Summarized below are acronyms commonly used in Board folders and accompanying staff reports. | ||
A/C | Authority to Construct Permit | |
AB | Assembly Bill | |
AMOS | Automatic Meteorological Observation Stations | |
AP-42 | EPA technical reference specifying specific Air Pollutant Emission Factors | |
APCD | Air Pollution Control District | |
APCO | Air Pollution Control Officer | |
AQMD | Air Quality Management District | |
ATCM | Airborne Toxic Control Measure | |
BACT | Best Available Control Technology | |
BAM | Beta Attenuation Monitor (records hourly ambient particulate data) | |
BCAG | Butte County Association of Governments | |
BCAQMD | Butte County Air Quality Management District | |
BCC | Sacramento Valley Basinwide Air Pollution Control Council | |
BOS | Board of Supervisors | |
CAA | Clean Air Act | |
CAAQS | California Ambient Air Quality Standards | |
Cal-EPA | California Environmental Protection Agency | |
CAPCOA | California Air Pollution Control Officers Association | |
CARB | California Air Resources Board | |
CCO | Central Computer Operator (applies to Agricultural Burning Program) | |
Cd | Chemical symbol for cadmium | |
CDF | California Department of Forestry | |
CEQA | California Environmental Quality Act | |
CI | Compression Ignition | |
CO | Chemical symbol for carbon monoxide | |
CO2 | Chemical symbol for carbon dioxide | |
CPA | Certified Public Accountant | |
CPI | Consumer Price Index | |
CSAC | California State Association of Counties | |
CUA | Chico Urbanized Area | |
DMV | Department of Motor Vehicles | |
DTSC | California Department of Toxic Substance Control | |
EG | Emission Guidelines | |
EI | Emission Inventory | |
Emfac | Emission Factor Computer Model | |
EPA | Environmental Protection Agency (Federal) | |
ERC | Emission Reduction Credit | |
EVR | Enhanced Vapor Recovery | |
FRM | Federal Reference Method | |
FY | Fiscal Year (June 30-July 1, unless otherwise stated) | |
GASB | Governmental Accounting Standards Board | |
GDF | Gasoline Dispensing Facilities | |
GFOA | Governmental Finance Officers Association | |
GHG | Greenhouse Gases | |
GWP | Global Warming Potential | |
HAP | Hazardous Air Pollutants | |
HCl | Hydrochloric Acid | |
Hg | Chemical symbol for mercury | |
HRA | Health Risk Assessments | |
HSC | Health & Safety Code | |
HWSA | High Wood Smoke Area | |
ICE | Internal Combustion Engine | |
ISR | Indirect Source Review | |
LE5 | Law Enforcement, Permit No. 5 (for open burning) | |
LESB | Lower Emission School Bus program | |
Mb | Millibar | |
Mg/Yr | Milligrams per year | |
Micron | Abbreviation of Micrometer or 1,000,000th of a meter in size | |
MPO | Metropolitan Planning Organization | |
Msl | Mean sea level | |
MMT CO2 | Million Metric Tons of Carbon Dioxide equivalent emissions | |
MSW | Municipal Solid Waste | |
NAAQS | National Ambient Air Quality Standard | |
NACAA | National Association Clean Air Agencies | |
NESHAPS | National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants | |
NMOC | Non-Methane Organic Compound | |
NON | Notice of Noncompliance | |
NOx | Oxides of Nitrogen | |
NSPS | New Source Performance Standards | |
NSR | New Source Review | |
NTA | Notice to Apply | |
NTC | Notice to Comply | |
OEHHA | California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment | |
OAL | Office of Administrative Law | |
ORVR | Onboard Refueling Vapor Recovery | |
Pb | Chemical symbol for lead | |
PERP | Portable Equipment Registration Program | |
PM | Particulate Matter | |
PM 10-2.5 | Particulate Matter 10 Microns in Size and smaller, but greater than 2.5 Microns | |
PM10 | Particulate Matter 10 Microns in Size and smaller | |
PM2.5 | Particulate Matter 2.5 Microns in Size and smaller | |
PSD | Prevention of Significant Deterioration | |
RACT | Reasonably Available Control Technology | |
RCRC | Regional Council of Rural Counties | |
RRF | Relative Reduction Factor | |
RSD | Remote Sensing Device | |
SB | Senate Bill | |
SDRMA | Special District Risk Management Authority | |
SF | Square Foot | |
SIC | Standardized Industrial Classification | |
SIP | State Implementation Plan | |
SO2 | Chemical symbol for sulfur dioxide | |
SSI | Size Selective Inlet (applies to particulate samplers) | |
TAC | Technical Advisory Committee of the BCC | |
TARMAC | CAPCOA Toxics and Risk Managers Committee | |
TEIP | Toxic Emission Inventory Plan | |
TEIR | Toxic Emission Inventory Report | |
TEOM | Taper Element Oscillating Microbalance (records hourly ambient particulate data) | |
Title 17 | California Code of Regulations, Administrative Law adopted by the California Air Resources Board, and referencing in this Board folder the Agricultural burn guidelines | |
ug/m3 | Micrograms per cubic meter | |
URBEMIS | Urban Emissions computer program | |
USDA | United States Department of Agriculture | |
USEPA | United States Environmental Protection Agency | |
UV | Ultra Violet | |
VEE | Visible Emission Evaluation Certification | |
VOC | Volatile Organic Compound | |
WUI | Wildland Urban Interface | |
YTD | Year to Date |