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**COMMON ACRONYMS**

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  ABC/M       Activity-Based Costing/Management

  ACWI        Advisory Committee on Water Information

  AI          Avian Influenza

  ANSS        Advanced National Seismic System

  ANWR        Artic National Wildlife Refuge

  ALOT        Allotment table

  AO          Administrative Officer

  APS         Administrative Policy and Services

  AR          Accounts Receivable

  ARMI        Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative

  ATB         Across-the-Board

  AS/WS       Assistant Secretary for Water and Science

  ASC         Alaska Science Center

  ASIWPCA     Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control
              Administrators

  AVO         Alaska Volcano Observatory

  BASIS+      Budget and Science Information System

  BCA         Business Case Analysis

  BFA         Branch Fiscal Services

  BIA         Bureau of Indian Affairs

  BIS         Commerce - Bureau of Industry and Security

  BOR         U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

  BLM         U.S. Bureau of Land Management

  BLT         Business Leaders Team

  BPC         Bureau Program Council

  BPI         Budget and Performance Integration

  BRD         Biological Resources Discipline

  CA          Condition Assessment

  CAC         Civil Applications Committee

  CALFED      California Federal (Bay-Delta Authority program)

  CAP         Cooperative Agreements Program

  C&A         Certification and Accreditation

  CBM         Coalbed Methane

  CBP         Chesapeake Bay Program

  CDC         Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  CERC        Columbia Environmental Research Center

  CERP        Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan

  CISN        California Integrated Seismic Network

  CMGP        Coastal and Marine Geology Program

  CNMI        Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

  CPIC        Capital Planning and Investment Control

  CR          Central Region

  CRADA       Cooperative Research and Development Agreement

  CRSSP       Commercial Remote Sensing Space Policy

  CRWA        Charles River Watershed Association

  CSRS        Civil Service Retirement System

  CTBT        Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

  CTM         Cooperative Topographic Mapping

  CUES        Comprehensive Urban Ecosystems Studies

  CVO         Cascades Volcano Observatory

  CWD         Chronic Wasting Disease

  CWP         Cooperative Water Program

  DCIA        Debt Collection Improvement Act

  DEM         Digital Elevation Model

  DEP         \[State\] Department of Environmental Protection

  DEQ         \[State\] Department of Environmental Quality

  DiGIR       Distributed Generic Information Retrieval

  DOI         U.S. Department of the Interior

  DSS         Decision Support System

  EDMAP       Education Mapping program (in National Cooperative Geologic
              Mapping Program)

  EFT         Electronic Funds Transfer

  EHP         Earthquake Hazards Program

  EI          Enterprise Information

  ELT         Executive Leadership Team

  EO          Executive Order

  EOP         Executive Office of the President

  EPA         U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

  EPCA        Energy Policy and Conservation Act

  ER          Eastern Region

  EROS        Earth Resources Observation and Science

  ERP         Energy Resources Program

  ETM+        Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus

  FAA         Federal Aviation Administration

  FACA        Federal Advisory Committee Act

  FACTS II    Federal Agencies\' Centralized Trial-Balance System

  FAIR        Federal Activities Inventory Reform

  FASAB       Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board

  FBMS        Financial Business Management System

  FBWT        Fund Balance with Treasury

  FCI         Facilities Condition Index

  FECA        Federal Employee Compensation Act

  FEDMAP      Federal lands Mapping program (in National Cooperative
              Geologic Mapping Program)

  FEGLI       Federal Employees Group Life Insurance

  FEHB        Federal Employees Health Benefit

  FEMA        Federal Emergency Management Agency

  FERS        Federal Employees Retirement System

  FFMIA       Federal Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996

  FFS         Federal Financial System

  FGDC        Federal Geographic Data Committee

  FICA        Federal Insurance Contributions Act

  FISC        Florida Integrated Science Center

  FISMA       Federal Information Security Management Act

  FMT         Field Managers Team

  FMFIA       Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act of 1982

  FMMS        Facilities Maintenance Management System

  FSA         Farm Service Agency

  FTE         Full-Time Equivalent

  FWS         U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

  FY          Fiscal Year

  GAAP        Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

  GAM         Geographic Analysis and Monitoring Program

  GAO         Government Accountability Office

  GD          Geology Discipline

  GEODE       GEO-Data Explorer

  GeoMAC      Geospatial Multi-Agency Coordination

  GBIP        Great Basin Information Project

  GCDAMP      Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program

  GCMRC       Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center

  GCP         Global Change Program

  GIS         Geographic Information System

  GLSC        Great Lakes Science Center

  GEOSS       Global Earth Observation System of Systems

  GOS         Geospatial One-Stop

  GPRA        Government Performance and Results Act

  GPS         Global Positioning System

  GSA         General Services Administration

  GSN         Global Seismographic Network

  GWRP        Ground-Water Resources Program

  HBN         Hydrologic Benchmark Network

  HDOA        Hawaii Department of Agriculture

  HHS         \[Department of\] Health and Human Services

  HNA         Hydrologic Networks and Analysis \[program\]

  HR&D        Hydrologic Research and Development \[program\]

  HVO         Hawaii Volcano Observatory

  HWATT       Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Action Team

  ICL         International Consortium on Landslides

  ICWP        Interstate Council on Water Policy

  IEAM        Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

  IG          Inspector General

  IP          Investment Plan

  IRIS        Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

  InSAR       Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar

  IT          Information Technology

  JFA         Joint Funding Agreement

  LAS         Local Action Strategy

  LDCM        Landsat Data Continuity Mission

  LEAG        Long-term Estuary Assessment Group

  LHP         Landslide Hazard Program

  LiDAR       Light Detecting and Ranging

  LMV         Lower Mississippi Valley

  LRS         Land Remote Sensing

  LTRMP       Long-Term Resource Monitoring Program

  MCR         Management Control Reviews

  MODIS       Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

  MRDS        Mineral Resources Data System

  MRERP       Mineral Resources External Research Program

  MRP         Mineral Resources Program

  MSCP        Multi-Species Conservation Program

  MSH         Mount St. Helens

  MTBE        methyl tert-butyl ether

  NACO        National Association of Counties

  NADP        National Atmospheric Deposition Program

  NASA        National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  NASQAN      National Stream Quality Accounting Network

  NAWQA       National Water-Quality Assessment

  NBC         Dept. of Interior -- National Business Center

  NBII        National Biological Information Infrastructure

  NCAP        National Civil Applications Program

  NCGMP       National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program

  NCRDS       National Coal Resources Data System

  NED         National Elevation Dataset

  NEHRP       National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program

  NEIC        National Earthquake Information Center

  NEPA        National Environmental Policy Act

  NGA         National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

  NGIC        National Geomagnetic Information Center

  NGO         Nongovernmental organization

  NHD         National Hydrology Dataset

  NIEHS       National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

  NIFC        National Interagency Fire Center

  NIWR        National Institutes for Water Resources

  NLCD        National Land Cover Database

  NOAA        National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

  NPRA        National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska

  NPS         National Park Service

  NRIS        Natural Resource Information System

  NRC         National Research Council

  NRCS        Natural Resources Conservation Service

  NRP         National Research Program (research organization in USGS
              Water discipline)

  NSDI        National Spatial Data Infrastructure

  NSF         National Science Foundation

  NSIP        National Streamflow Information Program

  NTN         National Trends Network

  NWIS        National Water Information System

  NWQL        National Water Quality Laboratory

  NWS         National Weather Service

  OAFM        USGS Office of Accounting and Financial Management

  OBP         USGS Office of Budget and Performance

  OFR         Open-File Report

  OFS         Office of Fiscal Services

  OIG         Office of the Inspector General

  OGDB        Organic Geochemistry Database

  OLI         Operational Land Imager

  OMB         Office of Management and Budget

  OMS         Office of Management Services

  OPM         Office of Personnel Management

  OS          Office of the Secretary

  OSTP        Office of Science and Technology Policy

  PAR         Performance and Accountability Report

  PART        Program Assessment Rating Tool

  PES         Priority Ecosystems Science

  PP&E        Property, Plant, and Equipment

  PI          Principal Investigator

  PMA         President's Management Agenda

  PSNER       Puget Sound Near Shore Ecosystem Restoration

  R&D         Research and Development

  RGIO        Regional Geospatial Information Office

  RSSI        Required Supplementary Stewardship Information

  RTS         Reports Tracking System (Water Resources)

  SAFOD       San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth

  SAIN        Southern Appalachian Information Node

  SALT        Sub-allocation table

  SBFD        San Francisco Bay and freshwater delta

  SBSP        South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project

  SETAC       Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

  SFWMD       South Florida Water Management District

  SLC         Scan Line Corrector

  SGL         Standard General Ledger

  SIR         Surveys, Investigations, and Research

  STATEMAP    State mapping program (in Cooperative Geologic Mapping
              Program)

  SPARROW     SPAtially Referenced Regressions on Watershed Attributes

  SPRESO      South Pole Remote Earth Science Observatory

  SRTM        Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission

  SS          Science Support

  SST         Science Strategy Team

  TCOM        Tahoe Constrained Optimization Model

  TMDL        Total Maximum Daily Loads (Clean Water Act requirement)

  TSP         Thrift Savings Plan

  TROR        Treasury Report on Receivables

  TRPA        Tahoe Regional Planning Agency

  USACE       U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

  USDA        U.S. Department of Agriculture

  USFS        U.S. Forest Service

  USGCRP      U.S. Global Change Research Program

  USGS        U.S. Geological Survey

  VHP         Volcano Hazards Program

  V&V         Validation and Verification

  VSIP/VERA   Voluntary Separation Incentive Payment/ Voluntary Early
              Retirement Authority

  WAN         Wide Area Network

  WCF         Working Capital Fund

  WNV         West Nile Virus

  WPA         World Petroleum Assessment 2000

  WR          Western Region

  WRD         Water Resources Discipline

  WRIR        Water Resources Investigation Report

  WRRA        Water Resources Research Act

  WRRIs       \[State\] Water Resources Research Institutes

  WSC         \[USGS State\] Water Science Center

  WSWC        Western States Water Council

  YMP         Yucca Mountain Program

  YVO         Yellowstone Volcano Observatory
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