| 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 |
