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EPCRA Tutorial

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A: AEA — Atomic Energy Act; Ames — Ames Laboratory; ANL — Argonne National Laboratory; APA — Administrative Procedure Act; ARAR — Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate Requirement; ASRF — Advanced Size Reduction Facility; ATSDR — Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

B: BACT — Best Available Control Technology; BAT — Best Available Technology; BCT — Best Conventional Pollutant Control Technology; BDAT — Best Demonstrated Available Technology; BNA — Bureau of National Affairs. BNA is a private company which specializes in documents relating to federal laws, regulations, and other activities.; BNL — Brookhaven National Laboratory; BOARD — Illinois Pollution Control Board (or IPCB); BOD — Biological Oxygen Demand; BPA — Bonneville Power Administration; BPT — Best Practicable Technology

C: CAA — Clean Air Act; CAI — controlled air incineration; CAS Number — Chemical Abstract Service Number. A number assigned to each unique chemical substance by the Chemical Abstract Service. It is analogous to a social security number for chemicals. A chemical, like a person, may have several nicknames or may even have the same name as another chemical. The CAS number acts as a positive identification for a chemical.; CAS — Chemical Abstract Service. The CAS assigns CAS numbers to all known chemicals as a way of tracking chemical identities and facilitating the organization of abstracts for chemical literature.; CERCLA — Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (see also SARA or Superfund). The original Federal law which provides avenues for performing cleanup of badly polluted sites.; CERCLIS — Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System; CFR — Code of Federal Regulations. The publication in which the federal government records regulations. Each Title of the CFR pertains to a general area of federal regulations, i.e., 40 CFR deals with environmental issues, 10 CFR deals with energy issues, and 32 CFR deals with national defense.; CGL — Comprehensive General Liability Insurance Policy; Classic Emergency Removal — actions that are performed when a release requires that activities be initiated within hours of the determination that a removal action is appropriate.; COD — Chemical Oxygen Demand; COE — US Army Corps of Engineers; Community Relations Activities — The programs and processes through which the ERPM keeps the public apprised of the current status and plans of the removal action.; CRP — Community Relations Plan; CWA — Clean Water Act (or WQA (Water Quality Act of 1987))

D: D&B # — Dun and Bradstreet Number. D & B is a private organization which keeps records on businesses and issues credit ratings. D & B issues an identification number to each business so that the business can be tracked regardless of management changes and relocations. EPA uses D & B numbers to identify and track regulated facilities.; Discovery — Notification, observance or detection of a release or substantial threat of release or discharge of a hazardous substance or oil into the environment; DO — Dissolved Oxygen; DOC — Department of Commerce; DOD — Department of Defense; DOE — U.S. Department of Energy; DOI — Department of Interior; DOJ — Department of Justice; DOT — Department of Transportation; DP — DOE's Office of Defense Programs

E: EA — Environmental Assessment; ECIS — Economic Impact Statement; ECRA — (New Jersey) Environmental Cleanup Responsibility Act; EDD — Enforcement Decision Document; EE/CA — Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis; EH — DOE's Office of Environment, Safety and Health; EHS — Extremely Hazardous Substance. The list of EHSs is found in 40 CFR 355 Appendices A and B. EHSs are regulated under Sections 302, 304, 311, and 312 of EPCRA.; EIL — Environmental Impairment Liability (Insurance Provision); EIS — Environmental Impact Statement; EM — DOE&339;s Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management; EPA — Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA was given authority to promulgate and enforce regulations under EPCRA.; EPCRA — Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986 (or Title III of SARA) (or R-T-K). Congress issued EPCRA as a part of SARA. EPCRA allows communities the right to know what chemicals are being stored, used, and released from industrial facilities and businesses.; ERA — Expedited response action - removal action performed by remedial project managers (RPMs) using removal funds at sites that are in some phase of the remedial process.; ERC — Emissions Reduction Credit; ERPM — Environmental Restoration Program Manager; ERPO — Environmental Restoration Program Official; ESDs — Explanation of Significant Differences (From The ROD); ESI — Expanded Site Inspection; Expedited response action — removal action performed by remedial project managers (RPMs) using removal funds at sites that are in some phase of the remedial process.

F: FBI — fluidized bed incinerator; FE — DOE's Office of Fossil Energy; FEMA — Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA is a federal agency which provides guidance for preparing for emergencies ranging from earthquakes to chemical releases.; Fermi — Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; FFA — Federal Facility Agreement; FFCA — Federal Facility Compliance Agreement and Compliance Order on Consent; FIFRA — Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act; FIP — Federal Implementation Plan; FMPC — Feed Materials Production Center; FOIA — Freedom of Information Act; Form R — Toxic Chemical Release Inventory Reporting Form. The reporting form for Section 313. A complete Form R must be submitted for each reportable TC.; FR — Federal Register. The publication in which the federal government issues new regulations, orders, and notices. Each year the GPO publishes the CFR which encompasses any changes to federal regulations which occurred in the FR the previous year.; FS — Feasibility Study (see RI/FS); FY — fiscal year

G: GAeG — Graphic Approach to Environmental Guidance. A unique method of presenting guidance for complying with environmental requirements. It employs flowcharts, checklists, reference materials to present environmental guidance in an accurate, easily understandable way.; GPO — Government Printing Office. The GPO publishes documents for the federal government. Several EPCRA publications are available from the GPO.

H: Hanford — Hanford Site; HC — Hazardous Chemical. HCs are defined by OSHA as chemicals which pose a physical or health hazard (29 CFR 1910.120). Since this definition covers hundreds of thousands of substances, there is no definitive list of HCs.; HCS — OSHA Hazard Communication Standard; HM — Hazardous Material. Although this term is specifically defined by the DOT (49 CFR 172), it is informally used to designate a material which poses certain hazards regardless of its strict regulatory classification.; HMTA — Hazardous Materials Transportation Act; HRS — Superfund Hazard Ranking System; HS — Hazardous Substance. The list of HSs is found in 40 CFR 302.4. HSs are regulated under Section 304 of EPCRA. They are often referred to as the CERCLA HSs.; HSWA — Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984 (see RCRA or SWDA); HW — Hazardous Waste. Waste material which is regulated by RCRA.; HWHF — Hazardous Waste Handling Facility

I: I&M — Inspection and Maintenance; ID # — EPA Identification Number. Facilities must obtain an EPA ID number under RCRA.; IDC — Item Description Code; IDENR — Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources; IEP — Act Illinois Environ. Protection Act, Ill. Rev. Stat. Chpt. 111.5; IEPA — Illinois Environmental Protection Agency; INEEL — Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory; Interim action — any action taken at a site under either removal or remedial authority prior to implementing the final action described in a ROD or prior to the ROD's becoming final. Interim actions must neither be inconsistent with nor preclude implementation of the final remedy.; Interim Remedial Action (IRA) — a subset of interim actions. IRAs are non-final remedial actions performed at sites; they make use of early action operable unit to pursue a record of decision based on existing data or a focused, limited data-gathering effort.; IPCB — Illinois Pollution Control Board (or Board); ITRI — Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute; IU — Industrial User (of a POTW)

J: JCAR — Illinois General Assembly Joint Committee on Administrative Rules

K: KC Plant — Kansas City Plant

L: LAER — Lowest Achievable Emission Rate; LANL — Los Alamos National Laboratory; LBNL — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; LDR(s) — Land Disposal Restriction(s); LDU — Land Disposal Units; LEPC — Local Emergency Planning Committee. Local organizations set up by EPCRA to prepare local emergency response plans and act as a conduit of hazard information for the public.; LLNL — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; LLW — low level waste; LTRA — Long-Term Remedial Action

M: M&O — Managing and Operating Contractor (usually refers to DOE facility); MCL — Maximum Contaminant Level; MCLG — Maximum Contaminant Level Goal; MEI — Maximally Exposed Individual (Risk Concept Under CERCLA HRS); METC — Morgantown Energy Technology Center; MGD — Million Gallons Per Day; MOU — Memorandum of Understanding; Mound — Mound Plant; MSDS — Material Safety Data Sheet. Documents describing the properties of hazardous chemicals. MSDSs are required by OSHA to be available near HCs for safety purposes (29 CFR 1910.120).; MWMF — Mixed Waste Management Facility

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