| Acronym |
Name |
| AFB |
U.S. Air Force Base |
| AFCEE |
Air Force Center for Engineering
Excellence (AFCEE) |
| 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 |
| AST |
Aboveground Storage Tank |
| 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 |
| COD |
Chemical Oxygen Demand |
| CROW |
Contained Recovery of Oily Waste |
| CRREL |
U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and
Engineering Laboratory |
| CWA |
Clean Water Act |
| 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 |
| EM |
DOE's Environmental Management |
| EPA |
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| ERD |
Environmental Restoration Division |
| ERL |
Environmental Research Laboratory |
| ETTC |
DOD Environmental Technology Transfer
Committee |
| FETC |
DOE's Federal Energy Technology Center |
| FRTR |
Federal Remediation Technologies
Roundtable |
| FS |
Feasibility Study |
| GAC |
Granular-Activated Carbon |
| HEC |
High Energy Corona |
| HLRW |
High Level Radioactive Waste |
| HMCRI |
Hazardous Materials Control Research
Institute |
| HTTD |
High Temperature Thermal Desorption |
| HWAC |
Hazardous Waste Action Council |
| INEL |
DOE's Idaho National Engineering
Laboratory |
| IR |
Installation Restoration |
| IRHWCT |
Installation Restoration and Hazardous
Waste Control Technologies |
| ISEE |
In Situ Steam-Enhanced Extraction |
| ISV |
In Situ Vitrification |
| ITRC |
Interstate Technology & Regulatory
Cooperation |
| KPEG |
Potassium Polyethylene Glycolate |
| LDR |
Land Disposal Restriction |
| LLNL |
DOE's Lawerence Livermore National
Laboratory |
| LLRW |
Low Level Radioactive Waste |
| LNAPL |
Light Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid |
| LTTD |
Low Temperature Thermal Description |
| MCL |
Maximum Contaminant Level |
| MRD |
U.S. Army Missouri River Division |
| NAPL |
Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid |
| NAS |
Naval Air Station |
| NCA |
Noise Control Act |
| NCEL |
Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory,
now NFESC |
| NCP |
National Contingency Plan |
| NDCEE |
DOD's National Defense Center for
Environmental Excellence |
| 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 |
National Priority List |
| NRC |
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
| NRMRL |
EPA's National Risk Management
Research Laboratory |
| NWS |
Naval Weapons Station |
| O&M |
Operations and Maintenance |
| OB/OD |
Open Burn/Open Detonation |
| ODW |
EPA Office of Drinking Water |
| OERR |
EPA's Office of Emergency and Remedial
Response |
| ORD |
EPA Office of Research and Development |
| ORNL |
DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| OSHA |
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration |
| OSW |
EPA Office of Solid Waste |
| OSWER |
EPA's Office os Solid Waste and
Emergency Response |
| OUST |
EPA's Office of Underground Storage
Tanks |
| PACT |
Powdered-Activated Carbon Technology |
| PAH |
Polycylic Aromatic Hydorcarbons |
| PCBs |
Polychlorinated Biphenyls |
| PCP |
Pentachlorophenol |
| PEP |
Propellants, Explosives, and
Pyrotechnics |
| PII |
Platinum International, Inc. |
| PNL |
DOE's Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory |
| POC |
Point of Contact |
| POL |
Petroleum, Oils, and Lubricants |
| 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's Risk Reduction Engineering
Laboratory |
| RSKERL |
EPA's Robert S. Kerr Environmental
Research Laboratory |
| RTDF |
Remediation Technologies Development
Forum |
| 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 |
| SNL |
DOE's Sandia National Laboratory |
| SVE |
Soil Vapor Extraction |
| SVOC |
Semivolatile Organic Compound |
| TCE |
Trichlorethylene |
| TCLP |
EPA's Toxicity Characteristic Leaching
Procedure |
| TI |
Technical Impracticability |
| TIO |
EPA's Technology Innovative Office |
| TOC |
Total Organic Carbon |
| TPH |
Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons |
| TRU |
Transuranic Waste |
| TSCA |
Toxic Substance Control Act |
| USGS |
DOI's U.S. Geological Survey |
| 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 |
| USCRREL |
See CRREL |
| USAMC |
U.S. Army Material Command |
| USN |
U.S. Navy |
| USATHAMA |
U.S. Army Toxic and Hazardous Material
Agency, now USAEC |
| UST |
Underground Storage Tank |
| UV |
Ultraviolet |
| UXO |
Unexploded Ordnance |
| VOC |
Volatile Organic Compound |
| WESTON |
Roy F. Weston, Inc. |
