EQAB Acronym List
ACHP Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
ACP Accelerated Cleanup Proposal/Plan
AEHSP American Environmental Health Studies Project
AFORR Advocates For the Oak Ridge Reservation
AM Action Memorandum
AMSE American Museum of Science and Energy
APES Advanced Placement Environmental Science (class at ORHS)
ARAP Aquatic Resources Alteration Permit
ARAR Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate Requirement
ARD America Recycles Day
ASER Annual Site Environmental Report
ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials
BCV Bear Creek Valley
BFI Browning-Ferris Industries
BJC Bechtel Jacobs Company, LLC
BNFL British Nuclear Fuels, Ltd
BV Bethel Valley
BWXT Y-12 team of BWX Technologies Inc. and Bechtel National Inc.,
BYBY Boneyard/Burnyard (waste site at Y-12)
BZA Board of Zoning Appeals
CAP Citizens Advisory Panel
CCR Consumer Confidence Report
CDBG Community Development Block Grant(s)
CDC Centers for Disease Control
CDM Camp, Dresser & McKee (an environmental consulting firm)
CEDE Committed Effective Dose Equivalent
CEQ Council on Environmental Quality (U.S. federal)
CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CGT Center for Government Training (at UT)
CH Contact Handled (as in "contact handled waste"
CH2M Hill (an environmental engineering consulting firm;
CNF Central Neutralization Facility (at ETTP)
CIP Capital Improvements Program
Corps Army Corps of Engineers
COR City of Oak Ridge
CRADA Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
CROET Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee
D&D Decontamination and Decommissioning
DCG Derived Concentration Guide
DNAPL Dense Nonaqueous-Phase Liquid
DNFSB Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
DOD Department of Defense
DOE Department of Energy
DOE ORO EPD DOE ORO Environmental Protection Division
DOE-OO Department of Energy Oversight Office
DOE-ORO Department of Energy - Oak Ridge Operations
DOI Department of the Interior
DOT Department of Transportation
DQO Data Quality Objective
DSSI Diversified Scientific Services, Inc.
DSWM Division of Solid Waste Management
DSY Drum Storage Yard
DU Depleted Uranium
DUF6 Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride
DUST Division of Underground Storage Tanks (in TDEC)
EA Environmental Assessment
ECA Energy Communities Alliance
ECRWP East Chestnut Ridge waste pile
ED-1 Economic Development 1
ED-3 Economic Development 3
ED-6 Economic Development 6
EDS Electronic Data Systems
EE/CA Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis
EFPC East Fork Poplar Creek
EH Same as ES&H
EIS Environmental Impact Statement
EM Environmental Management
EMEF Environmental Management and Enrichment Facilities
EMP Environmental Monitoring Plan
EMPACT Environmental Monitoring for Public Access and Community Tracking
EMWMF EM Waste Management Facility
EOI Expression of Interest
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
EPH Extractable Petroleum Hydrocarbons
EQAB Environmental Quality Advisory Board
ER Environmental Restoration Program
ESD Explanation of Significant Differences
ES&H Environment, Safety and Health
ESRI Environment Systems Research Institute, Inc. (suppliers of GIS software)
ETDD East Tennessee Development District
ETEBA East Tennessee Environmental Business Association
ETTP East Tennessee Technology Park
EUWG End Use Working Group
FACA Federal Advisory Committee Act
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
FFA Federal Facility Agreement
FFCA Federal Facilities Compliance Act
FFTF Fast Flux Test Facility (nuclear reactor at DOE Hanford Site in Washington)
FGS Foundation for Global Sustainability
FHWA Federal Highway Administration
FIR Federal Industry and Research (a city zoning classification)
FOIA Freedom of Information Act (federal statute)
FONSI Finding of No Significant Impact
FORNL Friends of ORNL
FR Federal Register
FS Feasibility Study
FUSRAP Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program
FY Fiscal Year
GAAT Gunite and Associated Tanks
GCEP Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Process
GDP Gaseous Diffusion Plant
GI Gilligan's Island or Gastrointestinal
GIS Geographic Information System
GPS Global Positioning System
GTS Duratek former name of a company in the radioactive waste management business
GW ground water
GWOR Greenways Oak Ridge
HAP Hazardous Air Pollutant
HAZWRAP Hazardous Waste Remedial Actions Program (no longer in operation)
HEPA High Efficiency Particle Arrestor or High-Efficiency Particulate Air (type of filter)
HEU Highly Enriched Uranium
HFIR High Flux Isotope Reactor (acronym pronounced "high-fer"; a research reactor at ORNL)
HHW household hazardous waste
HP Health Physics or Health Physicist
HSWA Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments
HTML Hypertext Markup Language (format for Internet files)
HW hazardous waste
IND Industrial (abbreviation used in City zoning classifications)
IPS Institute for Public Service (at UT)
IRC Information Resource Center (DOE facility that used to be next door to Big Ed's Pizza)
IROD Interim Record of Decision
ISCORS Interagency Steering Committee on Radiation Standards
ISV in-situ vitrification
K-25 DOE facilities in northwestern Oak Ridge; now called ETTP
LCB Life Cycle Baseline
LDR Land Disposal Restricted (term used in RCRA regulations)
LEFPC Lower East Fork Poplar Creek (portion of EFPC downstream from Y-12)
LEPC Local Emergency Planning Committee
LLC Limited Liability Company (similar to "Ltd." or "Inc.")
LLD Lower Limit of Detection
LLLW Liquid Low Level Waste
LLMW Low Level Mixed Waste
LLW Low Level [radioactive] Waste
LMER Lockheed Martin Energy Research -- former M&O contractor for ORNL
LMES Lockheed Martin Energy Systems
LOC Local Oversight Committee
LTS Long-Term Stewardship
LUCAP Land Use Control Assurance Plan
LUCIP Land Use Control Implementation Plan
LWV League of Women Voters
M&I [contractor] Management and Integrating [contractor]
M&O [contractor] Management and Operating [contractor]
MAP Mitigation Action Plan
MCL Maximum Concentration Limit or Maximum Containment Level
MDA Minimum Detectable Activity
M&EC Materials and Energy Corporation
MLLW Mixed Low Level Waste
MMCOR Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge (also called MMC)
MNA Monitored Natural Attenuation
MOA Memorandum of Agreement
MOU Memorandum of Understanding
MSC Manufacturing Sciences Corporation (now part of BNFL)
MSRE Molten Salt Reactor Experiment
MTAS Municipal Technical Advisory Service (part of UT IPS)
MV Melton Valley
NAAQS National Ambient Air Quality Standards
NABIR Natural and Accelerated Biological Remediation
NCEDR National Center for Environmental Decision Making Research (at University of Tennessee)
NDAA National Defense Authorization Act
NEPA National Environmental Policy Act
NERP National Environmental Research Park
NESHAP National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants
NFA No Further Action
NFI No Further Investigation
NFS Nuclear Fuel Services (a company in Erwin, Tennessee)
NG newly generated (as in "waste")
NGO non-governmental organization
NHF New Hydrofracture Facility (it's old now, but newer than OHF)
NHP Natural Heritage Program
NHPA National Historic Preservation Act
NIEHS National Institute for Environmental Health and Safety
NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
NI PEIS Nuclear Infrastructure Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
NNSA National Nuclear Security Administration
NOAA National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
NORM naturally occurring radioactive material
NOV notice of violation
NOx oxides of nitrogen
NO2 nitrogen dioxide
NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
NPL National Priorities List (better known as the "list of Superfund sites")
NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRDA Natural Resources Damage Assessment
NRDC Natural Resources Defense Council (a nongovernmental organization)
NSF National Stakeholders Forum (also National Science Foundation)
NTS Nevada Test Site
OCAW Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers (labor union, now known as PACE)
OECD Office of Environmental Compliance and Documentation
OHF Old Hydrofracture Facility
OMB Office of Management and Budget
OR Oak Ridge
ORAU Oak Ridge Associated Universities
ORCA Oak Ridge Communities Allied (a consortium of environmental organizations)
ORCVB Oak Ridge Convention and Visitors Bureau
OREJC Oak Ridge Environmental Justice Council
OREPA Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance
ORHASP Oak Ridge Health Agreement Steering Panel
ORHPA Oak Ridge Heritage and Preservation Association
ORHS Oak Ridge High School
ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ORO Oak Ridge Operations (DOE's local office is DOE "Oak Ridge Operations")
ORR Oak Ridge Reservation
ORRA Oak Ridge Rowing Association
ORR EM Oak Ridge Reservation Environmental Management
OR SSAB Oak Ridge Site-Specific Advisory Board
ORR EUWG Oak Ridge Reservation End Use Working Group
ORRPC Oak Ridge Regional Planning Commission
ORV off-road vehicle
OS Office of Science (in DOE)
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSR Operational Safety Requirement
OU Operable Unit (under CERCLA)
OUO Official Use Only
P&A plugging and abandonment (of old wells)
PACE labor union; formerly OCAW
PAH Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
PBS Project Baseline Summary
PCB Polychlorinated biphenyl
PDF Portable Document Format (Internet file format used with Adobe Acrobat)
PEIS Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
PM-10 particulate matter, diameter smaller than 10 micrometers (air pollution term)
POTW publicly owned treatment works (a.k.a. municipal wastewater treatment plant)
PP Proposed Plan
PPA Property Protection Area (refers to security areas at DOE facilities)
ppb parts per billion
ppm parts per million
ppt parts per trillion
PRG Preliminary Remediation Goal
PUD Planned Unit Development
QA Quality Assurance
QC Quality Control
RA Remedial Action
RAR Remedial Action Report
RAWP Remedial Action Work Plan
RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
REDC Radiochemical Engineering Development Center (facility at ORNL)
RER Remediation Effectiveness Report
RFP Request for Proposal
RH Remote Handled
RI Remedial Investigation
RI/FS Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study
RmA Removal Action
RmAR Removal Action Report
ROD Record of Decision
ROI Region of Influence
RQ Reportable Quantity
RTG Radioisotope Thermal Generator
S&M surveillance and maintenance
SAIC Science Applications International Corporation
SAP Sampling and Analysis Plan
SARA Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (statutory amendments to CERCLA)
SCEJC Scarboro Community Environmental Justice Council
SEG Scientific Ecology Group (company that formerly owned the Duratek facilities)
SEPPC Southeast Exotic Pest Plant Council
SET SouthEastern Technology (a company)
SHEA Safety, Health, and Environmental Affairs
SHPO State Historic Preservation Office (or Officer)
SIOU Surface Impoundments Operable Unit (in BV)
SNF Spent Nuclear Fuel
SNS Spallation Neutron Source (being built at ORNL; see http://www.sns.gov)
SOCM Save Our Cumberland Mountains (an organization)
SSAB Site-Specific Advisory Board
STP Site Treatment Plan
SVOC semi-volatile organic compound
SW Surface Water or Storm Water or Solid Waste
SWG Stewardship Working Group
SWSA Solid Waste Storage Area
TACIR Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
TAG Technical Assistance Grant
TBD to be determined
TCLP Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (a RCRA test)
TCWP Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning
TDA Tennessee Department of Agriculture
TDEC Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation
TDOT Tennessee Department of Transportation
T&E Threatened and Endangered (species)
TEMA Tennessee Emergency Management Agency
TEP Transportation Enhancement Program
TERC Tennessee Emergency Response Commission
TN-EPPC Tennessee Exotic Pest Plant Council (now SEPPC)
TND Traditional Neighborhood Development
TOA Tennessee Oversight Agreement
TOSHA Tennessee OSHA
TPH Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons
TRAC The RadioActivist Campaign (see http://radioactivist.org/)
TRI Toxic Release Inventory
TRU Transuranic
TSCA Toxic Substances Control Act
TSCA incinerator DOE incinerator at ETTP
TSDF Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facility
TVA Tennessee Valley Authority
TVERC Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition
TWRA Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
UCL Upper Confidence Limit
UEFPC Upper East Fork Poplar Creek (portion of EFPC on Y-12 property)
UF6 Uranium Hexafluoride
USEC United States Enrichment Corporation
UST underground storage tank
UT University of Tennessee
UT-Battelle M&O contractor for ORNL
VOC Volatile Organic Compound
WAC Waste Acceptance Criteria
WAG Waste Area Grouping
WBS Work Breakdown Structure (in normal English, you would call this a "project")
WETF West End Treatment Facility (at Y-12)
WIPP Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (underground disposal site for DOE TRU waste; in New Mexico)
WMPEIS Waste Management Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
X-10 DOE facilities in Bethel Valley, Oak Ridge (main ORNL site)
Y-12 DOE facilities in Bear Creek Valley, Oak Ridge
YD Young Democrats
