Volume II Acronyms and Abbreviations
A/D assembly/disassembly
AEC Atomic Energy Commission
AHF Advanced Hydrotest Facility
AQCR Air Quality Control Region
ARS Advanced Radiation Source
BEBA beyond evaluation basis accident
BEEF Big Explosives Experimental Facility
BEIR biological effects of ionizing radiation
CAA Clean Air Act
CEQ Council on Environmental Quality
CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
CFF Contained Firing Facility
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
Complex Nuclear Weapons Complex
CTBT Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
CWA Clean Water Act
DARHT Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test (Facility)
D&D decontamination and decommissioning
DOD Department of Defense
DOE Department of Energy
DOT Department of Transportation
DP DOE Office of the Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs
EA environmental assessment
EBA evaluation basis accident
EIS environmental impact statement
EM DOE Office of the Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
ES&H environment, safety, and health
FONSI Finding of No Significant Impact
FXR Flash X-Ray (Facility)
HAP hazardous air pollutants
HE high explosives
HEPA high efficiency particulate air (filter)
HEPPF High Explosive Pulsed Power Facility
HEU highly enriched uranium
HI hazard index
HLW high-level waste
HQ hazard quotient
ICRP International Commission on Radiological Protection
INEL Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
IP implementation plan
ICST Industrial Complex Short-Term (model)
K-25 K-25 Site, Oak Ridge Reservation
KCP Kansas City Plant
LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory
LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
LLW low-level waste
NAAQS National Ambient Air Quality Standards
NEPA National Environmental Policy Act
NESHAP National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
NIF National Ignition Facility
NLVF North Las Vegas Facility
NOI Notice of Intent
NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
NPL National Priorities List
NPR Nuclear Posture Review
NPT Non-Proliferation Treaty
NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRHP National Register of Historic Places
NTS Nevada Test Site
NWSM Nuclear Weapon Stockpile Memorandum
NWSP Nuclear Weapon Stockpile Plan
ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ORR Oak Ridge Reservation
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Pantex Pantex Plant
PBFA II Particle Beam Fusion Accelerator
PDD Presidential Decision Directive
PEIS programmatic environmental impact statement
PHERMEX Pulsed High Energy Radiation Machine Emitting X-Rays (Facility)
PL Public Law
R&D research and development
RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
RD&T research, development, and testing
RIMS Regional Input-Output Modeling System
ROD Record of Decision
ROI region of influence
SAR Safety Analysis Report
SARA Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act
SDWA Safe Drinking Water Act
SMR standardized mortality ratio
SHPO State Historic Preservation Officer
SNL Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico
SRS Savannah River Site
START Strategic Arms Reduction Talks
TA technical area
TLV-TWA threshold limit value-time weighted average
TRU transuranic
TSCA Toxic Substances Control Act
TSP total suspended particulates
USFWS U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
VOCs volatile organic compounds
Y-12 Y-12 Plant, Oak Ridge Reservation
WIPP Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
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