List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
This is a quick guide to commonly used abbreviations and acronyms used in conjunction with the NPDES Industrial Permit.
- 4Q3: Lowest four-day average flow rate expected to occur once every three-years
- BAT: Best available technology economically achievable
- BCT: Best conventional pollutant control technology
- BMP: Best Management Plan
- BPT: Best practicable control technology currently available
- BOD: Biochemical oxygen demand (five-day unless noted otherwise)
- BPJ: Best professional judgment
- CBOD: Carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand (five-day unless noted otherwise)
- CD: Critical dilution
- CFR: Code of Federal Regulations
- cfs: Cubic feet per second
- COD: Chemical oxygen demand
- COE: United States Corp of Engineers
- CWA: Clean Water Act
- DMR: Discharge monitoring report
- ELG: Effluent limitation guidelines
- EPA: United States Environmental Protection Agency
- EPRR: Electronic Public Reading Room
- ESA: Endangered Species Act
- FCB: Fecal coliform bacteria
- F&WS: United States Fish and Wildlife Service
- LANL: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- LANS: Los Alamos National Security
- mg/l: Milligrams per liter (one part per million)
- ug/l: Micrograms per litter (one part per billion)
- MGD: Million gallons per day
- MQL: Minimum quantification level
- NMAC: New Mexico Administrative Code
- NMED: New Mexico Environmental Department
- NMIP: New Mexico NPDES Permit Implementation Procedures
- NMWQS: New Mexico State Standards for Interstate and Intrastate Surface Waters
- NNSA: National Nuclear Security Administration
- NPDES: National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
- O&G: Oil and grease
- POTW: Publically owned treatment works
- RP: Reasonable potential
- SIC: Standard industrial classification
- s.u.: Standard units (for parameter pH)
- SWQB: Surface Water Quality Bureau
- TDS: Total dissolved solids
- TMDL: Total maximum daily load
- TRC: Total residual chlorine
- TSS: Total suspended solids
- UAA: Use attainability analysis
- USFWS: United States Fish & Wildlife Service
- USGS: United States Geological Service
- WLA: Waste load allocation
- WET: Whole effluent toxicity
- WQCC: New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission