§531 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives

Summary

Moves most of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to the Department of Justice, but keeps at the Treasury the ATF duties that deal with tax and trade law — specifically chapters 51 and 52 of title 26, sections 4181 and 4182 of title 26, and title 27. Creates the Tax and Trade Bureau inside the Department of the Treasury. The bureau is led by an Administrator, a career-reserved position in the Senior Executive Service, who carries out duties given by the Under Secretary for Enforcement of the Department of the Treasury. The Tax and Trade Bureau will run the ATF functions, staff, and assets that remain at Treasury.