Acronym | Definition |
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AAMP | Ambient Air Modeling Plan |
AC | Hydrogen cyanide |
AChE | Acetylcholinesterase |
ACGIH | American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists |
AEGL | Acute Exposure Guideline Level |
ATSDR | Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (of HHS) |
AUES | American University Experimental Station |
BMD | Benchmark Dose |
BZ | 3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate |
CA-REL | California EPA’s Reference Exposure Level |
CAFS | Chemical Agent Filtration System |
CalEPA | California Environmental Protection Agency |
CAMEO | Computer-Aided Management of Emergency Operations |
CDC | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
CERCLA | Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act |
CG | Carbonyl chloride (phosgene) |
CIR | Critical Information Requirements |
CK | Cyanogen chloride |
COA | Course of Action |
CONOPs | Concept of Operations |
CSF | Oral/Cancer Slope Factor |
CSM | Conceptual Site Model |
CWA | Chemical Warfare Agent |
CX | Phosgene oxime |
DDOE | District of Columbia Department of the Environment |
DEP | Department of Environmental Protection (local) |
DHEC | Department of Health and Environmental Control (local) |
DHS | Department of Homeland Security |
DOD | Department of Defense |
DOE | Department of Energy |
DOI | Department of Interior |
DOT | Department of Transportation |
DP | Diphosgene |
DU | Decontamination Unit |
ECS | Engineering Control System |
EOC | Emergency Operations Center |
EPA | Environmental Protection Agency |
ERPG | Emergency Response Planning Guideline |
ES&H | Environmental Safety and Health |
EU | Environmental Unit |
FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation |
FEMA | Federal Emergency Management Agency |
FGA | Fourth Generation Agent |
FSLTT | Federal, state, local, tribal and territorial |
FUDS | Formerly Used Defense Site |
GA | Tabun |
GB | Sarin |
GD | Soman |
GF | Cyclosarin |
GPL | General Population Limit |
HASP | Health and Safety Plan |
HAZMAT | Hazardous material |
HAZWOPER | Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Standard (29 CFR 1910.120) |
HBESL | Health-Based Environmental Screening Level |
HD | Sulfur mustard |
HEAST | Health Effects Assessment Summary Table |
HHS | Department of Health and Human Services |
HI | Hazard Index |
HN | Nitrogen mustard |
HSPD | Homeland Security Presidential Directive |
HSRP | Homeland Security Research Program |
HVAC | Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning System |
IAB | Information Analysis Brief |
IAP | Incident Action Plan |
IC | Incident Commander |
ICS | Incident Command System |
IC/UC | Incident Command/Unified Command |
IDLH | Immediately dangerous to life or health |
IMAAC | Interagency Modeling and Atmospheric Assessment Center |
IRIS | Integrated Risk Information System |
IUPAC | International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry |
IUR | Inhalation Unit Risk |
JFO | Joint Field Office |
JIC | Joint Information Center |
Kow | Octanol-water partition coefficient |
L | Lewisite |
LOAEL | Lowest observed adverse effect level |
LOC | Level of Concern |
µg/cm2 | Micrograms per square centimeter |
µg/m3 | Micrograms per cubic meter |
mg/kg-day | Milligrams per kilograms of body weight per day |
mg/L | Milligrams per liter |
mg/m3 | Milligrams per cubic meter |
MCL | Maximum Contaminant Level |
MRL | Minimum Risk Level |
NAS | National Academy of Science |
NIMS | National Incident Management System |
NIOSH | National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health |
NOAEL | No observed adverse effect level |
NRC | National Research Council |
NRF | National Response Framework |
NRT | U.S. National Response Team |
NSF | National Strike Force |
NSTC | National Science and Technology Council |
NTA | Non-Traditional Agent |
OSHA | Occupational Safety and Health Administration |
OSTP | Office of Science and Technology Policy |
PAL | Provisional Advisory Level |
PEL | Permissible Exposure Limits |
PIO | Public Information Officer |
POD | Point of Departure |
POI | Point of Interest |
PPB | Parts per billion |
PPE | Personal protective equipment |
PPM | Parts per million |
PPRTV | Provisional Peer-Reviewed Toxicity Value |
PS | Chloropicrin |
QAPP | Quality Assurance Project Plan |
QSAR | Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship |
RAGS | Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund |
RAP | Remedial Action Plan |
RBC | Risk Based Concentration |
REL | Recommended Exposure Limit |
RfC | Inhalation reference concentration |
RfD | Oral reference dose |
RI/FS | Remedial investigation/feasibility study |
SAP | Sampling and Analysis Plan |
SCBA | Self-contained breathing apparatus |
SLTT | State, local, tribal and territorial |
SSC | Science Support Coordinator |
START | Superfund Technical Assessment and Response Team |
STEL | Short-term Exposure Limit |
STSC | Superfund Health Risk Technical Support Center |
TEEL | Temporary Emergency Exposure Level |
TIC | Toxic Industrial Chemical |
TIM | Toxic Industrial Material |
TLV | Threshold Limit Values |
TSD | Technical Support Document |
TWA | Time Weighted Average |
UC | Unified Command |
USACE | United States Army Corps of Engineers |
USCG | United States Coast Guard |
USDA | United States Department of Agriculture |
USGS | United States Geological Survey |
VX | O-Ethyl S-(2-diisopropylaminoethyl) methylphosphonothiolate |
WMP | Waste Management Plan |
WPL | Worker Population Limit |
2-PAM Cl | 2-pyridine aldoxime methyl chloride |
Acronyms and Abbreviations
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