| Acronym |
Description |
| ACGIH |
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists |
| AIHA |
American Industrial Hygiene Association |
| ANSI |
American National Standards Institute |
| API |
American Petroleum Institute |
| ASTM |
American Society for Testing and Materials |
| ATSDR |
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry |
| BACT |
Best Available Control Technology |
| BFI |
Bonafide intent |
| BOD |
Biological Oxygen Demand |
| CAA |
Clean Air Act |
| CAAA |
Clean Air Act Amendments |
| CAIR |
Comprehensive Assessment Information Rule |
| CAS |
Chemical Abstract Service |
| CBI |
Confidential Business Information |
| CDC |
Centers for Disease Control |
| CEM |
Continuous Emission Monitoring |
| CEPA |
Canadian Environmental Protection Act |
| CERCLA |
Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation Liability Act of 1980 |
| CFATS |
Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards |
| CFR |
Code of Federal Regulations |
| ChAMP |
Chemical Assessment and Management Program |
| CHEMTREC |
Chemical Transportation Emergency Center |
| CMP |
Chemical Management Program (Canada) |
| CMR |
Carcinogen, mutagen, reproductive toxin |
| CNS |
Central Nervous System |
| COD |
Chemical Oxygen Demand |
| CPSC |
Consumer Product Safety Commission |
| CSAT |
Chemical Security Assessment Tool |
| CSB |
Chemical Safety Board |
| CSHIB |
Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board |
| CWA |
Clean Water Act |
| DMR |
Discharge Monitoring Report |
| DO |
Dissolved Oxygen |
| DOD |
Department of Defense |
| DOE |
Department of Energy |
| DOJ |
Department of Justice |
| DOT |
Department of Transportation |
| DSL |
Domestic Substances List (Canada) |
| ECHA |
European Chemicals Agency |
| EHS |
Extremely Hazardous Substance (can double as Environmental Health & Safety) |
| EMS |
Environmental Management System (also see ISO14000) |
| EPA |
Environmental Protection Agency |
| EPCRA |
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act |
| FDA |
Food and Drug Administration |
| FIFRA |
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act |
| FOI |
Freedom of Information |
| FR |
Federal Register |
| GHS |
Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals |
| GLP |
Good Laboratory Practices |
| GMP |
Good Manufacturing Procedures |
| GPO |
Government Printing Office |
| GRAS |
Generally Recognized as Safe |
| HAP |
Hazardous Air Pollutant |
| HazWoper |
29 CFR 1910.120 - requirement to have all employees trained if they will be handling, managing or shipping hazardous wastes |
| HMIRC |
Hazardous Materials Information Review Commission (Canada) |
| HON |
Hazardous Organic NESHAP |
| HSDB |
Hazardous Substance Database |
| HWIR |
Hazardous Waste Identification Rule (by EPA) |
| IARC |
International Agency for Research on Cancer |
| IDLH |
Immediate Danger to Life or Health |
| IRIS |
Integrated Risk Information System (EPA) |
| ISO |
International Organization for Standardization |
| ISO14000 |
The ISO standard for environmental management systems |
| ITC |
Interagency Testing Committee |
| IUR |
Inventory Update Rule |
| LC50 |
Lethal Concentration 50; concentration lethal to 50% of the animals LDLO |
| LCA |
Life Cycle Analysis/ Assessment |
| LCA |
Life Cycle Analysis |
| LCLO |
Lethal Concentration Low; the lowest concentration at which death occurred |
| LD50 |
Lethal Dose 50; dose lethal to 50% of the animals |
| LDR |
EPA's Land Disposal Restrictions |
| LEED |
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design |
| LEL |
Lower explosive limit |
| LEPC |
Local Emergency Planning Committee |
| LOAEL |
Lowest-observed-adverse-effect level |
| LOEL |
Lowest Observed Effect Level |
| MACT |
Maximum Achievable Control Technology |
| MARPOL |
International Convention on the Prevention of Pollution from Ships |
| MCL |
Maximum Concentration Limit or Level |
| MSDS |
Material Safety Data Sheet |
| MSHA |
Mine Safety and Health Administration |
| NAAQS |
National Ambient Air Quality Standards |
| NAICS |
North American Industry Classification System |
| NDSL |
Non-domestic Substances List (Canada) |
| NESHAP |
National Emissions Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants |
| NFPA |
National Fire Protection Act |
| NIH |
National Institutes of Health |
| NIOSH |
National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health |
| NOAEL |
No observed adverse effect level |
| NOC |
Notice of Commencement |
| NOEL |
No observed effect level |
| NoMI |
Notice of Manufacture/Import (Canada) |
| NPDES |
National Pollutantion Discharge Elimination System |
| NRC |
National Response Center; can double as National Research Council |
| NSC |
National Safety Council |
| NSN |
New Substances Notification (Canada) |
| NSPS |
New Source Performance Standards |
| NTIS |
National Technical Information Service |
| NTP |
National Toxicology Program |
| ODS |
Ozone Depleting Substances |
| OECD |
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
| OEL |
Occupational Exposure Limit |
| OPPT |
Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics |
| OPPTS |
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances |
| OSHA |
Occupational Safety and Health Administration |
| OSW |
Office of Solid Waste |
| OSWER |
Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response |
| P2 |
Pollution Prevention |
| PAIR |
Preliminary Assessment Information Rule |
| PBT |
Persistent, Bioaccumulative, Toxic |
| PCB |
Polychlorinated biphenyl |
| PEL |
Permissible Exposure Limit |
| PM-10 |
Particulate Matter< 10 Micrometers |
| PMN |
Premanufacture Notification |
| POTW |
Publicly Owned Treatment Works |
| PPB |
Parts Per Billion |
| PPE |
Personal Protective Equipment (such as gloves, repirators, etc.) |
| PPM |
Parts Per Million |
| PRP |
Potentially Responsible Parties |
| PSM |
Process Safety Management |
| QA/QC |
Quality Assurance/Quality Control |
| R&D |
Research and Development |
| RACT |
Reasonably Available Control Technique |
| RCRA |
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 - resulted in hazardous waste regulations - 40 CFR Parts 260 to 280 |
| REACH |
Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (EU) |
| REL |
Recommended Exposure Limit (NIOSH) |
| RfC |
Inhalation Reference Concentration |
| RfD |
Oral Reference Dose |
| RI/FS |
Remedial Investigation/ Feasibility Study |
| RMP |
Risk Management Plan |
| RQ |
Reportable Quantity |
| RTECS |
Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances |
| SARA |
Superfund Amendment Reauthorization Act |
| SDS |
Safety data sheet |
| SDWA |
Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 |
| SERC |
State Emergency Response Commission |
| SIC |
Standard Industrial Classification |
| SIEF |
Substance Information Exchane Forum |
| SIP |
State Implementation Plan |
| SOCMA |
Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association |
| SPCC |
Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures |
| SPDES |
State Pollutant Discharge Elimination |
| STEL |
Short Term Exposure Limit. Unless designated otherwise, it is a 15 minute TWA exposure that could not be exceeded at any time during a workday. |
| SWPPP |
Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan |
| TCLP |
Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure; test required under RCRA to determine the toxicity and characteristics of hazardous waste and the potential for migration |
| TLV |
Threshold Limit Value |
| TOC |
Total Organic Carbon |
| TPQ |
Threshold Planning Quantity |
| TQ |
Threshold Quantity |
| TRI |
Toxic Release Inventory |
| TSCA |
Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 |
| TSDF |
Treatment, Storage, or Disposal Facility (permitted hazardous waste facility) |
| TWA |
Time Weighted Average |
| UEF |
Unified Emission Factors (for boat building MACT standard) |
| UEL |
Upper explosive limit |
| USCG |
United States Coast Guard |
| USDA |
United States Department of Agriculture |
| UST |
Underground Storage Tanks (RCRA) |
| UTS |
Universal Treatment Standards |
| VOC |
Volatile Organic Compounds |
| WHMIS |
Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (Canada) |
