Acronyms
ANL Argonne National Laboratory
ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers
AWWA American Water Works Association
AwwaRF American Water Works Association Research Foundation
CAT Consequence Assessment Tool
CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
CI3 Critical Infrastructures Interdependencies Integrator
CPHP Centers for Public Health Preparedness
DHS Department of Homeland Security
DOD Department of Defense
DOT-Net distributed optimal technology network
EEM excitation emission matrix
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
ERDC Engineering Research and Development Center
ESSENCE Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics
ETV Environmental Technology Verification
EWS early warning system
GC gas chromatography
GIS geographic information system
HPLC high-performance liquid chromatography
HSIN Homeland Security Information Network
HSPD Homeland Security Presidential Directive
IPA Intergovernmental Personnel Act
IRIS Integrated Risk Information System
ISFET ion-sensitive field-effect transistor
LD lethal dose
MS-EPANET multi species EPANET
NACWA National Association of Clean Water Agencies
NEMI-CBR National Environmental Methods Index for Chemical, Biological, and Radioactive Agents
NHSRC National Homeland Security Research Center
NIH National Institutes of Health
NRC National Research Council
ORD Office of Research and Development
PCR polymerase chain reaction
PDD Presidential Decision Directive
POE point of entry
POU point of use
QA quality assurance
QC quality control
QCM quartz crystal microbalance
QSAR Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship
RAM-W Risk Assessment Methodology for Water Utilities
RODS Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance
RSS Rich Site Summary
RTMS real-time monitoring system
SAB Science Advisory Board
SCADA supervisory control and data acquisition
SITE Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation
START Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terror
TEVA Threat Ensemble Vulnerability Assessment
TTEP Technology Testing and Evaluation Program
USACE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
UV ultraviolet
VSAT Vulnerability Self Assessment Tool
WaterISAC Water Information Sharing and Analysis Center
WaterSC Water Security Channel
WCIT Water Contaminant Information Tool
WEF Water Environment Federation
WERF Water Environment Research Foundation
WLA Water Laboratory Alliance
WSCC Water Sector Coordinating Council
WSTB Water Science and Technology Board