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Suggested Citation:"Appendix G: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2004. Confronting the Nation's Water Problems: The Role of Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11031.
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Appendix G
Acronyms


AEC

Atomic Energy Commission

ARS

Agricultural Research Service (USDA)

AAAS

American Association for the Advancement of Science

AHPS

Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service

ASLO

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography

ATSDR

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (DHHS)

AWWARF

American Water Works Association Research Foundation


BLM

U.S. Bureau of Land Management (DOI)

BMPs

best management practices


CALFED

California Bay Delta Authority

CDC

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (DHHS)

CENR

Committee on Environment and Natural Resources

CERCLA

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

Corps

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

COWRR

Committee on Water Resources Research

CSREES

Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (USDA)

CRADA

Cooperative Research and Development Agreement

CWA

Clean Water Act


DHHS

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

DoD

U.S. Department of Defense

Suggested Citation:"Appendix G: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2004. Confronting the Nation's Water Problems: The Role of Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11031.
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DOE

U.S. Department of Energy

DOI

U.S. Department of Interior


EDRP

Exposure-Dose Reconstruction Program

EMAP

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program

ENSO

El Niño Southern Oscillation

EPA

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

ERS

Economic Research Service (USDA)

ESTCP

Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (DoD)


FCCSET

Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology

FCST

Federal Council for Science and Technology

FGDC

Federal Geographic Data Committee

FHA

Federal Housing Administration

FWS

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (DOI)


GAO

U.S. General Accounting Office

GDP

gross domestic product

GIS

Geographic Information Systems

GLERL

Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (NOAA)

GLHHERP

Great Lakes Human Health Effects Research Program

GRACE

Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment


HBN

Hydrologic Benchmark Network

HUD

U.S. Department of Health and Urban Development

HHS

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services


LTER

Long-Term Ecological Research


MTHM

Metric tons heavy metal


NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NAST

National Assessment Synthesis Team

NASQAN

National Stream Quality Accounting Network

NAWQA

National Assessment Water Quality program

NCEA

National Center for Environmental Assessment

NCER

National Center for Environmental Research

NCI

National Cancer Institute

NEHRP

National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program

NERL

National Exposure Research Laboratory

NEXRAD

Next Generation Weather Radar

NHEERL

National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory

Suggested Citation:"Appendix G: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2004. Confronting the Nation's Water Problems: The Role of Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11031.
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NIEHS

National Institutes of Environmental Health Science

NIH

National Institutes of Health

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOS

National Ocean Service (NOAA)

NRC

National Research Council

NRMRL

National Risk Management Research Laboratory

NSB

National Science Board

NSF

National Science Foundation

NSDI

National Spatial Data Infrastructure

NSIP

National Streamflow Information Program

NSTC

National Science and Technology Council

NWS

National Weather Service (NOAA)

NWTRB

U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board

NWUIP

National Water-Use Information Program


OGP

Office of Global Programs (NOAA)

OMB

U.S. Office of Management and Budget

ONR

Office of Naval Research (DoD)

OOAR

Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (NOAA)

ORD

Office of Research and Development (EPA)

OSTP

Office of Science and Technology Policy

OWRR

Office of Water Resources Research (formerly DOI)


PCAST

President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

PHS

U.S. Public Health Service


RCRA

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

R&D

Research and development


SERDP

Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program

SDWA

Safe Drinking Water Act

STAR

Science Targeted to Achieve Results (EPA)

SWAQ

Subcommittee on Water Availability and Quality


TMDL

Total Maximum Daily Load

TNC

The Nature Conservancy

TSPA

Total System Performance Assessment

TVA

Tennessee Valley Authority


USBR

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (DOI)

USDA

U.S. Department of Agriculture

USFS

U.S. Forest Service (USDA)

USGS

U.S. Geological Survey (DOI)

Suggested Citation:"Appendix G: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2004. Confronting the Nation's Water Problems: The Role of Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11031.
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USGCRP

U.S. Global Change Research Program


WERF

Water Environment Research Foundation

WRB

Water Research Board

WRRIs

Water Resources Research Institutes

WSTB

Water Science and Technology Board

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In order to confront the increasingly severe water problems faced by all parts of the country, the United States needs to make a new commitment to research on water resources. A new mechanism is needed to coordinate water research currently fragmented among nearly 20 federal agencies. Given the competition for water among farmers, communities, aquatic ecosystems and other users—as well as emerging challenges such as climate change and the threat of waterborne diseases—Confronting the Nation's Water Problems concludes that an additional $70 million in federal funding should go annually to water research. Funding should go specifically to the areas of water demand and use, water supply augmentation, and other institutional research topics. The book notes that overall federal funding for water research has been stagnant in real terms for the past 30 years and that the portion dedicated to research on water use and social science topics has declined considerably.

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