Acronyms
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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