3Rs = Recognize, Retreat, Report
ASA(IE&E) = Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment
ASW(EIE) = Assistant Secretary of War for Energy, Infrastructure, and Environment
ASW(ND-CBD) = Assistant Secretary of War for Nuclear Deterrence, Chemical, and Biological Defense, Policy and Programs
BRAC = Base Realignment and Closure
CA = Chemical Agent
CAIS = Chemical Agent Identification Set
CAMDS = Chemical Agent Munitions Disposal System
CARA = CBRNE Analytical and Remediation Activity
CBARR = Chemical Biological Application and Risk Reduction
CBC = Chemical Biological Center
CBRNE = Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives
CDP = U.S. Chemical Demilitarization Program
CEHNC = USACE’s Huntsville Engineering and Support Center
CFR = Code of Federal Regulations
CMA = Chemical Materials Activity (formerly Chemical Materials Agency)
CWM = Chemical Warfare Materiel
CWMDC = Chemical Warfare Materiel Design Center
CWS = Army Chemical Warfare Service
DASA(ESOH) = Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health
DASW(CBRND)) = Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for CBRN Defense
DASW(EMR) = Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Environmental Management and Remediation
DD = Decision Document
DWESO = Department of War Explosives Safety Office (previously the Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board)
DENIX = Defense Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health Network and Information Exchange
DERP = Defense Environmental Restoration Program
DoDD = Department of Defense Directive
DoDI = Department of Defense Instruction
DoDM = Department of Defense Manual
DoS = Department of State
DOT = Department of Transportation
DoW = Department of War
DRCT = Digital Radiography and Computed Tomography
EA = Executive Agent
ECBC = Edgewood Chemical Biological Center
EDS = Explosive Destruction System
EOD = Explosive Ordnance Disposal
EPA = Environmental Protection Agency
ERP = Environmental Restoration Program
FS = Feasibility Study
FUDS = Formerly Used Defense Site
FY = Fiscal Year
IHF = Interim Holding Facility
IO = Integrating Office
JACADS = Johnson Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System
MARB = Materiel Assessment Review Board
MRA = Munitions Response Area
MRC = Multiple Round Container
MRS = Munitions Response Site
MRSPP = Munitions Response Site Prioritization Protocol
NCP = National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan
NEW = Net Explosive Weight
NSCMP = Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Project
O&M = Operations and Maintenance
OSW = Office of the Secretary of War
PPBE = Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution
RA = Remedial Action
RAB = Restoration Advisory Board
RC = Response Complete
RCMD = Recovered Chemical Materiel Directorate
RCRA = Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
RCWM = Recovered chemical warfare materiel
RD = Remedial Design
RDECOM = U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command
RDT&E = Research, Development, Test and Evaluation
RI = Remedial Investigation
ROD = Record of Decision
SCANS = Single CAIS Access and Neutralization System
TDC = Transportable Detonation Center
TEU = technical escort unit
TSDF = Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facility
U.S. = United States
U.S.C. = United States Code
USACE = U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
SCUSW (AT&L) = Under Secretary of War (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics)
USW(P) = Under Secretary of War for Policy
USW(P&R) = Office of the Under Secretary of War for Personnel & Readiness
UXO = Unexploded ordnance
VX = O-Ethyl S-2-diisopropylaminoethyl methyl phosphonothiolate