ACRONYMS
AEA – Atomic Energy Act
AEC – Atomic Energy Commission
AFCI – Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative
ARARs – applicable or relevant and appropriate requirements
ATSDR – Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
BEMR – Baseline Environmental Management Report
BIA – Bureau of Indian Affairs
BWR – Boiling Water Reactor
BWXT – BWX Technologies
CADs – correction action decisions
CDPHE – Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
CERCLA – Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, as
amended, 42 U.S.C. § 9601, et seq.
CH – Contact-handled
CHWA – Colorado Hazardous Waste Act
CRO – community reuse organization
CROET – Community Reuse Organization for East Tennessee
D&D – Deactivation and Decommissioning
DNFSB – Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
DOD – U.S. Department of Defense
DOE – U.S. Department of Energy
DOI – U.S. Department of the Interior
DOT – U.S. Department of Transportation
ECA – Energy Communities Alliance
EEOICPA – Energy Employee Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act
EIS - Environmental Impact Statement
ELI – Environmental Law Institute
EM – DOE Office of Environmental Management
EPA – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPACT - Energy Policy Act of 2005
ERDA – Energy Research and Development Administration
ESD – explanation of significant differences
ETTP – East Tennessee Technology Park
EUWG – Oak Ridge End Use Working Group
EWMF – Environmental Waste Management Facility
FACA – Federal Advisory Committee Act
FSUWG – Rocky Flats Future Site Use Working Group
FUSRAP – Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program
GAO – Government Accountability Office
GTCC – Greater Than Class C Waste
HLW – High-Level Waste
IAEA – International Atomic Energy Agency
ICMA – International City/County Management Association
ISFSI – Independent spent fuel storage installation
IWTU – Integrated Waste Treatment Unit
LAW – Low Activity Waste
LLW – Low-Level Waste
LM – DOE Office of Legacy Management
LOC – Oak Ridge Local Oversight Committee
LSO – local stakeholder organization
LTS – long-term stewardship
LWA – Land Withdrawal Act
LWR – Light Water Reactor
M&O – Management and Operating
MDO – Waste management and disposal organization
MESH – Miamisburg Environmental Safety and Health
MLLW – Mixed Low-Level Waste
MMCIC – Miamisburg Mound Community Improvement Corp.
MOX – Mixed Oxide Fuel
MRC – Miamisburg Reuse Committee
MRS – Monitored Retrievable Storage
NDAA – National Defense Authorization Act
NEPA – National Environmental Policy Act
NFS – Nuclear Fuel Services
NGO – Non-Governmental Organization
NNSA – National Nuclear Security Administration
NRC – U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NPT – Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
NWF – Nuclear Waste Fund
NWPA – Nuclear Waste Policy Act
NWTRB – National Waste Technical Review Board
O&M – operation and maintenance
OHEPA – Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
ONSIR – Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response
ORNL – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ORR – Oak Ridge Reservation
OU – operable unit
PCBs – polychlorinated biphenyls
PILT –payments in lieu of taxes
PMR(s) – Permit Modification Request(s)
PRS 66 – Potential Release Site 66
PUREX – Plutonium-Uranium Extraction
PWR – Pressurized Water Reactor
R&D – research and development
RCRA – Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. 6901, et seq.
RFCA – Rocky Flats Cleanup Agreement
RFCAB – Rocky Flats Citizens Advisory Board
RFCLOG – Rocky Flats Coalition of Local Governments
RFLII – Rocky Flats Local Impacts Initiative
RH – Remote-Handled
RI/FS – remedial investigation/feasibility study
ROD – record of decision
SARA – Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act
SBW – Sodium-Bearing Waste
SFR – Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor
SMR – Small Modular Reactor
SNF – Spent Nuclear Fuel
SSAB – Site-Specific Advisory Board
SWG – Rocky Flats Stewardship Working Group
TBI – Test Bed Initiative
TDEC – Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation
TRU – Transuranic Waste
TSCA – Toxic Substance Control Act
UREX+ - Uranium Reduction and Extraction
WIPP – Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
WIR – Waste Incidental to Reprocessing