Acronyms

Acronym

Meaning

3Rs

Recognize, Retreat, Report

AAD

Anniston Army Depot

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

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

USACE

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

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

UXO

Unexploded ordnance

U.S.

United States

U.S.C.

United States Code

USEPA

United States Environmental Protection Agency

USD(P&R)

Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness

WMD

weapon of mass desctruction

WP

white phosphorus