List of Acroynms Used

• Author: Margaret 'Peggy' Strand/Lowell Rothschild
• Pages: 11-11

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ACRONYMSUSED

ANPRM Advanced Notice of Proposed

Rulemaking

APA Administrative Procedure Act

ASCS Agricultural Stabilization and

Conservation Service

ASWM Association of State Wetland

Managers, Inc.

ATF after-the-fact

BMP best management practice

CBM coal bed methane

CBRS Coastal Barrier Resource System

CCEP Comprehensive Conservation

Enhancement Plan

CEQ President’s Council on Environmental

Quality

Corps U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

CRP Conservation Reserve Program

CWA Clean Water Act

CZAR A Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization

Amendments

CZMA Coastal Zone Management Act

DNR Department of Natural Resources

DOI Department of the Interior

DOJ Department of Justice

EA environmental assessment

ECARP Environmental Conservation Acreage

Program

ELI Environmental Law Institute

EO Executive Order

EPA Environmental Protection Agency

EQIP Environmental Quality Incentives

Program

ESA Endangered Species Act

FEMA Federal Emergency Management

Agency

FERC Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

FHwA Federal Highway Administration

FONSI nding of no signicant impact

FSA Food Security Act of 1985

FWCA Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act

FWP Farmable Wetland Program

FWPCA Federal Water Pollution Control Act

FWS U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

GAO Government Accountability Oce,

formerly General Accounting Oce

GRP Grassland Reserve Program

HEP Habitat Evaluation Procedure

IP individual permit

IRT Interagency Review Team

JD jurisdictional determination

LOP letter of permission

MOA memorandum of agreement

MOU memorandum of understanding

NAD National Appeals Division

(Department of Agriculture)

NAS National Academy of Sciences

NEPA National Environmental Policy Act

NFIP National Flood Insurance Program

NFSM National Food Security Act Manual

NHPA National Historic Preservation Act

NIF navigable-in-fact

NNPS National Nonpoint Source

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

NPDES national pollutant discharge

elimination system

NPS National Park Service

NRC National Resource Council

NRCS Natural Resource Conservation Service

NTCHS National Technical Committee for

Hydric Soils

NTHP National Trust for Historic

Preservation

NWI National Wetlands Inventory

OMB Oce of Management and Budget

OSM Oce of Surface Mining

PEIS programmatic environmental impact

statement

RA Regional Administrator (of EPA)

RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery

Act

RGL regulatory guidance letter

RHA Rivers and Harbors Act

ROD record of decision

SAMP Special Area Management Plan

SEP supplemental environmental project

SMCRA Surface Mining Control and

Reclamation Act

SOF statement of ndings

SPGP State Program General Permit

SWANCC Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook

County v. Corps of Engineers

TEA-21 Transportation Equity Act for the 21st

Century

TMDL total maximum daily load

USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture

WHIP Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program

WQC Water Quality Control

WRDA Water Resources Development Act

WRP Wetlands Reserve Program