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A

A-E Architectural-Engineering (Contracting Code)

AEC Army Environmental Center

AF Air Force (also, Headquarters United States Air Force - HQ USAF)

AFB Air Force Base

AF/CE Office of the Civil Engineer, Headquarters United States Air Force (The Pentagon, Washington DC)

AF/CEV Environmental Directorate, HQ USAF (before January 1997, then changed to AF/ILEV)

AF/ILEVR Installation Logistics Environmental Restoration, HQ USAF

AFCEE Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence (Brooks AFB TX)

AFCEE/ER Environmental Restoration Directorate, AFCEE (Brooks AFB TX)

AFCEE/ERC Consultant Operations Division, AFCEE

AFCEE/ERD DERA Restoration Division, Environmental Restoration

Directorate, AFCEE (Brooks AFB TX)

AFCEE/ERS Program Support Division, AFCEE

AFCEE/ERT Technology Transfer Division, AFCEE

AFCEE/JA Legal Directorate (Judge Advocate), AFCEE

AFCEE/MMR AFCEE Operating Location, On-Site, Program Management Office, Massachusetts Military Reservation

AFCEE/MS Mission Support Directorate, AFCEE

AFCEE/MSC Mission Support-Computer Systems, AFCEE

AFCEE/MSR Mission Support-Resource Management, AFCEE

AFCEE/PA Public Affairs Directorate, AFCEE

AFCEE/REO Regional Environmental Office, AFCEE (Atlanta GA)

AFERA Air Force Environmental Restoration Account (Air Force portion of former DERA)

AFLSA Air Force Legal Services Agency (Washington DC)

AFLSA/JACE Environmental Law and Litigation Division, AFLSA

AFRIMS Air Force Restoration Information Management System

ANG Air National Guard

ANGB Air National Guard Base

ANGRC Air National Guard Readiness Center (Andrews AFB MD)

ANGRC/CEV Environmental Division, ANGRC (Andrews AFB MD)

ANGRC/CEVRO Operating Location, Environmental Division, ANGRC, On-Site at

MMR

AOC Area of Concern

ARAR Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate Requirement

ARNG Army National Guard

ATSDR Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

AVGAS Aviation Gasoline

B

BAH Booz-Allen & Hamilton (AFCEE Contractor)

BD/DR Building Demolition/Debris Removal Program, under the IRP

BGS Below Ground Surface

BOMARC Boeing Michigan Aerospace Research Center

BRA Baseline Risk Assessment

BTEX Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, Xylene

BX Base Exchange

C

CBI Consensus Building Institute (AFCEE Contractor)

CAP Community Assistance Panel

CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act

CFTA Current Fire Training Area

CHF Contaminant Hazard Factor

CIO Community Involvement Office

CIP Community Involvement Plan

CO Contracting Officer

COR Contracting Officer’s Representative

COE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, with responsibility for real estate

actions, including land access

CPRP Comprehensive Plume Response Plan and Schedule

CRP Community Relations Plan

CS Chemical Spill

CY Calendar Year; also Coal Yard

D

DCE Dichloroethylene

DD Decision Document

MassDEP Department of Environmental Protection, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

DERA Defense Environmental Restoration Account (replaced with several service-specific accounts in FY97)

DERP Defense Environmental Restoration Program

DoD Department of Defense

DPH Department of Public Health, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

DSRP Drainage Structure Removal Program

DUSD(ES) Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Environmental Security

E

EC Engineering Contractor (Jacobs Engineering Group)

EDB Ethylene Dibromide

EDMDSS Electronic Data Management Decision Support System

EE/CA Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis

EM Evaluation Monitor (on cost plus award fee contracts)

EOEA Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

ETR Extraction/Treatment/Reinjection

F

FFA Federal Facility Agreement

FFERDC Federal Facilities Environmental Restoration Dialogue Committee

FS Feasibility Study; also Fuel Spill

FTA Fire Training Area

FY Fiscal Year

G

GIS Geographic Information System

GSE&I General Systems Engineering and Integration

H

HAZWRAP Hazardous Waste Remedial Action Program

HSC Human Systems Center (Brooks AFB TX)

HSC/PKV Environmental Contracting Division, HSC (Brooks AFB TX)

I

ID/IQ Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (a type of contract vehicle)

IR Installation Restoration

IROD Interim Record of Decision

IRP Installation Restoration Program

IRPIMS Installation Restoration Program Information Management System

ISO International Standards Organization

J

JEG Jacobs Engineering Group (AFCEE Contractor)

JPAT Joint Process Action Team (comprised of members from several

PATs)

JPO Joint Program Office

L

LF Landfill

LTM Long Term Monitoring

LTO Long Term Operation

M

MADEP Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection

MDPH Massachusetts Department of Public Health

MCL Maximum Contaminant Level

MCP Massachusetts Contingency Plan

MGL Massachusetts General Law

MIPR Military Interdepartmental Purchase Request

MIPS Master Integrated Program Schedule

MMR Massachusetts Military Reservation

MOGAS Motor Gas

MOA Memorandum of Agreement

MOU Memorandum of Understanding

MPF Migration Pathway Factor

MRG Management Review Group

N

NCP National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan

NFA No Further Action

NGB National Guard Bureau

NOR Notice of Responsibility

NPL National Priorities List

O

OBAN Operating Budget Account Number

OHW Other Hazardous Waste Operations Program, under the IRP

P

(P) Pending

P&T Pump and Treat

PA Preliminary Assessment

PAH Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbon

PAT Process Action Team

PCB Polychlorinated Biphenyl

PCE Tetrachloroethylene or perchloroethlere

PFG Plume Focus Group

PFSA Previous Fuel Storage Area

PIT Public Information Team

PMR Program Management Review

POC Point of Contact

POG Program Oversight Group

PP Proposed Plan

PPB Parts Per Billion

PPM Parts Per Million

PRA Preliminary Risk Assessment

PRP Plume Response Plan; also Potential Responsible Party

PRT Peer Review Team

Q

QA/QC Quality Assurance/Quality Control

R

RA Remedial Action

RD Remedial Design

RD&D Research, Development, and Demonstration

RF Receptor Factor

RFP Request for Proposal

RI Remedial Investigation

RI/FS Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study

ROD Record of Decision

RPM Remedial Project Manager, CERCLA designation

S

SAF Secretary of the Air Force

SAF/GC Secretary of the Air Force General Counsel

SAF/MI Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower & Installations

SAF/MIQ Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Environment,

Safety and Occupational Health

SARA Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act

SERGOU South East Regional Groundwater Operable Unit

SD Storm Drain

SETA Systems Engineering Technical Assistance

SI Site Investigation

SMB Senior Management Board

SOP Standard Operating Procedure

SOW Statement of Work

STP Sewage Treatment Plant

SVOC Semi-Volatile Organic Compound

T

TEAC Technical Environmental Affairs Committee

TCE Trichloroethylene

TIO Technology Innovation Office, USEPA

TOC Total Organic Carbon

TPM Technical Project Manager

TRET Technical Review and Evaluation Team

U

UCA Undefinitized Contract Action

USAF United States Air Force

USC United States Code of Regulations

USCG United States Coast Guard

USEPA United States Environmental Protection Agency

USEPA Region I U. S. EPA Regional Office, with responsibility for MMR

USGS U. S. Geological Service

USN U. S. Navy

UTES Unit Training Equipment Site

UV Ultra Violet

UXO Unexploded Ordnance

V

VA Veterans Administration

VOC Volatile Organic Compound

VOT Variable Oversight Training

W

WPI Waste Policy Institute (AFCEE Contractor)

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