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| AA |
Atomic Adsorption Spectroscopy (inorganics
anal.)
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| A-280 |
Amendments to SDWA which establish MCLs
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| ACGH |
American Conf. of Governmental Industrial
Hygienists
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| ACL |
Alternate Cleanup Levels
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| ACM |
Asbestos Containing Material
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| ACO |
Administrative Consent Order
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| ADI |
Acceptable Daily Intake
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| AE |
Acid Extractable Compounds (AE+10) Part
of BN/AE
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| A/E |
Architectural/Engineering
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| AHERA |
Federal Asbestos Hazard Emergency Abatement
Act
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| AHPA |
Archaeological Resources Protection Act
of 1979
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| AIC |
Acceptable Intake for Chronic Exposure
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| AIS |
Acceptable Intake for Subchronic Exposure
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| AOC |
Area of concern (or contamination)
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| APF |
Assigned Protection Factor
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| ARARS |
Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate
Requirements Include Federal or State standards, requirements
criteria, or limitations.
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| ASTM |
American Society for Testing and Materials
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| ASTSWMO |
Association of State and Territorial
Solid Waste Management Officials
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| ATSDR |
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry (CDC)
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| ATTIC |
Alternative Treatment Technology Information
Center
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| AWQC |
Ambient Water Quality Criteria
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| BA |
Biological Assessment
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| BCF |
Bioconcentration Factor
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| BDAT |
Best Demonstrated Available Technology
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| BEI |
Biological Exposure Indices
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| BOD |
Biological Oxygen Demand
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| BN |
Base Neutral Compounds (BN+10, BNE) Part
of BN/AE
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| BN/AE |
Base Neutral/Acid Extractable Compounds,
semivolatiles
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| BTAG |
Biological Technical Assistance Group
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| BTEX |
Benzene, Toluene, Ethyl benzene, xylenes
(also BTX)
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| BTU |
British Thermal Units (heat unit)
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| CA |
Cooperative Agreement
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| CAA |
Clean Air Act (Federal)
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| CAFRA |
Coastal Area Facility Review Act (DEP)
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| CAG |
Carcinogen Assessment Group (EPA)
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| CAMU |
Corrective Action Management Unit (RCRA)
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| CaPAH |
Carcinogen Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
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| CBI |
Confidential Business Information
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| CC |
Calibration Compound
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| CDC |
Center for Disease Control
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| CDDs |
Chlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins
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| CDFs |
Chlorinated Dibenzofurans
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| CDI |
Chronic Daily Intake
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| CEAM |
Center for Exposure Assessment Modeling
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| CEC |
Cation Exchange Capacity
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| CEPP |
Chemical Emergency Preparedness Program
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| CERCLA |
Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation and Liability Act
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| CERCLIS |
CERCLA Information System
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| CFR |
Code of Federal Regulations
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| CGA |
Combustible Gas Analyzer
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| Ci |
Curie (radiation unit)
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| CIR |
Color Infrared
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| CLP |
Contract Laboratory Program
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| CM |
Corrective Measures
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| CO |
Contracting Officer
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| COD |
Chemical Oxygen Demand
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| CPM |
Critical Path Method
also Certified Public Manager
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| CRP |
Community Relations Plan
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| CRDL |
Contract Required Detection Limit
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| CRQL |
Contract Required Quantitation Limit
under the CLP
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| CRS |
Cultural Resources Survey
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| CTRL |
Chronic Toxicity Reference Level
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| CV |
Coefficient of Variation
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| CVAA |
Cold Vapor Atomic Adsorption Spectroscopy
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| CWA |
Clean Water Act
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| CZMA |
Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972
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| D |
Absorbed Dose (radiation)
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| DCF |
Dose Conversion Factor
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| DL |
Detection Limit
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| DNAPL |
Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid
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| DNPH |
Dinitrophenyl Hydrazine
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| DO |
Dissolved Oxygen
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| DOC |
Department of Commerce (Federal)
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| DoD |
Department of Defense
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| DOI |
Department of the Interior (Federal)
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| DOT |
Department of Transportation
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| DPCC/DCR |
Discharge Prevention, Containment and
Countermeasure Plan/Discharge Cleanup and Removal Plan
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| DQO |
Data Quality Objectives
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| DRE |
Destruction and Removal Efficiency
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| DTW |
Domestic Treatment Works
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| EA |
Endangerment Assessment (also Environ.
Assess.)
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| EC50 |
Median effective concentration during
a bioassay
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| ECD |
Electron Capture Detector
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| ECRA |
Environmental Cleanup Responsibility
Act (New Jersey)
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| EDD |
Enforcement Decision Document
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| EE/CA |
Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis
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| EEM |
Environmental Evaluation Manual (EPA)
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| EHS |
Extremely Hazardous Substance
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| EIS |
Environmental Impact Statement
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| EO |
Executive Order
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| EM |
Electromagnetic (usually refers to a
type of geophysics survey)
also Environmental Media
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| EMSL |
Environmental Monitoring Support Laboratory,
Las Vegas
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| EPA |
Environmental
Protection Agency (Federal-USEPA)
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| EP |
Extraction Procedure
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| EPCRA |
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know
Act
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| EPIC |
Environmental Photographic Interpretation
Center
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| EPTOX |
Extraction Procedure Toxicity Test (leachability
Test)
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| ERA |
Expedited Response Action
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| ERRIS |
Emergency and Remedial Response Information
System
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| ERT |
Environmental Response Team
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| ESA |
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Federal)
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| ESD |
Document which Explains Significant Differences
to ROD
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| ESI |
Expanded site investigation
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| FCC |
Fiscal Control Center
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| FEMA |
Federal Emergency Management Agency
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| FID |
Flame Ionization Detector
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| FFS |
Focused Feasibility Study
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| FIT |
Field Investigation Team
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| FIFRA |
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide
Act
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| FMS |
Financial Management System
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| foc |
Fraction Organic Carbon in Soil
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| FPXRF |
Field Portable X-Ray Fluorescence (inorganics)
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| FS |
Feasibility Study (See RAA
also)
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| FSP |
Field Sampling Plan
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| FTS |
Federal Telephone System
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| FWPCA |
Federal Water Pollution Control Act
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| FWS |
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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| FY |
Fiscal Year
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| GAC |
Granular Activated Carbon
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| GAO |
General Accounting Office
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| GC |
Gas Chromatography
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| GC/MS |
Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectroscopy
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| GFAA |
Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
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| GIS |
Geographic Information System
also General Information Submission (ECRA)
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| GPC |
Gel Permeation Chromatography
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| GPR |
Ground Penetrating Radar
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| HAP |
Hazardous Air Pollutants
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| HEA |
Health and Environmental Assessment
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| HEAST |
Health Effects Assessment Summary Tables
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| HEEP |
Health and Environmental Effects Profile
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| HHEM |
Human Health Evaluation Manual (EPA replaces
SPHEM)
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| HI |
Hazard Index (for noncarcinogens)
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| HMR |
Hazardous Materials Regulations
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| HMTA |
Hazardous Materials Transportation Act
(Federal)
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| HOC |
Halogenated Organic Compounds
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| HPLC |
High Pressure Liquid Chromatography
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| HSL |
Hazardous Substance List
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| HSO |
Health and Safety Officer
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| HSWA |
Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments
(to SARA)
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| HQ |
EPA Headquarters
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| HRS |
Hazard Ranking System
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| HRSD |
Hazardous Response Support Division
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| HWS |
Hazardous waste sites
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| IA |
Innovative Alternatives
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| IAG |
Inter-Agency Agreement
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| ICP |
Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission
Spectrophotometry
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| ID |
Infrared Detector
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| IDL |
Instrument Detection Limit
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| IDLH |
Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health
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| IEMP |
Interim Environmental Monitoring Plan
(during design)
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| IEUBK |
Integrated Exposure Uptake Biokinetic
Model - EPA model used to develop residential direct
contact lead soil cleanup criteria
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| IFB |
Invitation for bids
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| IG |
Inspector General
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| IRIS |
Integrated Risk Information System
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| IRL |
Interagency review letter
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| IRM |
Interim or Initial Remedial Measure
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| ISAL |
Interim Soil Action Level(s)
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| ISRA |
Industrial
Site Recovery Act (1070)
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| ISV |
In Situ Vitrification
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| Kd |
Soil/Water Partition Coefficient
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| Koc |
Organic Carbon Absorption Coefficient
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| Kow |
Octanol/Water Partition Coefficient
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| KPEG |
Potassium Hydroxide/Polyethylene glycol
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| kV |
Kilovolts
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| LAER |
Lowest Achievable Emission Rate
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| LC50 |
Median lethal concentration in a bioassay
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| LD50 |
Dose causing 50% mortality in bioassay
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| LDR |
Land Disposal Restrictions
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| LEL |
Lower Explosive Limit
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| LOAEL |
Lowest Observable Adverse Effect Level
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| LOD |
Limit of Detection
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| LOE |
Level of Effort
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| LOL |
Limit of Linearity
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| LOQ |
Limit of Quantitation
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| LQG |
Large Quantity Generator (NJDEPE-RCRA)
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| MACT |
Maximum Achievable Control Technology
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| MA7CD10 |
Minimum average 7 consecutive day flow
with a statistical recurrence interval of 10 years
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| MBE |
Minority Business Enterprise
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| MCL |
Maximum Contaminant Level (for drinking
water)
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| MCLG |
Maximum Contaminant Level Goals (for
drinking water)
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| MDL |
Method Detection Limit
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| MEK |
Methyl Ethyl Ketone (2-Butanone)
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| MeV |
Million electron volts
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| MGD |
Million Gallons per Day
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| MOA |
Memorandum of Agreement
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| MOU |
Memorandum of Understanding
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| MPRSA |
Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries
Act |
| MRATS |
Major Remedial Action Tracking System
(NJDEP)
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| MS |
Mass Spectrometer
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| MS/MSD |
Method Spike/Method Spike Duplicate (QA/QC
term)
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| MSCA |
Multi-Site Cooperative Agreement
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| MSHA |
Mine Safety and Health Administration
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| MSDS |
Material Safety Data Sheet
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| MSP |
Medical Surveillance Plan
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| MTBE |
Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether
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| MUL |
Maximum Use Limit (respiratory protection)
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| NAAQS |
National Ambient Air Quality Standards
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| NAPL |
Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid
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| NBS |
National Bureau of Standards
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| NCP |
National Oil and Hazardous Substances
Pollution Contingency Plan (40 CFR 300)
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| NEIC |
National Enforcement Information Center
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| NEPA |
National Environmental Policy Act
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| NESHAP |
National Emission Standards for Hazardous
Air Poll.
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| NFIP |
National Flood Insurance Program
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| NHPA |
National Historic Preservation Act of
1966
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| NIOSH |
National Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health
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| NJAC |
New Jersey Administrative Code
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| NJDEP |
New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection
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| NJR |
New Jersey Register
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| NJSA |
New Jersey Statutes Annotated
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| NJAPCA |
New Jersey Air Pollution Control Act
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| NJPCA |
New Jersey Pesticide Control Act
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| NJPDES |
New Jersey Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System
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| NJWPCA |
New Jersey Water Pollution Control Act
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| NOAA |
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric
Administration
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| NOAEC |
No-observable-adverse-effect-level
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| NOEC |
No-observable-effect-concentration
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| NOAEL |
No-observed-adverse-effect-level
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| NPDES |
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System
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| NPL |
National Priorities List
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| NPS |
National Park Service
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| NRC |
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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| NRHP |
National Register of Historic Places
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| NTGS |
National Technical Guidance Studies
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| NTIS |
National Technical Information Service
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| NVLAP |
National Voluntary Laboratory Approval
Program
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| NWI |
National Wetlands Inventory
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| OERR |
Office of Emergency and Remedial Response
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| O&M |
Operation and Maintenance
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| OMB |
Office of Management and Budget
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| ORD |
Office of Research and Development (EPA
- Cinn., Ohio)
To order EPA publications call (513) 569-7562
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| OSC |
On-Scene Coordinator
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| OSHA |
Occupational Safety and Health Administration,
U.S. Department of Labor
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| OSWER |
Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response
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| OU |
Operable Unit
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| OVA |
Organic Vapor Analyzer
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| OWPE |
Office of Waste Programs Enforcement
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| PA |
Preliminary Assessment
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| PAC |
Project Activity Code
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| PAH |
Polycyclic (Polynuclear) Aromatic Hydrocarbon
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| PA/SI |
Preliminary Assessment/Site Investigation
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| PCB |
Polychlorinated Biphenyls. Syn. - Arochlors
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| PCE |
Tetrachloroethylene, Syn. - Perchloroethylene,
Perc
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| pCi |
Picocurie (equiv. 10-12 Curie
radiation)
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| PCDD |
Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins
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| PCDF |
Polychlorinated Dibenzofurans
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| PEG |
Polyethylene Glycol (KPEG - hydrodechlorination)
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| PEL |
Permissible Exposure Limit
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| PF |
Protection Factor
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| PHA |
Public Health Assessment
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| PHC |
Petroleum Hydrocarbons (see TPH)
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| PID |
Photoionization Detector
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| pKa |
Acid Dissociation Constant
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| PO |
Project Officer
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| POETS |
Point of entry treatment system (for
potable water)
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| POHC |
Principal Organic Hazardous Constituent
(emissions)
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| POP |
Project Operations Plan
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| POTW |
Publicly Owned Treatment Works
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| PP |
Proposed Plan (Equiv. to PRAP)
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| PP |
Priority Pollutant List, PP+40 - with
40 Tentatively Identified Compounds
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| ppb |
Parts per billion (ug/Kg, ng/g)
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| PPE |
Personal Protective Equipment
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| ppm |
Parts per million (mg/Kg, ug/g)
also Priority Pollutant Metals (PPM)
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| ppt |
Parts per trillion (ng/Kg, pg/g)
also Parts per thousand (salinity)
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| PRAP |
Proposed Remedial Action Plan (Equiv.
to PP)
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| PRM |
Project Response Matrix
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| PRP |
Potentially Responsible Party
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| PSI |
Pounds per square inch
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| PTFE |
Polytetraflouroethylene (Teflon - trademark)
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| PUF |
Polyurethane foam sampling media (air
sampling media)
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| PVC |
Polyvinyl Chloride
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| q1* |
Cancer Potency Factor, risk
mg/kg body Wt. per day
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| QA/QC |
Quality Assurance/Quality
Control
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| QAPP |
Quality Assurance Project
Plan (also QAPjP)
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| QAPMP |
Quality Assurance Project
Management Plan
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| RA |
Regional Administrator (EPA)
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| RAA |
Remedial Alternative Analysis from Section
5 of 7:26E (Equiv. to FS)
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| RAGS |
Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund
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| RAS |
Routine Analytical Services
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| RAWP |
Remedial Action Workplan, required as
per 7:26E-6.2
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| RBE |
Relative Biological Effectiveness
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| RCRA |
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
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| RD |
Remedial Design
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| RD/RA |
Remedial Design/Remedial Action
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| REL |
Recommended Exposure Limit
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| REM |
Remedial Planning Contractor (for EPA)
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| RFA |
RCRA Facility Assessment
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| RFI |
RCRA Facility Investigation
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| RfD |
Reference Dose, toxicity value for noncarcinogens
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| RfDdt |
Developmental Reference Dose
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| RfDs |
Subchronic Reference Dose
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| RFP |
Request for Proposals
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| RFQ |
Request for Qualifications
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| RI |
Remedial Investigation
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| RI/FS |
Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study
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| RIWP |
Remedial Investigation Work Plan
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| RMCL |
Recommended Maximum Contaminant Level
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| RMP |
Risk Management Plan
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| RME |
Reasonable Maximum Exposure
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| ROD |
Record of Decision
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| RPD |
Relative Percent Difference %RPD=100x2(X1-X2)/(X1+X2)
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| RPM |
Remedial Project Manager (EPA)
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| RQ |
Reportable Quantity
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| RSCRC |
Regional Superfund Community Relations
Coordinator
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| RSD |
Risk Specific Dose
also Relative Standard Deviation (%)
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| RTK |
Right To Know (Act)
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| SAP |
Sampling and Analysis Plan
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| SAS |
Special Analytical Services
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| SASS |
Source Assessment Sampling System
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| SARA |
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization
Act
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| SCBA |
Self Contained Breathing Apparatus
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| SCS |
Soil Conservation Service
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| SDWA |
Safe Drinking Water Act
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| SEAM |
Superfund Exposure Assessment Manual
(EPA)
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| SES |
Site Evaluation Submission (ECRA)
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| SF |
Slope Factor
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| SI |
Site Investigation or inspection
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| SIA |
Standard Intake Assumption
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| SIC |
Standard Industrial Classification
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| SITE |
Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation
Program
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| SLCP |
Secondary Landfill Conventional Parameters
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| SMP |
Site Management Plan
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| SOP |
Standard Operating Procedure
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| SOW |
Scope of Work or Statement of Work
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| SPHEM |
Superfund Public Health Evaluation Manual
(HHEM - new)
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| SPOC |
Single Point of Contact
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| SQC |
Sediment Quality Criteria
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| SQG |
Small Quantity Generator (NJDEPE-RCRA)
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| SQL |
Sample Quantitation Limit
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| SSC |
Superfund State Contract
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| STEL |
Short Term Exposure Limit
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| SVE |
Soil Vacuum (Vapor) Extraction
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| SVOC |
Semivolatile Organic Compounds (same
as BN/AE)
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| SW-846 |
EPA Test Methods for
Evaluating Solid Wastes
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| SWDA |
Solid Waste Disposal Act
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| SWMU |
Solid Waste Management Unit (RCRA)
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| TAL |
Target Analyte List (Inorganics)
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| TAT |
Technical Assistance Team
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| TBA |
Tertiary (Tert) Butyl Alcohol
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| TBC |
To be Considered (refers to ARARs)
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| TC |
Toxicity Characteristic
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| TCDD |
Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, usually
2,3,7,8-TCDD
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| TCDF |
Tetrachlorodebenzofuran
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| TCA |
1,1,1-Trichloroethane
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| TCE |
Trichloroethylene, Syn. - Trichloroethene
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| TCL |
Target Compound List (TCL+30)
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| TCLP |
Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure
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| TCPA |
Toxic
Catastrophe Prevention Act (New Jersey)
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| TEF |
Toxicity Equivalency Factor (risk compared
to TCDD)
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| TEGD |
Technical Enforcement Guidance Document
(EPA, 1986)
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| TIC |
Tentatively Identified Compounds from
Mass Spec. Library Search.
Syn. - Non-Target Compounds
also Total Ion Chromatogram
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| TLV |
Threshold Limit Value (respiratory protection)
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| TMDL |
Total Maximum Daily Load
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| TOC |
Total Organic Carbon
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| TSCA |
Toxic Substances Control Act
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| TOX |
Total Organic Halogen analysis
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| TPH |
Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (see PHC)
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| TRIS |
Toxic Release Inventory System
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| TWA |
Time Weighted Average
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| UCL |
Upper Confidence Limit (usually 95%)
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| UCS |
Unconfined Compressive Strength
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| UEL |
Upper Explosive Limit
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| UGST |
Underground Storage Tank (also UST)
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| USACE |
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (also COE)
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| USATHAMA |
U.S. Army Toxic and Hazardous Materials
Agency
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| USEPA |
United
States Environmental Protection Agency
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| USGS |
U.S. Geological
Survey
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| UV |
Ultraviolet
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| VO |
Volatile Organics (VOC, VOA, VO+10)
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| VOC |
Volatile Organic Compounds
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| VOST |
Volatile Organic Sampling Train (air
sampling)
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| VSP |
Vertical Seismic Profiling
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| VTSR |
Verified Time of Sample Receipt
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| WA |
Wilderness Act
also Work Assignment
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| WBE |
Women's Business Enterprise
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| WHO |
World Health Organization
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| WP |
Work Plan
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| WPCA |
Water Pollution Control Act
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| WQC |
Water Quality Criteria
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| WSRA |
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
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| XRF |
X-Ray Fluorescence, Syn. (FPXRF) - Field
Portable XRF
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