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Glossary

        A/E - Architect/Engineering
        ACO - Administrative Consent Order
        ARAR - Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate Requirement
        CARP - Contaminant Assessment and Reduction Project
        CERCLA - Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
        CLH - Chemical Land Holdings
        CLP - Contract Laboratory Program
        COC - Contaminant of Concern
        CSO - Combined Sewer Overflow
        DDT - Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
        DPM - Deputy Project Manager
        EDD - Electronic Data Deliverable
        EDMS - Electronic Document Management System
        ERD - Entity Relationship Diagram
        ESRI - Environmental Systems Research Institute
        FS - Feasibility Study
        GIS - Geographical Information System
        HEP - Harbor Estuary Program
        ISRA - Industrial Site Recovery Act
        LIS - Long Island Sound
        MLLW - Mean Lower Low Water
        NJ - New Jersey
        NJAC - New Jersey Administrative Code
        NJDEP - New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
        NJDOT - New Jersey Department of Transportation
        NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
        NPDES - National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
        NPL - National Priorities List
        NRC - National Research Council
        NRCS - National Resource Conservation Service
        NY - New York
        OCC - Occidental Chemical Company
        OMR - Office of Maritime Resources
        OU - Operable Unit
        PAH - Polyaromatic Hydrocarbon
        PCB - Polychlorinated biphenyl
        PCDD - Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins
        PEAP - Pre-Expansion Activity Plan
        PM - Project Manager
        PMP - Project Management Plan
        POTW - Publicly Owned Treatment Work
        ppm - Parts Per Million
        ppt - Parts Per Trillion
        PRP - Potentially Responsible Party
        PRSA - Passaic River Study Area
        PVSC - Passaic Valley Sewage Commissioners
        QA/QC - Quality Assurance/Quality Control
        QCP - Quality Control Plan
        RCRA - Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
        RI - Remedial Investigation
        RI/FS - Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study
        ROD - Record of Decision
        SOW - Scope of Work
        SQL - Structured Query Language
        SWEM - System-Wide Eutrophication Model
        TEPH - Total Extractable Petroleum Hydrocarbon
        TMDL - Total Maximum Daily Load
        USACE - United States Army Corps of Engineers
        USEPA - United States Environmental Protection Agency
        USGS - United States Geologic Survey
        UST - Underground Storage Tank
        WRDA - Water Resources Development Act