ACWDPU |
Advisory
Committee on Water Data for Public Use |
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 (a program of the
NBS, now the USGS-BRD) |
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 |