AEC Atomic Energy Commission

AEDB-R Army Environmental Data Base-Restoration

AET Advanced Environmental Technology, Inc.

AMC Army Materiel Command

amsl above mean sea level

AO American Ordnance

ARARs Applicable, Relevant and Appropriate Requirements

ATSDR Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

BAECP Burlington Atomic Energy Commission Plant

BERA Baseline Ecological Risk Assessment

bgs Below Ground Surface

BLRA Baseline Risk Assessment

btoc below top of casing

CADR Corrective Action Design Report

CAMU Corrective Action Management Unit

cc cubic centimeter

CC Critical Concentration

CDL Construction Debris Landfill

CDM CDM Federal Programs Corporation

CEA Cap Extension Area

CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act

CEWES Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station

CFR Code of Federal Regulations

cm/sec centimeters per second

CO Contracting Officer

COC Contaminant of Concern

COPC Contaminant of Potential Concern

COPEC Contaminant of Potential Ecological Concern

COR Contracting Officer's Representative

CSM Conceptual Site Model

CTA Central Test Area

CTC Cost-to-Complete

CWP Contaminated Waste Processor

cy cubic yards

DERA Defense Environmental Restoration Account (currently called ER,A)

DERP Defense Environmental Restoration Program

DI de-ionized

DNT Dinitrotoluene

DNX di-nitroso breakdown product of RDX

DO Dissolved Oxygen

DOD Department of Defense

DOE Department of Energy

DPT Direct Push Technology

DQO Data Quality Objective

DSERTS Defense Site Environmental Restoration Tracking System

DU Depleted Uranium

EBP East Burn Pads

ECC Environmental Chemical Corporation

ED Enhanced Degradation

EDA Explosive Disposal Area

EE/CA Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis

EOD Explosive Ordnance Disposal

EPA Environmental Protection Agency

ER,A Environmental Restoration, Army (formerly called DERA)

ERC Emergency Response Center

ESD Explanation of Significant Differences

ERG Environmental Research Group, Inc.

ESS Explosive Safety Submission

EWI Explosive Waste Incinerator

FAWP Fly Ash Waste Pile

ft/ft feet per foot

FFA Federal Facilities Agreement

FFS Focused Feasibility Study

FFWP Facility-Wide Work Plan

FS Feasibility Study

FTP Fire Training Pit

FUSRAP Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program

FY Fiscal Year

g gram

GAC Granular Activated Carbon

GIS Geographical Information System

GOCO Government-owned, contractor-operated

GPS Global Positioning System

GW Groundwater

HGL HydroGeologic, Inc.

HI Hazard Index

HMX High Melting Explosives (Octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocine)

HQ Hazard Quotient

HRR Historical Records Review

HRS Hazard Ranking Score

HSA Historical Site Assessment

IAAAP Iowa Army Ammunition Plant

IAG Interagency Agreement

IAP Installation Action Plan

IDA Inert Disposal Area

IDNR Iowa Department of Natural Resources

IDPH Iowa Department of Public Health

InDA Incendiary Disposal Area

IOP Iowa Ordnance Plant

IPP Industrial Preparedness Plan

IRA Interim Remedial Action

IROD Interim Record of Decision

IRP Installation Restoration Program

LAP Load, Assemble, Pack

LDR Land Disposal Restriction

LOAEL Lowest Observed Adverse Effects Level

LTM Long Term Monitoring

LTTD Low Temperature Thermal Desorption

LUC Land Use Control

LUCIP Land Use Control Implementation Plan

LUST Leaking Underground Storage Tank

M&H Mason & Hanger

MACOM Major Command

MACS Modular Artillary Charge System

MARSSIM Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and Site Investigation Manual

MCL Maximum Contaminant Level

MD Munitions Debris

MEC Munitions and Explosives of Concern

MKM MKM Engineers, Inc.

mm Millimeter

MMRP Military Munitions Response Program 

MNA Monitored Natural Attenuation

MNX mono-nitroso breakdown product of RDX

MR Munitions Response

MSC Major Sub-Command

ug/L micrograms per liter

mg/L milligrams per liter

mg/Kg milligrams per kilogram

mL milliliter

mV millivolt

MW Monitoring Well

MWH Montgomery Watson Harza

NBP North Burn Pads

NBPLF North Burn Pads Landfill

NCP National Contingency Plan

NFA No Further Action

NOAEL No Observed Adverse Effects Level

NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

NPL National Priorities List

OD Open Demolition

ORP Oxidation Reduction Potential

OSC Operations Support Command

OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration

OU Operable Unit

PA Preliminary Assessment

PAH Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbon

PCB Polychlorinated Biphenyl

PCP Pentachlorophenol

PDS Possible Demolition Site

PEP Pyrotechnic

PID Photoionization detector

POL Petroleum, Oil & Lubricants

PM Project Manager

PPE Personal Protective Equipment

PP Proposed Plan

ppb Parts Per Billion

ppm Parts Per Million

PRG Preliminary Remediation Goal

O&M Operation and Maintenance

QAPP Quality Assurance Project Plan

QA/QC Quality Assurance/Quality Control

RA Remedial Action

RAA Remedial Alternatives Analysis

RA(C) Remedial Action - Construction

RA(O) Remedial Action - Operation

RAO Remedial Action Objective

RAB Restoration Advisory Board

RAD Radionuclides

RAWP Remedial Action Work Plan

RBCA Risk Based Corrective Action

RC Response Complete

RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

RD Remedial Design

RDX Royal Demolition Explosive (Hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine) also known as cyclonite

REDOX oxidation-reduction potential

REM Removal

RG Remedial Goal

RI Remedial Investigation

ROD Record of Decision

RRSE Relative Risk Site Evaluation

SARA Superfund and Reauthorization Act

S&A Supervision & Administration

S&R Supervision & Review

SECOM Security Command

SI Site Inspection

SLERA Screening Level Ecological Risk Assessment

SOP Standard Operating Procedures

SOW Scope of Work

SSHP Site Safety and Health Plan

STP Sewage Treatment Plant

SVE Soil Vapor Extraction

SVOC Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds

SWMU Solid Waste Management Unit

TCE Trichloroethene

TCLP Toxicity Characteristics Leaching Procedure

TIA Temporary Inactive

TNB Trinitrobenzene

TNT Trinitrotoluene

TNX tri-nitroso breakdown product of RDX

TOC Total Organic Carbon

Tt Tetra Tech, Inc. 

URS URS Corporation

USACE United States Army Corps of Engineers

USACHPPM United States Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine

USAEC United States Army Environmental Command

USAEHA United States Army Environmental Hygiene Agency (currently called CHPPM)

USATHAMA United States Army Toxic and Hazardous Material Agency (currently called AEC)

USDA United States Department of Agriculture

USEPA United States Environmental Protection Agency

UST Underground Storage Tank

UXO Unexploded Ordnance

VOC Volatile Organic Compounds

WAM Wide Area Mine

WBPA West Burn Pads Area

WBPLF West Burn Pads Landfill

WES Waterways Experiment Station