AEC

Atomic Energy Commission

ARS

Agricultural Research Service (USDA)

AAAS

American Association for the Advancement of Science

AHPS

Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service

ASLO

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography

ATSDR

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (DHHS)

AWWARF

American Water Works Association Research Foundation

BLM

U.S. Bureau of Land Management (DOI)

BMPs

best management practices

CALFED

California Bay Delta Authority

CDC

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (DHHS)

CENR

Committee on Environment and Natural Resources

CERCLA

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

Corps

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

COWRR

Committee on Water Resources Research

CSREES

Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (USDA)

CRADA

Cooperative Research and Development Agreement

CWA

Clean Water Act

DHHS

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

DoD

U.S. Department of Defense

DOE

U.S. Department of Energy

DOI

U.S. Department of Interior

EDRP

Exposure-Dose Reconstruction Program

EMAP

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program

ENSO

El Niño Southern Oscillation

EPA

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

ERS

Economic Research Service (USDA)

ESTCP

Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (DoD)

FCCSET

Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology

FCST

Federal Council for Science and Technology

FGDC

Federal Geographic Data Committee

FHA

Federal Housing Administration

FWS

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (DOI)

GAO

U.S. General Accounting Office

GDP

gross domestic product

GIS

Geographic Information Systems

GLERL

Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (NOAA)

GLHHERP

Great Lakes Human Health Effects Research Program

GRACE

Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment

HBN

Hydrologic Benchmark Network

HUD

U.S. Department of Health and Urban Development

HHS

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

LTER

Long-Term Ecological Research

MTHM

Metric tons heavy metal

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NAST

National Assessment Synthesis Team

NASQAN

National Stream Quality Accounting Network

NAWQA

National Assessment Water Quality program

NCEA

National Center for Environmental Assessment

NCER

National Center for Environmental Research

NCI

National Cancer Institute

NEHRP

National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program

NERL

National Exposure Research Laboratory

NEXRAD

Next Generation Weather Radar

NHEERL

National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory

NIEHS

National Institutes of Environmental Health Science

NIH

National Institutes of Health

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOS

National Ocean Service (NOAA)

NRC

National Research Council

NRMRL

National Risk Management Research Laboratory

NSB

National Science Board

NSF

National Science Foundation

NSDI

National Spatial Data Infrastructure

NSIP

National Streamflow Information Program

NSTC

National Science and Technology Council

NWS

National Weather Service (NOAA)

NWTRB

U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board

NWUIP

National Water-Use Information Program

OGP

Office of Global Programs (NOAA)

OMB

U.S. Office of Management and Budget

ONR

Office of Naval Research (DoD)

OOAR

Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (NOAA)

ORD

Office of Research and Development (EPA)

OSTP

Office of Science and Technology Policy

OWRR

Office of Water Resources Research (formerly DOI)

PCAST

President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

PHS

U.S. Public Health Service

RCRA

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

R&D

Research and development

SERDP

Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program

SDWA

Safe Drinking Water Act

STAR

Science Targeted to Achieve Results (EPA)

SWAQ

Subcommittee on Water Availability and Quality

TMDL

Total Maximum Daily Load

TNC

The Nature Conservancy

TSPA

Total System Performance Assessment

TVA

Tennessee Valley Authority

USBR

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (DOI)

USDA

U.S. Department of Agriculture

USFS

U.S. Forest Service (USDA)

USGS

U.S. Geological Survey (DOI)

USGCRP

U.S. Global Change Research Program

WERF

Water Environment Research Foundation

WRB

Water Research Board

WRRIs

Water Resources Research Institutes

WSTB

Water Science and Technology Board