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Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Research Council. 2012. Review of the EPA's Economic Analysis of Final Water Quality Standards for Nutrients for Lakes and Flowing Waters in Florida. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13376.
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Acronyms

BMAP Basin Management Action Plan
BMP best management practice
BNR biological nutrient removal
   
CAFO concentrated animal feeding operation
CWA Clean Water Act
   
DO dissolved oxygen
DPV downstream protection value
   
EOP end-of-pipe
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
   
FDACS Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
FDEP Florida Department of Environmental Protection
FDOH Florida Department of Health
FWEAUC Florida Water Environment Association Utility Council
FWRA Florida Watershed Restoration Act
   
GIS geographic information system
   
HUC hydrologic unit code
   
IWR Impaired Waters Rule
   
LA load allocation
Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Research Council. 2012. Review of the EPA's Economic Analysis of Final Water Quality Standards for Nutrients for Lakes and Flowing Waters in Florida. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13376.
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MF microfiltration
MGD million gallons per day
MLE Modified Ludzack-Ettinger
MOS margin of safety
MOU memorandum of understanding
   
NGO nongovernmental organization
NNC numeric nutrient criteria
NOI notice of intent
NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
NRC National Research Council
NRCS Natural Resources Conservation Service
   
OIG Office of Inspector General
O&M operation and maintenance
OSTDS onsite sewage treatment and disposal system
   
PRB permeable reactive barrier
   
RO reverse osmosis
   
SCM stormwater control measure
SIC Standard Industrial Classification
SSAC site-specific alternative criteria
SW surface water
SWIM Surface Water Improvement and Management Act
   
TMDL Total Maximum Daily Load
TN total nitrogen
TP total phosphorus
TRAP Technical Review Advisory Panel
   
UCT University of Cape Town
USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture
   
WBID Waterbody Identification Number1
WLA waste load allocation
WQBEL water quality-based effluent limit
WQS water quality standards
WWTP wastewater treatment plants

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1 WBID is used colloquially to refer to certain impaired waters, but technically the term also includes the surrounding drainage basin.

Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Research Council. 2012. Review of the EPA's Economic Analysis of Final Water Quality Standards for Nutrients for Lakes and Flowing Waters in Florida. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13376.
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Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Research Council. 2012. Review of the EPA's Economic Analysis of Final Water Quality Standards for Nutrients for Lakes and Flowing Waters in Florida. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13376.
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The Environmental Protection Agency's estimate of the costs associated with implementing numeric nutrient criteria in Florida's waterways was significantly lower than many stakeholders expected. This discrepancy was due, in part, to the fact that the Environmental Protection Agency's analysis considered only the incremental cost of reducing nutrients in waters it considered "newly impaired" as a result of the new criteria-not the total cost of improving water quality in Florida. The incremental approach is appropriate for this type of assessment, but the Environmental Protection Agency's cost analysis would have been more accurate if it better described the differences between the new numeric criteria rule and the narrative rule it would replace, and how the differences affect the costs of implementing nutrient reductions over time, instead of at a fixed time point. Such an analysis would have more accurately described which pollutant sources, for example municipal wastewater treatment plants or agricultural operations, would bear the costs over time under the different rules and would have better illuminated the uncertainties in making such cost estimates.

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