.