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ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

AA—Atomic Adsorption

AAAS—American Association for the Advancement of

Science

ALARA—As Low As Reasonably Achievable

ALARP—As Low As Reasonably Practicable

ALPCO—Association of Local Air Pollution Control

officers (U.S.)

ALAT—Alamine Amino Transferase

ALK—Alkalinity

ALLEA—All European Academies

AM—Annual-Maximum

AMA—American Medical Association

AMD—Acid Mine Drainage

AMO—Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

AMP—Adenosine Monophosphate

AMU—Atomic Mass Unit

ANDRA—National Waste Disposal Organization

(France)

ANL—Argonne National Laboratory (U.S.)

ANOVA—Analysis of Variance

ANP—National Petroleum Agency (Brazil)

ANPR—Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (U.S.)

ANSI—American National Standards Institute

ANS—American Nuclear Society

ANTLE—Affordable Near Term Low Emissions

ANWR—Alaska National Wildlife Refuge

AOAC—Association of Official Agricultural Chemists

AOC—Area of Concern (U.S.)

AOC—Assimilable Organic Carbon

AOCS—American Oil Chemists Society

AOGCM—Atmospheric-Ocean General Circulation Model

AONB—Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (UK)

AOT—Advanced Oxidation Technology

AOX—Organochlorine

APC—Adenomatous Polyposis Coli

APC—Air Pollution Control

APCA—Air Pollution Control Association

APCS—Air Pollution Control System

APDC—Ammonium Pyrolidinodithiocarbonate

APEG—Airborne Particle Expert Group

APEM—Association of Professional Engineers of Manitoba

APHA—American Public Health Association

APHIS—Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (U.S.)

API—American Petroleum Institute

APS—Aerodynamic Particle Size

APS—American Physical Society

AQCR—Air Quality Control Region (U.S.)

AQEI—Air Quality Exposure Index

AQMD—Air Quality Management District

ARAR—Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate

Requirement

ARB—Air Resources Board

ARBRE—Arable Biomass Renewable Energy

ARDS—Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

ARM—Aluminized Red Mud

ARM—Availability, Reliability and Maintainability

ARMS—Agricultural Resources Management Study

AROI—Acceptable Range of Oral Intake

ARS—Absorption Refrigeration System

ARS—Agricultural Research Service (U.S.)

AS—Activated Sludge

AS—Australian Standard

ASBR—Anaerobic Sequencing Batch Reactor

ASCE—American Society of Civil Engineers

ASEE—American Society for Engineering Education

ASHRAE—American Society of Heating, Refrigerating

and Air Conditioning Engineers

ASLB—Atomic Safety Licensing Board (U.S.)

ASME—American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASPEN—Advanced Systems for Process Engineering

ASSE—American Society of Safety Engineers

AST—Aboveground Storage Tank

ASTM—American Society for Testing and Materials

ASTMS—Association of Scientific, Technical

and Manage ment Staffs

ASV—Anode Stripping Voltammetry

ATOC—Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate

ATOFMS—Aerosol Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer

ATP—Adenosine Triphosphate

ATP—Advanced Technology Program (U.S.)

ATS—Automatic Tracking Service

ATSDR—Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease

Registry (U.S.)

au—Absorbance Unit

AWEP—Association of Women in Environmental Professions

AWG—Association of Women Geoscientists

AWIS—Association for Women in Science

AWMA—Air and Water Management Association

AWRA—American Water Resources Association

AWSE—Association of Women in Science and

Engineering (UK)

AWWA—American Water Works Association

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