ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS 1361
HVAC—Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning
HVOC—Halogenated Volatile Organic Compound
HWC—Hazardous Waste Combustion
HWE—Healthy Worker Effect
HWI—Hazardous Wastes Inspectorate (UK)
HWIR—Hazardous Waste Identification Rule (U.S.)
HWL—High Water LevelI/A—Innovative and Alternative
IA—Index of Agreement
IAEA—International Atomic Energy Agency
IAHE—International Association for Hydrogen Energy
IAP—Indoor Air Pollution
IAP—Inter-Academy Panel
IAQ—Indoor Air Quality
IARC—International Agency for Research on Cancer
IAWPRC—International Association on Water Pollution
Research and Control
IAWQ—International Association on Water Quality
IBC—International Bulk Container
IBRD—International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (World Bank)
IC—Internal Combustion
ICAA—International Council of Chemical Associations
ICAR—Indian Council of Agricultural Research
ICBEN—International Commission on the Biological
Effects of Noise
ICBG—International Cooperative Biodiversity Grants
Program
ICD—International List of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of
Death
ICE—Institution of Civil Engineers (UK)
IC 50 —Mean Inhibitory Concentration
ICIDI—Independent Commission on International
Develop ment Issues
ICP—Integrated Contingency Plan (U.S.)
ICPD—International Conference on Population and
Development
ICP-OES—Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission
ICR—Industrial Cost Recovery
ICR—Information Correction Rule
ICRAM—Central Institute for Scientific and Technological
Research Applied to the Sea (Italy)
ICRP—International Commission on Radiological Protection
ICSU—International Council of Scientific Unions
ICT—Information Communication Technology
ICT—International Critical Table
IDEA—International Development Association
IDF—Intensity Duration Frequency
IDGEC—Institutional Dimensions of Global
Environmental Change
IDLH—Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health
IDNDR—International Decade for Natural Disaster
Reduction
IDSE—Initial Distribution System Evaluation
IDWSSD—International Drinking Water Supply and
Sanitation DecadeIE—Cationic Exchange
IE—Institute of Energy (UK)
IEA—International Energy Agency
IEC—International Electrotechnical Commission
IEE—Institute of Electrical Engineers (UK)
IEEE—Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IESWTR—Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment
Rule (U.S.)
IFB—Impaction Fiber Bed
IFC—International Finance Corporation
IFGR—Induced Flue Gas Recirculation
IFP—Institut Francais du Petrole (France)
IFR—Internal Floating Roof
IGBP—International Geosphere-Biosphere Program
IGC—Index of Grassland Condition
IGCC—Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle
IGO—Intergovernmental Organization
IGS—Inert Gas System
IGT—Institute of Gas Technology
IGY—International Geophysical Year
IHS—Indian Health Service (U.S.)
I/I—Infiltration/Inflow
IIASA—International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
IIHE—International Institute for Hydraulic and
Environ mental Engineering
IJC—International Joint Commission
IKSR—International Commission for the Protection of the
Rhine Against Pollution
ILGRA—Interdepartmental Liaison Group on Risk
Assessment (UK)
ILO—International Labor Organization
ILW—Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste
IMDG—International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code
IME—Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK)
IMF—International Monetary Fund
IMI—Imidazolinone
IMIQ—Mexican Institute of Chemical Engineers
IMO—International Maritime Organization
IMR—Infant Mortality Rate
IMS-ICS—Interagency Incident Management System-
Incident Command System (U.S.)
INEEL—Idaho National Engineering and Environmental
Laboratory (U.S.)
INSA—Institut National des Sciences Appliques (France)
InstE—Institute of Energy
INTRAVAL—International Geosphere Transport Model
Validation
INWAC—IAEA Advisory Committee
I/O—Input/Output
IOA—Input-Output Analysis
IOC—Inorganic Chemical
IOD—Immediate Oxygen Demand
IoE—Institute of Energy
IOH—Institute of Occupational Hygiene (UK)
IoP—Institute of Physics (UK)
IOP—Indian Ocean Dipole
IOPC—International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund
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