Acronym Glossary
- API
- American Petroleum Institute
- bbls
- barrels, petroleum (42 gallons)
- bcf
- billion cubic feet
- BLM
- Bureau of Land Management
- BMP
- Best Management Practices
- Btu
- British thermal units
- CAA
- Clean Air Act
- CBNG
- Coal Bed Natural Gas
- CEQ
- Council on Environmental Quality
- CFR
- Code of Federal Regulations
- CERCLA
- Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
- CH4
- Methane
- CO
- Carbon Monoxide
- CO2
- Carbon Dioxide
- CWA
- Clean Water Act
- DRBC
- Delaware River Basin Commission
- EIA
- Energy Information Administration
- ELG
- Effluent Limitation Guidelines
- EPA
- Environmental Protection Agency
- EPCRA
- Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act
- FR
- Federal Register
- ft
- foot/feet
- FWS
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- gal
- gallon
- GHG
- Greenhouse Gases
- GWPC
- Ground Water Protection Council
- H2S
- Hydrogen Sulfide
- HAP
- Hazardous Air Pollutant
- HCl
- Hydrochloric acid
- IOGCC
- Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission
- IR
- infra-red
- Mcf
- thousand cubic feet
- MMcf
- million cubic feet
- mrem
- millirem
- mrem/yr
- millirem per year
- MSDSs
- Material Safety Data Sheets
- NEPA
- National Environmental Policy Act
- NESHAPs
- National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
- NETL
- National Energy Technology Laboratory
- NORM
- Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material
- NOx
- Nitrogen Oxides
- NPDES
- National Pollution Discharge Elimination System
- NYDEC
- New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
- O3
- Ozone
- OPA
- Oil Pollution Act
- OSHA
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- PM
- Particulate Matter
- ppm
- parts per million
- RAPPS
- Reasonable and Prudent Practices for Stabilization
- RCRA
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
- RP
- Recommended Practice
- RQ
- Reportable Quantity
- SARA
- Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act
- SCF
- standard cubic feet
- SDWA
- Safe Drinking Water Act
- SO2
- Sulfur Dioxide
- SPCC
- Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasures
- SRBC
- Susquehanna River Basin Commission
- STRONGER
- State Review of Oil and Natural Gas Environmental Regulation, Inc.
- SWDA
- Solid Waste Disposal Act
- tcf
- trillion cubic feet
- TDS
- Total Dissolved Solids
- tpy
- tons per year
- TRI
- Toxics Release Inventory
- UIC
- Underground Injection Control
- U.S.
- United States
- U.S.C.
- United States Code
- USDW
- Underground Source of Drinking Water
- USGS
- United States Geological Survey
- VOC
- Volatile Organic Compound
- WQA
- Water Quality Act
- yr
- year