Acronyms 

 

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BMP

Best management practice

BPJ

Best professional judgment

CO2

Carbon dioxide

CWA

Clean Water Act

CZARA

Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments

DEC

Department of Environmental Conservation

DEM

Department of Environmental Management

DEP

Department of Environmental Protection

EPA

Environmental Protection Agency

LA

Load Allocation (for nonpoint sources)

LIS Long Island Sound
LISS Long Island Sound Study

MAHL

Maximum Allowable Headworks Loading

MAIL

Maximum Allowable Industrial Loading

MS4

Municipal separate storm sewer systems

NCTP

Nitrogen Credit Trading Program (state of CT)

NOX

Nitrogen oxides

NPDES

National Pollution Discharge Elimination System

ONRW

Outstanding Natural Resource Waters

POTWs

Publicly owned treatment works

PCS Permit Compliance System

RIPDES

Rhode Island Pollution Discharge Elimination System

SIP

State Implementation Plan

SO2

Sulfur dioxide

SRPW

Special Resource Protection Waters

TMDL

Total Maximum Daily Load

TP Tar-Pamlico Trading Program (North Carolina)

VOCs

Volatile organic compounds

WLA

Waste Load Allocation (for point sources)

WQBELs

Water quality-based effluent limits

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