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IPP acronyms and abbreviations
- AHL: Allowable Headworks Loading
 - BAT: Best Available Technology [Economically Achievable]
 - BCT: Best Conventional Pollutant Control Technology
 - BMP: Best Management Practice
 - BMR: Baseline Monitoring Report
 - BOD: Biochemical Oxygen Demand
 - BOD5: 5-day Biochemical Oxygen Demand
 - BPT: Best Practicable Control Technology [Currently Available]
 - CFR: Code of Federal Regulations
 - CIU: Categorical Industrial User
 - CROMERR: Cross-Media Electronic Reporting Rule
 - CSO: Combined Sewer Overflow
 - CWA: Clean Water Act
 - CWF: Combined Wastestream Formula
 - ELG: Effluent Limitations Guideline
 - EPA: [U.S.] Environmental Protection Agency
 - ERG: Enforcement Response Guide
 - ERP: Enforcement Response Plan
 - FDF: Fundamentally Different Factors
 - FOG: Fats, Oils, and Grease
 - FWA: Flow-Weighted Average
 - gpd: Gallons per Day
 - IU: Industrial User
 - IWS: Industrial Waste Survey
 - MAHL: Maximum Allowable Headworks Loading
 - MAIL: Maximum Allowable Industrial Loading
 - MG: Million Gallons
 - MGD: Million Gallons per Day
 - mg/L: Milligrams per Liter
 - NAICS: North American Industry Classification System (replaced Standard Industrial Classification [SIC] system)
 - NOV: Notice of Violation
 - NPDES: National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
 - NSPS: New Source Performance Standard
 - P2: Pollution Prevention
 - PCBs: Polychlorinated Biphenyls
 - POTW: Publicly Owned Treatment Works
 - PSES: Pretreatment Standards for Existing Sources
 - PSNS: Pretreatment Standards for New Sources
 - RCRA: Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
 - SIC: Standard Industrial Classification (replaced by NAICS)
 - SIU: Significant Industrial User
 - SNC: Significant Noncompliance
 - SUO: Sewer Use Ordinance
 - TOMP: Toxic Organic Management Program
 - TRE: Toxicity Reduction Evaluation
 - TRC: Technical Review Criteria
 - TSS: Total Suspended Solids
 
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