Abbreviation

Definition

BMP

Best Management Practice

BOD

Biological Oxygen Demand

CAA

Clean Air Act

CAFO

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation

CERCLA

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

COD

Chemical Oxygen Demand

CSO

Combined Sewer Overflow

CWA

Clean Water Act

DBP

Disinfection Byproduct

DO

Dissolved Oxygen

DP

Dissolved Phosphorus

EPCRA

Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act

ESA

Endangered Species Act

FEMA

Federal Emergency Management Agency

FIFRA

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act

FIRM/dFIRM

(digital) Flood Insurance Rate Map

FIS

Flood Insurance Study

HAB

Harmful Algal Bloom

MAR

Managed Aquifer Recharge

NARS

National Aquatic Resources Survey

NFIP

National Flood Insurance Program

NOx

Nitrous Oxides

NPDES

National Pollution Discharge Elimination System

PAH

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

PCB

Polychlorinated Biphenyls

PFAS

Per- and Poly-Fluoroalkyl Substances

POTW

Publicly Owned Treatment Works

RCRA

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

RMSL

Relative Mean Sea Level

SDWA

Safe Drinking Water Act

SOx

Sulphur Oxides

SSO

Sanitary Sewer Overflow

TKN

Total Kjehdahl Nitrogen

TMDL

Total Maximum Daily Load

TN

Total Nitrogen

TP

Total Phosphorus

TSCA

Toxic Substances Control Act

TSS

Total Suspended Solids

USEPA

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

USGS

U.S. Geological Survey

VLM

Vertical Land Motion

WOTUS

Water of the United States