Acronyms

The Acronyms list includes all acronyms used in the BMP database and website and other commonly used acronyms related to oil and gas development.

Sample entries: *

ADT Average Daily Traffic
AEM adaptive environmental management
AQTSD Air Quality Technical Support Document
ANC acid neutralizing capacity
AO Authorized Officer
APD Application for Permit to Drill
AQD Air Quality Division
AQRV air quality related value
ARPA Archeological Resources Protection Act
AUM animal unit month
BART best available retrofit technology bbl barrel
BCC Bird Canyon Corridor
BBS Breeding Bird Survey
BIA Bureau of Indian Affairs
BLM Bureau of Land Management
BOR Bureau of Reclamation
BMP best management practices
BTNF Bridger-Teton National Forest
CA Communitization Agreement
CAPS Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey
CASTNET Clean Air Status and Trends Network
CDA concentrated development area
CDP central delivery point
CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act of 1980
CEQ Council on Environmental Quality
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CFS cubic feet per second
CGF central gathering facility
CIAA cumulative impact assessment area
CO carbon monoxide
COA Condition of Approval
COE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
C/OSPF central off site production facility
CPF centralized production facilities
CSD consolidated school district
CWA Clean Water Act
CX categorical exclusions
. . .

TDS total dissolved solids tpy tons per year
TSS total suspended solids
URF unit risk factor
USC United States Code
USDA United States Department of Agriculture
USFS United States Forest Service
USGS United States Geological Survey
VRM visual resource management
WAAQS Wyoming Ambient Air Quality Standards
WDEQ Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality
WGFD Wyoming Game and Fish Department
WOGCC Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
WSII Wyoming Stream Invertebrate Index
WYDOT Wyoming Department of Transportation

* For this demonstration, the list of acronyms is derived from the Draft Supplemental EIS, Pinedale Anticline Oil and Gas Exploration and Development Project, (BLM, 2006) and the Gold Book (BLM, 2006).