Acronym Guide
棕地再开发领域常用的缩写词列表
AAI - All Appropriate Inquiry; purchaser’s investigation into past ownership and uses of the property\
AOC - Area of Concern
ARRA - 2009年美国复苏和再投资法案
AST - Aboveground Storage Tank
AUL - Activity and Use Limitation (also called institutional control); legal or administrative restriction on the use of or access to a site in order to reduce potential exposure to hazardous substances
BAC - Brownfield Advisory Committee
BF - Brownfields
CA - Corrective Action
CAG - Community Advisory Group
CDBG - Community Development Block Grant
CEA - Classification Exception Area
CERCLA -全面环境反应, Compensation, and Liability Act; enacted by Congress in 1980, 创造为超级基金提供资金的税收, 并概述了受污染土地的责任.
CMMP - Contaminated Media Management Plan
CNTS - Covenant Not to Sue
COC - Certificate of Completion
COC - Contaminant of Concern; chemical or substance that has the potential to adversely affect humans due to its concentration, distribution, and mode of toxicity
COG - Council of Governments
COI -感兴趣成分/感兴趣污染物
COPC - Contaminant of Potential Concern
CWA - Clean Water Act; 1972 act that regulates discharges of pollutants into US waters
EC - Engineering Control; physical modification of a site such as capping, slurry walls, or point of use water treatment, 减少接触有害物质的可能性
ECHO - Enforcement and Compliance History Online; EPA site that provides compliance monitoring, enforcement, 人口统计数据大约有800人,000 active regulated facilities
ECSI(S) - Environmental Cleanup Site Information (System); database of brownfield sites maintained by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
EPA - Environmental Protection Agency; federal agency whose mission is to protect human health and the environment
EPCRA -应急计划和社区知情权法, (SARA Title III); established requirements for hazardous chemical emergency planning and reporting, 增加公众获取个别设施化学品信息的渠道, their uses, and releases into the environment
ERNS - Emergency Response Notification System; EPA list of reported CERCLA hazardous substance releases
FS - Feasibility Study; summary of site and contamination, cleanup standards, applicable laws, and remedial options
HOT - Heating Oil Tank
HSDB - Hazardous Substances Data Bank; files on the National Library of Medicine's Toxicology Data Network (TOXNET) focusing on the toxicology of potentially hazardous chemicals, with information on human exposure, industrial hygiene, emergency handling procedures, environmental fate, regulatory requirements, etc
IC - Institutional Control; legal or administrative restriction on the use of or access to a site to reduce potential exposure to hazardous substances
ICP - Independent Cleanup Program; path through the Voluntary Cleanup Program for low to medium priority sites
ICs - Institutional Controls
IDEA - Integrated Data for Enforcement Analysis; environmental performance data on EPA-regulated facilities, with copies of the Agency's air, water, 危险废物和执法源数据系统
LDR - Land Disposal Restrictions; EPA program establishing hazardous waste protocol and treatment requirements to make waste safe for land disposal
LLP - Landowner Liability Protection; protections established under the Brownfields Amendments for certain brownfield owners
MASC -最大允许土壤浓度
MCL(G) - Maximum Contaminant Level (Goal)
MOU - Memorandum of Understanding
MSL- Mine Scared Lands
MW - Monitoring Well
NFA - No Further Action letter; issued by a state level environmental agency when the site has been remediated in accordance with applicable requirements and the Remedial Action Work Plan
NFRAP - No Further Remedial Action Planned; decision made by EPA, following a preliminary assessment, 该场地不构成重大风险,不需要根据CERCLA进行进一步活动
NOV - Notice of Violation; letter written as part of an administrative action
NPDES - National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System; permitting program under the Clean Water Act that regulates point source discharges to surface water
NPL - National Priorities List; a list of the most serious uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites under Superfund
OPA - Oil Pollution Act of 1990; addresses oil pollution liability and compensation for the Federal government to direct and manage oil spill cleanups
OPRA- 公开公共记录法案,允许查阅政府记录
OSRTI - Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation; EPA office that manages Superfund
OSWER -环境保护局固体废物和应急反应办公室
OUST -环保署地下储罐办公室
PA - Preliminary Assessment; process of collecting and reviewing available information about a known or suspected waste site or release (similar to a Phase 1)
PAH - Polynuclear / Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon; compounds found in fuels, oils, and creosote, including benzene, toluene, and the xylenes
PCB - Polychlorinated Biphenyl; toxic, 用于绝缘变压器和电容器的持久性化学品, and in gas pipeline systems as a lubricant; sale and new use of PCBs were banned by law in 1979
PERC or PCE - Tetrachloroethylene (also called perchloroethylene); manufactured chemical widely used for dry cleaning, metal-degreasing, and chemical production
POL - Petroleum Oils and Lubricants; contain contaminants such as benzene, toluene and xylene
PPA - Prospective Purchaser Agreement; prospective purchaser of contaminated property will agree, before acquiring the property, 捐款:为清理而贡献一定量的钱或努力. In return, 适当的环境监管机构将同意限制买方未来的责任, 即使在购买房产后发现了新的历史污染区域
PRG - Preliminary Remediation Goal
PRP - Potentially Responsible Party
QAPP - Quality Assurance Project Plan; written between Phase I and Phase II ESAs to state project objectives and monitoring design, procedures for generating data, and data quality measurements
RA - Remedial Action; construction, operation, 并实施最终的清理补救措施,直到确认取样和分析表明已达到清理水平
RACM/T -合理可行的控制措施/技术
RAO - Remedial Action Operation; operation, maintenance, 并监测对补救行动的支持要求
RAR- Remedial Action Report; documents completion of a remdial action in accordance with the RAWP
RASR- Remedial Action Selection Report; document that evaluates possible clean up options and selects a preferred remedy
RAWP (or RAW)- 补救行动工作计划,描述清理方法的文件
RBCA - Risk Based Corrective Action; the process that results from using risk based decision making (often for USTs)
RBDM - Risk Based Decision Making; a process during which decisions are made about sites contaminated by underground storage tank releases according to the actual risk each site poses to human health and the environment
RCRA - Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; federal statute that regulates the generation, transportation, storage, treatment and disposal of hazardous waste; includes the Corrective Action and Underground Storage Tank Programs
RCRA BF -属于RCRA法规的棕地场地
RD- Remedial Design; detailed plans and specifications suitable to construct a remedial action
REC -公认的环境状况
RI/FS - Remedial Investigation and Feasibility Study; an in-depth study to (1) determine the nature and extent of contamination at a Superfund site, (2) establish site cleanup criteria, (3)确定补救行动的初步备选方案, (4)支持替代品的技术和成本分析
RIP - Remedy In Place; indication that a final remedial action has been constructed and implemented, 并按补救设计运作
RLF -环保署的循环贷款基金拨款
RME - Reasonable Maximum Exposure; maximum exposure expected to occur at a site
ROD - Record of Decision; primary legal document at a site, 其中阐述了环保局选择的补救措施以及导致其选择的因素
RP - Responsible Party
RPM - Remedial Project Manager; EPA or State official responsible for overseeing on-site remedial action
SARA - Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act; 1986 act amending CERCLA to increase the size of the Superfund trust fund
SBA - Small Business Administration
SBLRBRA -小企业责任救济和棕地振兴法案
SI -地盘勘测(第2期研究)
SRI Grant - Superfund Redevelopment Initiative; EPA grant to local gov’t of up to $100,000元作再利用评估及公众外展之用
TAG - Technical Assistance Grant; EPA grant program that provides funds for citizens’ groups at a Superfund site to hire independent technical advisors to help them understand and comment on technical decisions
TBA - Targeted Brownfield Assessment; EPA program to help states, tribes, 市政当局——尤其是那些没有EPA棕地评估试点/拨款的地方——促进棕地的清理和再开发
TCLP - Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure; to determine the potential for toxic chemicals to move through soils and groundwater
TMDL - Total Maximum Daily Loads; the amount of a particular pollutant that a particular waterbody can handle without violating state water quality standards
TOC - Total Organic Carbon; the amount of carbon bound in an organic compound and often used as an indicator of water quality
TRI - Toxic Release Inventory; a publicly available EPA database that contains information on toxic chemical releases and other waste management activities reported annually by certain covered industry groups and federal facilities
TSDF - Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities; for hazardous waste
TSE - RCRA棕地预防倡议的目标站点努力
UAO - Unilateral Administrative Order; legal document issued by EPA directing a PRP to perform site cleanup. 规定了当事人对清理的责任, describes actions to be taken, 并对不遵守规定的收件人处以罚款和损害赔偿
UST - Underground Storage Tank
VCP - Voluntary Cleanup Program; provides oversight to property owners to investigate and clean up hazardous substance sites in a voluntary, cooperative manner