The following Environmental Acronyms may have one or more different meanings other than the cited text references.
ACGIH | American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists | NOAA | National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration |
ACM | Asbestos-Containing Materials | NOEC | No observed effect concentration |
ANSI | American National Standards Institute, Inc. | NORM | Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials |
API | American Petroleum Institute | NOx | Abbreviation for oxides of nitrogen |
AST | Above Ground Storage Tank | NPDES | National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System |
ASTM | American Society for Testing & Methods | NPL | National Priorities List |
ATSDR | Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry | NRC | Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
BACT | Best Available Control Technology | NSPS | New Source Performance Standard |
BDAT | Best Demonstrated Available Technology | OSHA | Occupational Safety & Health Administration |
BIF | Boiler and Industrial Furnace | PAH | Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbon |
BMP | Best Management Practice | PCB | Polychlorinated Biphenyls |
BOD | Biological Oxygen Demand | PEL | Permissible Exposure Limit |
CAA | Clean Air Act | PIC | Product of Incomplete Combustion |
CAER | Community Awareness & Emergency Response | PIES | Pollution Prevention Information Exchange |
CAMU | Corrective Action Management Unit | PM | Particulate Matter |
CAS | Chemical Abstract Service | POTW | Publicly Owned Treatment Works |
CDC | Center for Disease Control | PPA | Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 |
CEM | Continous Emissions Monitoring | ppb | parts per billion |
CERCLA | Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act | PPE | Personal Protective Equipment |
CFR | Code of Federal Regulations | ppm | parts per million |
CLP | Contract Laboratory Program | PRP | Potentially Responsible Party |
CMS | Corrective Measures Study | RCRA | Resource Conservation & Recovery Act |
COD | Chemical Oxygen Demand | RFA | RCRA Facility Assessment |
CWA | Clean Water Act | RFI | RCRA Facility Investigation |
DEQ | Dept. of Environmental Quality | RQ | Reportable Quantity |
DMR | Discharge Monitoring Report | SARA | Superfund Amendments & Reauthorization Act |
DNR | Dept. of Natural Resources | SDWA | Safe Drinking Water Act |
DOC | Dissolved Organic Carbon | SERC | State Emergency Response Commission |
DRE | Destruction & Removal Efficiency | SIC | Standard Industrial Classification |
EHS | Extremely Hazardous Substance | SIP | State Implementation Plan |
EIS | Environmental Impact Statement | SOx | Sulfur Oxides |
EIS | Emissions Inventory System | SOCMA | Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association |
ELP | Environmental Leadership Program | SOP | Standard Operating Procedures |
EPA | Environmental Protection Agency | SPCC | Spill Prevention Control & Countermeasures |
EPCRA | Emergency Planning & Community Right-to-Know Act | SQG | Small Quantity Generator |
ERC | Emergency Response Commission | STEL | Short Term Exposure Limit |
ERNS | Emergency Response Notification System | SWMU | Solid Waste Management Unit (RCRA) |
ESA | Environmental Site Assessment | TAP | Toxic Air Pollutant |
FIFRA | Federal Insecticide, Fungicide & Rodenticide Act | TC | Toxicity Characteristics |
FINDS | Facility Index System | TCLP | Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (RCRA) |
FOIA | Freedom of Information Act | THC | Total Hydrocarbons |
FR | Federal Register | TITLE III | Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act |
HAP | Hazardous Air Pollutant | TLV | Threshold Limit Value |
HCFC | Hydrochlorofluorocarbon | TOXNET | Toxicology Network |
HMR | Hazardous Materials Regulations | TPH | Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons |
HON | Hazardous Organic NESHAP | TPQ | Total Planning Quantity |
HSP | Health & Safety Plan | TRI | Toxic Release Inventory |
HSWA | Hazardous & Solid Waste Amendments - 1984 Amendments to RCRA | TSCA | Toxic Substance Control Act |
IDLH | Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health | TSDF | Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facility |
I/M | Inspection & Maintenance | TSP | Total Suspended Particulates |
LDR | Land Disposal Restrictions | TSS | Total Suspended Solids |
LEL | Lower Explosive Limit | TUR | Toxic Use Reduction |
LEPC | Local Emergency Planning Commission | TWA | Time Weighted Average |
LUST | Leaking Underground Storage Tank | UIC | Underground Injection Control |
MACT | Maximum Achievable Control Technology | USC | United States Code |
MCL | Maximum Containment Level | USGS | U.S. Geological Survey |
MTR | Minimum Technology Requirements | UST | Underground Storage Tank |
NA | Nonattainment Area | VOC | Volatile Organic Compounds |
NAAQS | National Ambient Air Quality Standard | VOL | Volatile Organic Liquid |
NACEPT | National Advisory Committee on Environmental Policy and Technology | WQM | Water Quality Management |
NESHAP | National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutant | WQS | Water Quality Standards |
NIOSH | National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health | 33/50 | An EPA project inviting manufacturers to make reductions in 17 targeted chemicals. The numbers refer to the national goals of 33% reduction by the end of 1992 and 50% reduction by the end of 1995. |