acronyms and abbreviations

alpha LLMW

alpha-contaminated low-level mixed waste

AAC

acceptable ambient concentrations

AACC

acceptable ambient concentration for a carcinogen

AC

alternating current

ACGIH

American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists

ACHP

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

ACMM

Analytical Chemistry Methods Manual

AEA

Atomic Energy Act

AEC

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

ALARA

as low as reasonably achievable

amwtp

Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project

ANL-E

Argonne National Laboratory–East

ANL-W

Argonne National Laboratory–West

APCS

air pollution control system

ARF

airborne release fraction

AWFC

automatic waste feed cutoff

BACT

Best Available Control Technology

BLEVE

boiling liquid, expanding vapor explosion

BLM

Bureau of Land Management

BLR

Big Lost River

CAA

Clean Air Act

C&S

Certified and Segregated

CEDE

Committed effective dose equivalent

CEM

continuous emissions monitor

CEQ

Council on Environmental Quality

CERCLA

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

CFA

Central Facilities Area

CFR

Code of Federal Regulations

CH

Contact handled

CRD

Comment Response Document

D&D

decontamination and decommissioning

dBA

Decibel A-weighted

DMS

data management system

DOE

U.S. Department of Energy

DOE-ID

U.S. Department of Energy - Idaho Operations Office

DOE INEL EIS

Programmatic Spent Nuclear Fuel Management and Idaho National Engineering Laboratory Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Programs Final Environmental Impact Statement

DOT

Department of Transportation

DR

damage ratio

EA

Environmental Assessment

EBR-I

Experimental Breeder Reactor - I

EDE

effective dose equivalent

EDF

Engineering Design File

EEGL

emergency exposure guidance level

EIS

environmental impact statement

EM

Environmental Management

EMT

Emergency medical technician

EPA

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

EPCRA

Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act

ER

Environmental Restoration

ERPG

Emergency response planning guides

ES&H

Environment, Safety and Health

FDM

Fugitive Dust Model

FFCA

Federal Facility Compliance Act

FONSI

Finding of No Significant Impact

FR

Federal Register

GFE

government furnished equipment

HCL

hydrochloric acid

HEC

Hydrologic Engineering Center

HEPA

high-efficiency particulate air (filter)

HVAC

heating, ventilation, and air conditioning

HWMA

Hazardous Waste Management Act

HWN

hazardous waste number

ICPP

Idaho Chemical Processing Plant (now known as INTEC)

ICRP

International Commission on Radiological Protection

IDAPA

Idaho Administrative Procedures Act

IDC

item description code

IDHW

Idaho Department of Health and Welfare

IDLH

immediately dangerous to life or health

ILTSF

Intermediate-Level Transuranic Storage Facility

INEL

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory

INEEL

INTEC

Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center (formerly known as ICPP)

ISC-3

Industrial Source Complex Version 3

IWPF

Idaho Waste Processing Facility

LANL

Los Alamos National Laboratory

LDR

Land Disposal Restrictions

LESAT

Lockheed Environmental Systems and Technologies Company

LITCO

Lockheed Idaho Technologies Company

LLMW

low-level mixed waste

LMITCO

Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Company

LPF

leak path fraction

M&O

Management and Operating

MACT

maximum allowable control technology

MAR

material at risk

MCL

maximum contaminant level

MEI

maximally exposed individual

MOU

memorandum of understanding

MOX

mixed oxide

MSDS

material safety data sheet

MTS

material transfer system

NAAQS

National Ambient Air Quality Standard

NAGPRA

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

NDIR

non-dispensive infrared

NEPA

National Environmental Policy Act

NESHAP

National Emissions Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants

NHPA

National Historic Preservation Act

NOI

Notice of Intent

NON

Notice of Non-Compliance

NPDES

National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

NPS

National Park Service

NRC

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

NRF

Naval Reactors Facility

NRHP

National Register of Historic Places

NSPS

New Source Performance Standards

NWCF

New Waste Calcining Facility

OD

organic debris

OHS

organic homogeneous solids

OPC

ordinary Portland cement

OSHA

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

PBF

Power Burst Facility

PCB

polychlorinated biphenyls

PCC

primary combustion chamber

PEIS

programmatic environmental impact statement

PEL

permissable exposure limit

PES

programmable electronic system

PFA

pulverized fuel ash

ppb

parts per billion

ppm

parts per million

PREPP

Process Experimental Pilot Plant

PSAR

Preliminary Safety Analysis Report

PSD

Prevention of Significant Deterioration

RCRA

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

RF

respirable fraction

RFP

Request for Proposal

RGW

research generated waste

RH

remote handled

ROD

Record of Decision

ROI

region of influence

RSAC-5

Radiological Safety Analysis Computer Program Version 5

RTR

real-time radiography

RWMC

Radioactive Waste Management Complex

SAR

Safety Analysis Report

SCC

secondary combustion chamber

SCW

special case waste

SDA

Subsurface Disposal Area

SEIS-I or II

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Disposal Phase Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement-I or II

SHPO

State Historic Preservation Officer (Idaho)

SPD EIS

Surplus Plutonium Disposition Draft Environmental Impact Statement

SRS

Savannah River Site

ST

source term

STEL

short term exposure limit

STP

Site Treatment Plan

SWEPP

Stored Waste Examination Pilot Plant

TAN

Test Area North

TEDE

total effective dose equivalent

TLV

threshold limit value

TPA

TRUPACT payload assemblage

TRU

transuranic waste

TRUPACT

Transuranic Package Transporter

TRUPACT-II

Transuranic Package Transporter, Model 2

TSA

Transuranic Storage Area

TSA EA

Environmental Assessment: Retrieval and Re-Storage of Transuranic Storage Area Waste at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory

TSA-RE

Transuranic Storage Area Retrieval Enclosure

TSCA

Toxic Substances Control Act

TWA

time-weighted average

USGS

U.S. Geologic Survey

VOC

volatile organic compound

VRZ

volcanic rift zone

WAC

waste acceptance criteria

WC

waste category

WCF

Waste Characterization Facility

WERF

Waste Experimental Reduction Facility

WESP

wet electrostatic precipitator

WIPP

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

WIPP SEIS-I or II

See SEIS-I or II

WM

waste management

WM PEIS

Waste Management Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement

WMF

Waste Management Facility

WSF

Waste Storage Facility

WTS

waste tracking system

XRF

X-ray fluorescence