| Acronym | Meaning |
|---|---|
3Rs | Recognize, Retreat, Report |
ABCDF | Aberdeen Chemical-Agent Disposal Facility |
ACWA | Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives |
AMC | U.S. Army Materiel Command |
ANAD | Anniston Army Depot |
ANCDF | Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility |
APG | Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland |
ASA(IE&E) | Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment |
ASD (EI&E) | Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment |
ASD(NCB) | Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, & Biological Defense Programs |
ATAP | Alternative Technologies and Approaches Project |
ATSDR | Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry |
BGAD | Blue Grass Army Depot |
BRAC | Base Realignment and Closure |
CA | Chemical Agent |
CAA | Clean Air Act |
CAIS | Chemical Agent Identification Set |
CAMD,D | Chemical Agent and Munitions Destruction, Defense |
CAMDS | Chemical Agent Munitions Disposal System |
CARA | CBRNE Analytical and Remediation Activity |
CAT | computerized tomography scan |
CATOX | Catalytic oxidation |
CBARR | Chemical Biological Application and Risk Reduction |
CBDCOM | Chemical and Biological Defense Command |
CBRNE | Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives |
CDP | U.S. Chemical Demilitarization Program |
CDRA | Chemical Demilitarization and Remediation Activity |
CEHNC | USACE’s Huntsville Engineering and Support Center |
CFR | Code of Federal Regulations |
CG | phosgene |
CK | cyanogen chloride |
CMA | Chemical Materials Activity (formerly Chemical Materials Agency) |
CMDA | Chemical Materiel Destruction Agency |
CN | chloroacetophenone |
COCOM | Combatant Commands |
CSEPP | Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program |
CWA | Clean Water Act |
CWC | Chemical Weapons Convention |
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 |
DASD(EI&E) | Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations and Environment |
DCD | Deseret Chemical Depot, Utah |
DD | Decision Document |
DDESB | Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board |
DENIX | Defense Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health Network and Information Exchange |
DERP | Defense Environmental Restoration Program |
DF | methylphosphonic difluoride |
DM | diphenylaminechlorarsine |
DMM | Discarded military munitions |
DoD | Department of Defense |
DoDD | Department of Defense Directive |
DoDI | Department of Defense Instruction |
DoDM | Department of Defense Manual |
DoS | Department of State |
DOT | Department of Transportation |
DRCT | Digital Radiography and Computed Tomography |
EA | Executive Agent |
ECBC | Edgewood Chemical Biological Center |
EDS | Explosive Destruction System |
EO | Executive Order |
EOD | Explosive Ordnance Disposal |
EP | Engineering Pamphlet |
EPA | Environmental Protection Agency |
ER | Engineering Regulation |
ERP | Environmental Restoration Program |
FM | titanium tetrachloride |
FORSCOM | U.S. Army Forces Command |
FS | Feasibility Study |
FUDS | Formerly Used Defense Site |
FY | Fiscal Year |
GA | Tabun |
GB | Sarin |
H | mustard agent |
HC | hexachloroethane |
HD | distilled mustard |
HN-1 | nitrogen-mustard |
HS | leviathan mustard |
HT | ethyl ether |
IBPF | Integrated Binary Production Facility |
IHF | Interim Holding Facility |
IO | Integrating Office |
JACADS | Johnson Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System |
JPME | Joint Project Manager for Elimination |
L | lewisite |
M2S2 | Military Munitions Support Services |
MAPS | Munitions Assessment and Processing System |
MARB | Materiel Assessment Review Board |
MC | Munitions constituents |
MD | methyldichloroarsine |
MILCON | Military Construction |
MMAS | Mobile Munitions Assessment System |
MMRP | Military Munitions Response Program |
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 |
NDAA | National Defense Authorization Act |
NECD | Newport Chemical Depot |
NEPA | National Environmental Policy Act |
NEW | Net Explosive Weight |
NICP | National Inventory Control Point |
NSCMP | Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Project |
NSCWM | Non-Stockpile Chemical Warfare Materiel |
NSDM | National Security Decision Memorandum |
OASD(NCB) | Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, & Biological Defense Programs |
O&M | Operations and Maintenance |
OPCW | Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons |
OSD | Office of the Secretary of Defense |
PBA | Pine Bluff Arsenal |
PBCDF | Pine Bluff Chemical-Agent Disposal Facility |
PBEDS | Pine Bluff Explosive Destruction System |
PCD | Pueblo Chemical Depot |
PEO | Program Executive Office |
PEO ACWA | Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives |
PEOCBD | Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense |
PG | phosgene |
PINS | Portable Isotopic Neutron Spectroscopy |
PM ACWA | Program Manager Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (now PEO ACWA) |
PMCD | Program Manager for Chemical Demilitarization |
PMCDIR | Project Manager for Chemical Demilitarization and Installation Restoration |
PMCM | Program Manager for Chemical Munitions |
PMDCM | Program Manager for Demilitarization of Chemical Materiel |
PPBE | Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution |
PS | chloropicrin |
QA | Quality Assurance |
QL | diisopropyl aminoethylmethyl phosphonite |
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 |
RMA | Rocky Mountain Arsenal |
ROD | Record of Decision |
RRS | Rapid Response System |
SA | Secretary of the Army |
SCANS | Single CAIS Access and Neutralization System |
SCWO | Supercritical Water Oxidation |
SI | Site Inspection |
SOFA | Status of Forces Agreements |
TDC | Transportable Detonation Center |
TEAD | Tooele Army Depot |
| TEU | technical escort unit |
TNT | trinitrotoluene |
TOCDF | Toole Chemical-Agent Disposal Facility, Utah |
TSDF | Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facility |
UMCD | Umatilla Chemical Depot |
UMCDF | Umatilla Chemical-Agent Disposal Facility |
U.S. | United States |
U.S.C. | United States Code |
USACE | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
| USAESC | USACE Engineering Support Center, Hunstville (see also: CEHNC) |
USATHAMA | U.S. Army Toxic and Hazardous Materials Agency |
USD (AT&L) | Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics) |
USD(P) | Under Secretary of Defense for Policy |
USD(P&R) | Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness |
USEPA | United States Environmental Protection Agency |
UXO | Unexploded ordnance |
| VX | O-Ethyl S-2-diisopropylaminoethyl methyl phosphonothiolate |
WMD | weapon of mass desctruction |
WP | white phosphorus |
DoD Recovered Chemical Warfare Material (RCWM) Program
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