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Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Select Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2011. Renewable Fuel Standard: Potential Economic and Environmental Effects of U.S. Biofuel Policy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13105.
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Select Acronyms and Abbreviations

BCAP Biomass Crop Assistance Program
BioBreak Biofuel breakeven model
BOD Biological oxygen demand
   
CBOB Conventional blendstock for oxygenate blending
CO Carbon monoxide
CO2 Carbon dioxide
CPI Consumer price index
CRP Conservation Reserve Program
CWD Coarse woody debris
   
DDGS Dried distillers grains with solubles
DOE U.S. Department of Energy
   
E10 A blend of up to 10-percent ethanol and the balance petroleum-based gasoline
E15 A blend of up to 15-percent ethanol and the balance petroleum-based gasoline
E85 A blend of up to 85-percent ethanol and the balance petroleum-based gasoline. For the past several years, E85 sold in the United States has averaged about 75-percent ethanol.
EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPAct Energy Policy Act
EIA Energy Information Administration
EISA Energy Independence and Security Act
ETBE Ethyl tertiary butyl ether
Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Select Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2011. Renewable Fuel Standard: Potential Economic and Environmental Effects of U.S. Biofuel Policy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13105.
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FAME Fatty acid methyl ester
FAPRI Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute
FASOM Forest and agricultural sector optimization model
FCC Fluidized catalytic cracking
FFV Flex-fuel vehicle
F-T Fischer-Tropsch
   
GE General equilibrium
GHG Greenhouse gas
GMS Groundwater monitoring system
GTAP Global Trade Analysis Project
   
HSPF Hydrological Simulation Program – Fortran
   
ILUC Indirect land-use change
   
LCFS Low-carbon fuel standard
LUC Land-use change
   
MTBE Methyl tertiary butyl ether
   
NASQAN National Stream-Quality Accounting Network
NAWQA National Water-Quality Assessment
NEQA National Environmental Quality Act
NEXRAD Next-generation radar
NH3 Ammonia
NIPF Nonindustrial private forest
NPV Net present value
NMHCs Nonmethane hydrocarbons
NO2 Nitrous oxide
NO3 Nitrate
NOx Nitrous oxides
NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
NWOS National Woodland Owner Survey
   
O3 Ozone
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OPEC Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
   
PAH Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
PE Partial equilibrium
PM Particulate matter
POLYSYS Policy analysis system model
   
QUAL2K River and stream water quality model
   
RBOB Reformulated blendstock for oxygenate blending
REIT Real estate investment trust
Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Select Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2011. Renewable Fuel Standard: Potential Economic and Environmental Effects of U.S. Biofuel Policy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13105.
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RFS Renewable Fuel Standard
RINs Renewable identification numbers
RUSLE Revised universal soil loss equation
RVP Reid vapor pressure
   
SNAP Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
SO2 Sulfur dioxide
SOC Soil organic carbon
SOM Soil organic matter
SPARROW Spatially referenced regressions on watershed attributes
SRWC Short-rotation woody crops
SWAT Soil and water assessment tool
   
TIMO Timber Investment Management Organization
TMDL Total maximum daily loads
   
USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
   
VEETC Volumetric ethanol excise tax credit
VOCs Volatile organic compounds
   
WASP Water quality analysis simulation program
WIC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children
WTA Willingness to accept
WTP Willingness to pay
Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Select Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2011. Renewable Fuel Standard: Potential Economic and Environmental Effects of U.S. Biofuel Policy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13105.
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