ACRONYMS USED IN THESE TECHNICAL APPENDIXES

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 (NBS)

CD-ROM

Compact Disc-Read Only Memory

CERCLA

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act

CNAEL

Committee on National Accreditation of Environ-mental Laboratories

CWA

Clean Water Act

DMIS

Data Management and Information 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 Administration

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 (USEPA)

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 Authori

USACE

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

USDA

U.S. Department of Agriculture

USDOI

U.S. Department of the Interior

USEPA

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

USFS

U.S. Forest 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

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