ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
ABAG Association of Bay Area Governments
ADT Average daily traffic
AIHA American Industrial Hygiene Association
APE Area of Potential Effect
AQS Air Quality Standard
ARAC Atmospheric Release Advisory Capability
ARAR Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate Requirement
ATA Advanced Test Accelerator
AVLIS Atomic Vapor Laser Isotope Separation
BAAQMD Bay Area Air Quality Management District
BART Bay Area Rapid Transit District
BEIR-V Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation, report V
(See references for Section 4)
BLM U.S. Bureau of Land Management
CAPCOA California Air Pollution Control Officers Association
CARB California Air Resources Board
CDF California Department of Forestry
CDFG California Department of Fish and Game
CEDE Committed effective dose equivalent
CEQ Council on Environmental Quality
CEQA California Environmental Quality Act
CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and
Liability Act of 1980
CFA Cognizant federal agency
CHARM™ Complex Hazardous Air Release Model, Version 6.1
CHP California Highway Patrol
Ci Curies
CM Crisis manager
CMT Crisis management team
CNEL Community Noise Equivalent Level
CPR Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
dB decibel (a measure of noise level)
dBA A-weighted decibel
DBE Design basis earthquake
DBF Design basis fire
DBW/DBT Design basis wind/design basis tornado
DHS California Department of Health Services
DOD U.S. Department of Defense
DOE U.S. Department of Energy
DOT U.S. Department of Transportation
DTSC Department of Toxic Substances Control
EDC Emergency dispatch center
EDE Effective dose equivalent
EHM Extremely hazardous material
EIR Environmental Impact Report
EIS Environmental Impact Statement
EIS/EIR Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report
EKG Electrocardiograph
EOC Emergency operations center
EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPIP Emergency plan implementing procedure
ERPG Emergency Response Planning Guidelines
ES&H Environment, safety, and health
FAH Fuel aromatic hydrocarbon
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
FDA U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
FHC Fuel hydrocarbon
FHWA Federal Highway Administration
FSP Facility safety procedure
HE High explosive
HEAF High Explosives Application Facility
HEPA High efficiency particulate air (filter)
HI Hazard Index
HM Hazardous material
HRF Hydrogen Research Facility
HVAC Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
HWM Hazardous waste management
IC Incident commander
ICRP International Commission on Radiation Protection
ICU Intersection capability utilization
IDLH Immediately-Dangerous-to-Life-and-Health
IHSG Industrial Hygiene Service Group
ISC-ST EPA Industrial Source Complex Short Term air dispersion model
JTA Joint test assembly
LAP Livermore Atmospheric Propagation (code)
Ldn Day-night average noise level
LEDO Laboratory emergency duty officer
Leq Equivalent noise level
LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
LOS Level of service
LPG Liquified petroleum gas
LVJUSD Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District
MAP Mitigation Action Plan
MCL Maximum contaminant level
MCLG Maximum contaminant level goals
MEI Maximally exposed individual
MMP Mitigation Monitoring Plan
MSL Mean sea level
NAI Non-proliferation, Arms Control, and International Security
NCRP National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements
NEPA National Environmental Policy Act
NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
NOA Notice of Availability
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOC Notice of Completion
NOD Notice of Determination
NOI Notice of Intent
NOP Notice of Preparation
NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
NPR-EIS New Production Reactor Environmental Impact Statement
NRC U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
OIC Officer in Charge
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Agency
PAG Protective Action Guide
PAH Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
PCBs Polychlorinated biphenyls
PCE Perchloroethylene
PEIS Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
PEL Permissible exposure limit
PM10 Suspended particulate material less than 10 mm in diameter
ppb Parts per billion
ppm Parts per million
PRAP Proposed Remedial Action Plan
psi pounds per square inch (pressure)
RACES Radio Amateur Communication Emergency System
rad A unit of absorbed dose
RAM Radioactive material
RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
rem A unit of dose equivalent
RMG Radiation Measurement Group
RMS Radioactive material spill
ROD Record of Decision
RWQCB Regional Water Quality Control Board, California
SA Specific activity
SAR Safety analysis report
SARA Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act
SCC Satellite command center
SDI U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)
SIS Special Isotope Separation
SMTD Stockton Metropolitan Transit District
SNL, Livermore Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore
State OES California State Office of Emergency Services
STP Standard Temperature and Pressure
TAC Toxic air contaminant
TCE Trichloroethylene
THM Trihalomethane, especially chloroform
TLD Thermoluminescent dosimeter
TLV/TWA Threshold Limit Value/Time-Weighted Average
TRCFPD Tracy Rural County Fire Protection District
TRL Tritium Research Laboratory
TRU Transuranic (waste)
TSP Total suspended particulates
U-AVLIS At LLNL, Atomic Vapor Laser Isotope Separation applied to
uranium
UC University of California
UCLA University of California at Los Angeles
UOR Unusual occurrence report
V/C Volume to capacity ratio
VISTA Verification, Intelligence, and Special Technology Analysis (Center)
VMH Valley Memorial Hospital
WIPP Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Carlsbad, NM
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