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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2008. Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12051.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2008. Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12051.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2008. Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12051.
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Appendix B Acronyms ADEQ Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality ASIWPCA Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators BADT Best available demonstrated technology BAT Best available technology BMP Best management practice C2K Chesapeake 2000 CAFO Concentrated animal feeding operation CALM Consolidated Assessment and Listing Methodology CASTNET Clean Air Status and Trends Network CEAP Conservation Effects Assessment Project CFR Code of Federal Regulations CFU Colony-forming unit CREP Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program CRP Conservation Reserve Program CSO Combined sewer overflow CSP Conservation Security Program CWA Clean Water Act CWRA Clean Water Restoration Act CWSRF Clean Water State Revolving Fund DDT Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane DOI Department of the Interior 229

230 MISSISSIPPI RIVER WATER QUALITY AND THE CLEAN WATER ACT DRBC Delaware River Basin Commission EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone EMAP Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program EMP Environmental Management Program EMTC Environmental Management Technical Center EPA Environmental Protection Agency EQIP Environmental Quality Incentives Program FCA Fish Consumption Advisory FDEP Florida Department of Environmental Protection FERC Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FOE Friends of the Earth FSA Farm Service Agency FWPCA Federal Water Pollution Control Act GAO Government Accountability Office (formerly General Accounting Office) IADNR Iowa Department of Natural Resources ICPRB Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin ICWP Interstate Council on Water Policy ILDNR Illinois Department of Natural Resources ISA Iowa Soybean Association KDOW Kentucky Division of Water LA Load Allocation LDEQ Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality LMRCC Lower Mississippi River Conservation Commission LTRMP Long Term Resource Monitoring Program MDEQ Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality MDNR Missouri Department of Natural Resources MPCA Minnesota Pollution Control Agency MSA Magnuson-Stevens Act (of 1976) NACEPT National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology NADP National Atmospheric Deposition Program NAPA National Academy of Public Administration NASQAN National Stream Quality Accounting Network NAWQA National Water Quality Assessment

APPENDIX B 231 NCDENR North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System NRC National Research Council NRCS Natural Resources Conservation Service NRDC Natural Resources Defense Council NSPS New Source Performance Standards NTU Nephelometric turbidity unit ORSANCO Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission PCB Polychlorinated biphenyl PCS Permit compliance system POTW Publicly owned treatment work PUD Public Utility District RBP Rapid bioassessment protocol SDWA Safe Drinking Water Act SLA Submerged Lands Act SRBC Susquehanna River Basin Commission SSO Sanitary sewer overflow STORET Storage and Retrieval Environmental Data System SWCS Soil and Water Conservation Society TDEC Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation TMDL Total Maximum Daily Load TRI Toxics Release Inventory TSS Total suspended solids UMCES University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences UMRBA Upper Mississippi River Basin Association UMRCC Upper Mississippi River Conservation Committee UMR-IWW Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway UMRSHNC Upper Mississippi River Sub-basin Hypoxia Nutrient Committee UMRWSC Upper Mississippi River Water Suppliers Coalition UNEP United Nations Environment Programme USACE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture USFWS U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service USGS U.S. Geological Survey

232 MISSISSIPPI RIVER WATER QUALITY AND THE CLEAN WATER ACT WDNR Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources WLA Waste Load Allocation WQA Water Quality Act WRDA Water Resources Development Act WSA Wadable Streams Assessment WSTB Water Science and Technology Board

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The Mississippi River is, in many ways, the nation's best known and most important river system. Mississippi River water quality is of paramount importance for sustaining the many uses of the river including drinking water, recreational and commercial activities, and support for the river's ecosystems and the environmental goods and services they provide. The Clean Water Act, passed by Congress in 1972, is the cornerstone of surface water quality protection in the United States, employing regulatory and nonregulatory measures designed to reduce direct pollutant discharges into waterways. The Clean Water Act has reduced much pollution in the Mississippi River from "point sources" such as industries and water treatment plants, but problems stemming from urban runoff, agriculture, and other "non-point sources" have proven more difficult to address. This book concludes that too little coordination among the 10 states along the river has left the Mississippi River an "orphan" from a water quality monitoring and assessment perspective. Stronger leadership from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is needed to address these problems. Specifically, the EPA should establish a water quality data-sharing system for the length of the river, and work with the states to establish and achieve water quality standards. The Mississippi River corridor states also should be more proactive and cooperative in their water quality programs. For this effort, the EPA and the Mississippi River states should draw upon the lengthy experience of federal-interstate cooperation in managing water quality in the Chesapeake Bay.

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