The Federal Alcohol Administration was a
United States government
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agency created in 1935 (as part of the
Department of the Treasury) by the Federal Alcohol Administration Act, title 27 chapter 8 of the
United States Code
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.
It was created to regulate the alcohol industry after the repeal of
Prohibition
Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic b ...
, replacing a previous body (the Federal Alcohol Control Administration) which did not have statutory powers. The Act still partly continues in force, underpinning the powers of the
Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, statutorily named the Tax and Trade Bureau and frequently shortened to TTB, is a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury, which regulates and collects taxes on trade and imports of alc ...
(TTB).
See also
*
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF)
*
Joseph H. Choate Jr., head of the preceding Federal Alcohol Control Administration
References
External links
Federal Alcohol Administration Act, from the Cornell University Legal Information InstituteATF History
accessed Feb 7 2010
Government agencies established in 1935
Defunct agencies of the United States government
United States Department of the Treasury
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