Acronyms List

AIMS

Assessment Information Management System

AOC

Area of Concern

AWEP

Agricultural Water Enhancement Program

BMP

Best Management Practice

BONWR

Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge

CAFO

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation

CALM

Consolidated Assessment and Listing Methodology

CCPI

Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative

CEES

Center for Earth and Environmental Science

CFU

Colony Forming Unit

CIG

Conservation Innovation Grant

CLP

Clean Lakes Program

CNPCP

Coastal Nonpoint Control Program

CREP

Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program

CRP

Conservation Reserve Program

CSO

Combined Sewer Overflow

CSP

Conservation Securities Program

CWA

Clean Water Act

CWI

Clean Water Indiana

CWSRF

Clean Water State Revolving Fund

CZARA

Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments

CZMA

Coastal Zone Management Act

DO

Dissolved Oxygen

DOR

Division of Reclamation

EDF

External Data Framework

EPA

Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA)

EQIP

Environmental Quality Incentives Program

ERB

Environmental Review Board

EWPP

Emergency Watershed Protection Program

FFY

Federal Fiscal Year

FOTG

Field Office Technical Guide

FRPP

Farmland and Ranchland Protection Program

FSA

Farm Service Agency

FWA

Fish and Wildlife Area

GAO

Government Accountability Office

GIS

Geographical Information System

GLRI

Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

GRTS

Grants Reporting and Tracking System

GW

Groundwater

GWMN

Groundwater Monitoring Network

HAB

Harmful Algal Bloom

HRW

Hoosier Riverwatch

HRI

Healthy Rivers Initiative

HUC

Hydrologic Unit Code

IAC

Indiana Administrative Code

IASWCD

Indiana Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts

IBC

Impaired Biotic Communities

IBI

Index of Biotic Integrity

IC

Indiana Code

ICP

Indiana Conservation Partnership

IDEM

Indiana Department of Environmental Management

IDNR

Indiana Department of Natural Resources

IFA

Indiana Finance Authority

IGS

Indiana Geological Survey

IR

Integrated Report

ISDA

Indiana State Department of Agriculture

IDOH

Indiana Department of Health

IU

Indiana University – Bloomington

IU-SPEA

Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs

IU

Indiana University – Indianapolis

IWLA

Indiana Watershed Leadership Academy

LaMP

Lakewide Management Plan

LARE

Lake and River Enhancement program

LMCP

Lake Michigan Coastal Program

L-THIA

Long-Term Hydrologic Impact Analysis tool

mIBI

Macroinvertebrate Index of Biotic Integrity

MOU

Memorandum of Understanding

MRBI

Mississippi River Basin Initiative

MS4

Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System

NASS

National Agricultural Statistics Service

NH3

Chemical formula for ammonia

NIPSCO

Northern Indiana Power Service Company

NIRPC

Northwest Indiana Regional Planning Commission

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NPDES

National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

NPS

Nonpoint source pollution

NRCS

Natural Resources Conservation Service

NWI

National Wetland Inventory

NWQI

National Water Quality Initiative

OISC

Office of the Indiana State Chemist and Seed Commissioner

ORSANCO

Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission

OSDS

On-site Disposal System (a.k.a. septic systems)

OSMRE

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement

OSRW

Outstanding State Resource Water

OWQ

Office of Water Quality (IDEM)

P.L.

Public Law

ppb

Parts per billion

ppm

Parts per million

PWQ

Pathway to Water Quality

QAPP

Quality Assurance Project Plan

QHEI

Qualitative Habitat Evaluation Index

QMP

Quality Management Plan

RAP

Remedial Action Plan

RC&D

Resource Conservation and Development District

RCAP

Rural Community Assistance Program

RPT

Recovery Potential Tool

RWWTF

Rural Wastewater Task Force

SIDMA

Social Indicators Data Management and Analysis tool

SMCRA

Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act

SRF

State Revolving Fund

SSC

Suspended sediment concentration

SSCB

State Soil Conservation Board

SWAP

Source Water Assessment Plan

SWCD

Soil and Water Conservation District

SWOT

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats analysis

SWQMP

Storm Water Quality Management Plan

TBD

To Be Determined

TKN

Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen

TMDL

Total Maximum Daily Load

TNC

The Nature Conservancy

TSS

Total suspended solids

U.S.C.

United States Code

USACE

United States Army Corps of Engineers

USDA

United States Department of Agriculture

USFS

United States Forest Service

USFWS

United States Fish and Wildlife Service

USGS

United States Geological Survey

WASCoB

Water and Sediment Control Basin

WHIP

Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program

WLEB

Western Lake Erie Basin

WMP

Watershed Management Plan

WQC

Water Quality Certification

WQMS

Water Quality Monitoring Strategy

WQS

Water Quality Standards

WREP

Wetland Reserve Enhancement Program

WRP

Wetland Reserve Program

WSS

Watershed Specialist

WWH

Warm-water habitat