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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