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                            ACRONYMS

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AFB       U.S. Air Force Base
AIChE     American Institute of Chemical Engineers
ALARA     As Low As Reasonably Achievable
APA       Air Pathway Analysis
APEG      Alkaline Polyethylene Glycolate
APG       Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland
ARAR      Applicable or relevant and appropriate requirement
ASCE      Americal Society of Civil Engineers (NY, NY)
AST       Aboveground Storage Tank
ATSDR     Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (a
          branch of the Centers for Disease Control)
ASTM      American Society for Testing and Materials (Phila, PA)
AWMA      Air and Waste Management Association
AWWA      American Water Works Association
BOD       Biochemical Oxygen Demand
BTEX      Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and Xylene
CAA       Clean Air Act
CEC       Cation Exchange Capacity
CERCLA    Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
          Liability Act (also known as Superfund)
CERL      U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory
CLP       Contract Laboratory Program
COD       Chemical Oxygen Demand
CROW      Contained Recovery of Oily Waste
CRL       Contract Regional Laboratory
CRP       Community Relations Plan 
CRREL     U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering
          Laboratory
CWA       Clean Water Act
DCDD      2,7-Dichlorodibenzo-p-dioxin
DNAPL     Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid
DOD       U.S. Department of Defense
DOE       U.S. Department of Energy
DOI       U.S. Department of the Interior
DOT       U.S. Department of Transportation
DRE       Destruction and Removal Efficiency
EE/CA     Engineering Evaluation and Cost Analysis (an evaluation
          of remedial alternatives for non time-critical sites)
EPA       U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
ERD       Environmental Restoration Division
ERL       Environmental Research Laboratory
ETTC      DOD Environmental Technology Transfer Committee
FRTR      Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable
FS        Feasibility Study
FWS       Fish and Wildlife Service
GAC       Granular-Activated Carbon
GC-EDC    Gas chromatograph-electron capture detection
GC/MS     Gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer

HCDD      Hexachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin
HEC       High Energy Corona
HLRW      High Level Radioactive Waste
HMCRI     Hazardous Materials Control Research Institute
HpCDD     Heptachlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin
HpCDF     Heptachlorinated dibenzofuran
HPLC      High performance liquid chromatography
HRGC/HRMS High resolution gas chromatography/ high resolution
          mass spectrometry
HTTD      High Temperature Thermal Desorption
HWAC      Hazardous Waste Action Council
HxCDD     Hexachlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin
HxCDF     Hexachlorinated dibenzofuran
IDEM      Indiana Department of Environmental Management
IR        Installation Restoration
IRHWCT    Installation Restoration and Hazardous Waste Control
          Technologies
ISEE      In Situ Steam-Enhanced Extraction
ISV       In Situ Vitrification
I-TEF     International TCDD-toxic-equivalency
KPEG      Potassium Polyethylene Glycolate
LDR       Land Disposal Restriction (restricts land disposal of
          certain RCRA wastes)
LLRW      Low Level Radioactive Waste
LNAPL     Light Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid
LTTD      Low Temperature Thermal Description
MCL       Maximum Contaminant Level(Safe Drinking Water Act)
MCLG      Maximum Contaminant Level Goal(Safe Drinking Water Act)
mg/kg     milligrams per kilogram
mg/l      millograms per litre
MRD       U.S. Army Missouri River Division
NAAQS     National Ambient Air Quality Standards
NAPL      Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid
NAS       Naval Air Station
NCA       Noise Control Act
NCEL      Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory, now NFESC
NCP       National Contingency Plan
NEESA     Navy Energy and Environmental Support Activity, now
NFESC
NEPA      National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
NFESC     Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center
NPDES     National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
NPL       U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NWS       Naval Weapons Station
O&M       Operations and Maintenance
OB/OD     Open Burn/Open Detonation
OCDD      Octachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin
OCDF      Octachlorodibenzofuran
ODW       EPA Office of Drinking Water
OERR      EPA Office of Emergency and Remedial Response
ORD       EPA Office of Research and Development
OSHA      Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSW       EPA Office of Solid Waste
OSWER     EPA Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response
PACT      Powdered-Activated Carbon Technology
PAH       Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
PCBs      Polychlorinated Biphenyls
PCDD      Polychlorinated dibenzodioxin
PCDF      Polychlorinated dibenzofuran
PCP       Pentachlorophenol
PeCDD     Pentachlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin
PeCDF     Pentachlorinated dibenzofuran
PEP       Propellants, Explosives, and Pyrotechnics
POC       Point of Contact
POL       Petroleum, Oils, and Lubricants
PPM       Parts per million (roughly equivalent to mg/kg in soil
          or mg/litre in water)
PPB       Parts per billion (roughly equivalent to ug/kg in soil
          or ug/litre in water)
PPT       Parts per trillion
R&D       Research and Development
RBC       Rotating Biological Contactor
RCRA      Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
RCRIS     Resource Conservation and Recovery Information System
RI/FS     Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study
ROD       Record of Decision
RPM       Remedial Project Manager
RREL      EPA Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory (Cincinatti
          Ohio)
RSKERL    EPA's Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory
scfm      Standard Cubic Feet per Minute
SERP      Steam-Enhanced Recovery Process
SITE      Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation
SIVE      Steam Injection and Vacuum Extraction
SNF       Spent Nuclear Fuel
SVE       Soil Vapor Extraction
SVOC      Semivolatile Organic Compound
TBDD      Tetrabominated dibenzo-p-dioxin
TBDF      Tetrabrominated dibenzo-p-furan
TCE       Trichlorethylene
TCDD      2,3,7,8- tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin
TCDF      Tetrachlorodibenzofuran
TCL/TAL   Target compound list/target analyte list
TCLP      EPA Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure
TEQ       Toxic equivalents
TOC       Total Organic Carbon
TPH       Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons
TRU       Transuranic Waste
TSCA      Toxic Substance Control Act
ug/kg     micrograms per kilogram
ug/l      micrograms per litre
USACE     U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
USAEC     U.S. Army Environmental Center
USAE-WES  U.S. Army Engineers Waterways Experiment Station
USAF      U.S. Air Force
USACERL   See CERL
USACRREL  See CRREL
USAMC     U.S. Army Materiel Command
USN       U.S. Navy
USATHAMA  U.S. Army Toxic and Hazardous Material Agency, now
USAEC     U.S. Army Environmental Center
UST       Underground Storage Tank
UV        Ultraviolet
UXO       Unexploded Ordnance
VOC       Volatile Organic Compound
yd3       Cubic Yards



Source: Compiled by MVA Consulting, Inc. From various government
publications and technical references
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