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~BB~?[V'~TIO~S ID ACRONYMS AEDP ANWR APD ARGO ASTM BEOA BIOS BLM CDP COE COST DNAG DPP EA EIS Area Evaluation and Decision Process Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Application for Permit to Drill Atlantic Richfield Company American Society for Testing and Materials MMS's Branch of Environmental Operations and Analysis Baffin Island Oil Spill Project Bureau of Land Management Common Kept point U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Continental Offshore Stratigraphic Test Decade of Norm American Geology Development and Production Plan Environmental Assessment Environmental Impact Statement 239
240 OCS DECISIONS: ALASKA Exploration Plan EPA ESA ESP FWS GCM . U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Endangered Species Act Environmental Studies Program U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service General circulation mode! GES AMP International Maritime Organization Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Pollution GPS Global Positioning System MMPA Marine Mammal Protection Act MMS Minerals Management Service NEPA National Environmental Policy Act NMFS National Marine Fisheries Service NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NPDES National Pollution Discharge Elimination System National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska NPS NRC OCS National Park Service National Research Council Outer continental shelf OCSEAP Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act OCSLA OMB ONR OSRA Office of Management and Budget Office of Naval Research Oil spill risk analysis
ABBREVIATIONS AND A CRONYME5 241 PAAM Proposed Action and Alternatives Memorandum PRESTO Probalistic Resource Estimates-Offshore RTWG Regional Technical Working Group SAR Synthetic aperture radar SESP Socioeconom~cs Studies Program SID Secretarial issue document Sverdup (! Sv = lob mats) TAPS USCG USGS Trans-Alaska Pipeline System U.S. Coast Guard U.S. Geological Survey -
