Acronyms Used in Technical Appendixes
ACWDPU Advisory Committee on Water Data for Public Used
ACWI Advisory Committee on Water Information
AMSA Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies
AMWA Association of Municipal Water Administrators
ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials
AWWA American Water Works Association
BCI Biotic Condition Index
BEST Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends Program (NBS)
CD-ROM Compact Disc - Read Only Memory
CERCLA Comperhensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liabiltiy Act
CNAEL Committee on National Accrediatation of Environmental Laboratories
CWA Clean Water Act
DMIS Data Management and Informantion Sharing Task Group
DMR Discharge Monthly Report
DQO Data Quality Objective
EMAP Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (USEPA)
EMMC Environmental Monitoring Management Council
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committee
FIFRA Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act
FIPS Federal Information Processing Standard
GAO Government Accounting Office
GIS geographic information system
GWFG Ground Water Focus Group
HUC Hydrologic Unit Codes
IACWD Interagency Advisory Committee on Water Data
IBI Index of Biologic Integrity
ICI Invertebrate Community Index
ISO International Standards Organization Guide
ITFM Intergovernmental Task Force on Monitoring Water Quality
MDCB Methods and Data Comparability Board
NAWQA National Water Quality Assessment (USGS)
NBS National Biological Service
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration
NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
NRC National Research Council
NRCS National Resources Conservation Service
NRDC National Resources Defense Council
NWIS National Water Information System
OMB Office of Management and Budget
OPPE Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation (USEPA)
OST Office of Science and Technology
OWDC Office of Water Data Coordination (USGS)
PBMS performance based methods system
QA/QC quality assurance/quality control
RBP Rapid Bioassessment Protocol
RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
RF3 river reach file
RPD relative percent difference
SAB Science Advisory Board
SCS Soil Conservation Service (Note: In 1994, the SCS became the National Resources Conservation Service)
STORET STOrage and
RETrieval System (USEPA)
TSCA Toxic Substances Control Act
TVA Tennessee Valley Authority
USACE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDOI U.S. Department of the Interior
USEPA U.S. Environmental Proctection Agency
USFS U.S. Forestry Service
USFWS U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
WATSTORE National WATer Data STORage and REtrieval
WDNR Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
WEF Water Environment Federation
WICP Water Information Coordination Program