Solid Fuels Administration for War

Solid Fuels Administration for War

Solid Fuels Administration for War poster
Agency overview
Formed	March 19, 1943 (1943-03-19)
Preceding agencies	Office of Solid Fuels Coordinator for War (SFCW, 1942-43) Office of Solid Fuels Coordinator for National Defense (SFCND, 1941-42) Department of the Interior (1939-43) National Bituminous Coal Commission (NBCC, 1937-39) Bituminous Coal Division (BCD)
Dissolved	June 30, 1947
Superseding agency	Department of the Interior, liquidator
Parent agency	Department of the Interior

The Solid Fuels Administration for War (SFAW) was a U.S. federal agency that administered wartime government controls on solid fuels industries.

According to Executive Order 9332 Establishing the Solid Fuels Administration for War,

The term "solid fuels" includes all forms of anthracite, bituminous, sub-bituminous, and lignitic coals (including packaged and processed fuels, such as briquettes) ...

The term "solid fuels industries" means the development, production, preparation, treatment, processing, storage, shipment, receipt, and distribution of solid fuels within the United States, its territories and possessions, but does not include the transportation of solid fuels.^[1]

It also advised other agencies, such as the Office of Defense Transportation, the War Shipping Administration, and the War Manpower Commission concerning solid fuels production, pricing, transportation, and distribution.

It operated government-seized coal mines, either directly or through cooperation with successive Coal Mines Administrations.

It was established within the Department of the Interior by EO 9332, April 19, 1943, replacing the Office of Solid Fuels Coordinator for War; and absorbing functions of the abolished Bituminous Coal Division, Department of the Interior, August 24, 1943.

It was abolished, effective June 30, 1947, by EO 9847, May 6, 1947.^[2]

• Don Hilary Gingery

 This article incorporates public domain material from Records of the Solid Fuels Administration for War (SFAW). National Archives and Records Administration.