Facts: Acronyms Commonly Used in the Chemical Weapons Destruction Program

ACC-RI – U.S. Army Contracting Command – Rock Island
ACWA – Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives
AFA – Agent Filtration Area
AFO – Anniston Field Office (Alabama)
AMC – U.S. Army Materiel Command
ANS – Agent Neutralization System
APB – Acquisition Program Baseline
APB – Agent Processing Building
APG – Aberdeen Proving Ground (Maryland)
ASD(NCB) – Assistant Secretary of Defense (Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense)
AWS – Agent Washout System
BGCAPP – Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (Kentucky)
BPT – Bechtel Pueblo Team
BRAC – Base Realignment and Closure
BTA – Biotreatment Area
CA – Compliance Advisory
CAA – Clean Air Act
CAC – Citizens’ Advisory Commission
CAM – Cavity Access Machine
CAMS – Continuous Air Monitoring System
CAO – Chemical Agent Operations
CBARR – Chemical Biological Application & Risk Reduction
CDC – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDF – Chemical-Agent Disposal Facility
CDP – Chemical Demilitarization Program
CDPHE – Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
CEMS – Continuous Emissions Monitoring System
CLA – Chemical Limited Area
CMA – U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity
CMA-West – U.S. Army Chemical Materials Activity-West (formerly U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot)
COD – Certificate of Destruction
CSB – Control and Support Building
CSEPP – Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program
CWC – Chemical Weapons Convention
CWG – Closure Working Group
DASD(TRAC) – Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Threat Reduction and Arms Control)
DLA – Defense Logistics Agency
DOD – Department of Defense
DPE – Demilitarization Protective Ensemble
DTRA – Defense Threat Reduction Agency
ECR – Explosive Containment Room
EDT – Explosive Destruction Technology
EMA – Emergency Management Agency
EOC – Emergency Operations Center
EPA – Environmental Protection Agency
ERB – Enhanced Reconfiguration Building
FEMA – Federal Emergency Management Agency
GFE – Government Furnished Equipment
GPL – General Population Limit
GSA – U.S. General Services Administration
H/HD/HT Mustard Agent Types
HAZOP – Hazardous Operation
HAZWOPER – Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response
HWMU – Hazardous Waste Management Unit
ICAM – Improved Cavity Access Machine
ICB – Immobilized Cell Bioreactor
IDLH – Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health
IFD – Integrated Facilities Demonstration
IOD – Integrated Operations Demonstration
ISSA – Intra Service Support Agreements
JMC – U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command
MCB – Monochlorobenzene
MINICAMS Miniature Continuous Air Monitoring System
MME – Munitions Monitoring Enclosure
MOA – Memorandum of Agreement
MOU – Memorandum of Understanding
MPHRA – Multiple Pathway Health Risk Assessment
MSM – Munitions Service Magazine
MTS – Munitions Tracking System
MTU – Munitions Treatment Unit
NASEM – National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
NEPA – National Environmental Policy Act
Neut/Bio – Neutralization Followed by Biotreatment
NDAA – National Defense Authorization Act
NOD – Notice of Deficiency
OPCW – Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
OPP – Overpacked Pallets
ORR – Operational Readiness Review
OSD – Office of the Secretary of Defense
OSHA – Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OTS – Off-gas Treatment System
PAO – Public Affairs Officer/Office
PAS – Public Affairs Specialist
PCAPP – Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (Colorado)
PCD – U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot
PEO ACWA – Program Executive Office/Officer, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives
PMD – Projectile/Mortar Disassembly
PMR – Permit Modification Request
POAM – Plan of Action and Milestones
PPE – Personal Protective Equipment
PRP – Personnel Reliability Program
PSB – Personnel Support Building
PWG – Permitting Working Group
RCRA – Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
RD&D – Research, Development and Demonstration
SC – Systems Contractor
SDC – Static Detonation Chamber
SDS – Spent Decontamination System
SPM – Site Project Manager
SRC – Single Round Container
STEL – Short-Term Exposure Limit
SWMU – Solid Waste Management Unit
TAR – Temporary Authorization Request
TDG – Thiodiglycol
TMA – Toxic Maintenance Area
TOX – Toxic Area
TSDF – Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facility
UMT – Unventilated Monitoring Test
USACE – United States Army Corps of Engineers
USD(AT&L) – Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics)
VPP – Voluntary Protection Program
VSL – Vapor Screening Level
WPL – Worker Protection Limit

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