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ACRONYMS, ABBREVIATIONS, AND INITIALISMS 

AADT: Annual Average Daily Trips

AB 118: Assembly Bill 118

AB 923: Assembly Bill 923 

ACC: Advanced Clean Cars

ACT: Alternative Control Techniques

AEO: Annual Energy Outlook

AERO: Advanced Emissions Reductions Options 

AIP: achieved in practice

AMI: acute myocardial infarction

AO: Agricultural Operations

APCO: Air Pollution Control Officer

AQI: Air Quality Index 

AQIP: Air Quality Incentive Program

AQMD: Air Quality Management District

AQMP: Air Quality Management Plan

AQS: Air Quality System

ARB: California Air Resources Board 

ARRA: American Reinvestment & Recovery Act

ATCM: Airborne Toxic Control Measure

ATV: all-terrain vehicles

BAAQMD: Bay Area Air Quality Management District 

BACM: Best Available Control Measure

BACT: Best Available Control Technology

BAM: beta-attenuation method

BAM/FEM: Real-time Beta-attenuation method monitors designated as federal 

equivalent method 

BAR: Bureau of Automotive Repair

BenMAP: The Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program

bhp: brake horsepower

BMP: best management practice

BVOC: biogenic volatile organic compound

CAA: Clean Air Act 

CAF: confined animal facility

CAPCOA: California Air Pollution Control Officers Association 

CARB: California Air Resources Board

CART: Classification and Regression Trees Method

CASAC: Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee 

CAV: Clean Air Vehicle

CCDAQ: Clark County Department of Air Quality

CCSE: California Center for Sustainable Energy
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CE-CERT: University of California, Riverside College of Engineering - Center for 

Environmental Research and Technology 

CEC: California Energy Commission

CEFS: California Emission Forecasting and Planning Inventory System

CEMS: Continual Emissions Monitoring System

CEQA: California Environmental Quality Act

CFO: Clean Fuels Outlet

CFR: Code of Federal Regulations

CGYM: Clean Green Yard Machine

CH&SC: California Health and Safety Code

ChIP: Charbroiler Incentive Program

CM: control measures

CMAQ: Community Multi-Scale Air Quality

CMB: chemical mass balance

CMP: Conservation Management Practice

CNG: compressed natural gas

CO: carbon monoxide 

CO2: carbon dioxide

COG: Council of Governments

COI: cost of illness

CPF: Conditional probability function

CRF: concentration response function

CRPAQS: California Regional Particulate Air Quality Study 

CSN: Chemical Speciation Network

CTG: Control Techniques Guidelines

CTM: Chemical transport models

CV: cardiovascular

CVRP: Clean Vehicle Rebate Project

DC&E: Design, Community, and Environment

DERA: Diesel Emission Reductions Act 

DF: deposition fraction

DMV: Department of Motor Vehicles

DOF: Department of Finance

DOGGR: California Department of Conservation’s Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal 

Resources

DOORS: Diesel Off-road On-line Reporting System

District: San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District 

DPF: diesel particulate filter

DPR: Department of Pesticide Regulation

EC: elemental carbon

EE: exceptional event

EF: emission factor

EF&EE: Engine, Fuel, and Emissions Engineering, Inc. 

EFMP: Enhanced Fleet Modernization Program

EIC: Emission Inventory Code

EMFAC: Emission Factors model
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EPA: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

EQIP: Environmental Quality Incentives Program

ER: emergency room

ERC: Emission Reduction Credits 

ESP: electrostatic precipitator 

eTRIP: Employer Trip Reduction Implementation Plan

FDOC: Final determination of compliance

FEM: federal equivalent method

FIP: federal implementation plan

FFMP: Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program

FMP: Flare Minimization Plan

FR: Federal Register 

FRM: Federal Reference Method

FTIP: Federal Transportation Improvement Plan

FY: fiscal year

GHG: greenhouse gas

GIS: geographic information systems

GMRP: Proposition 1B Goods Movement Emission Reduction Program

GSE: ground support equipment

GVWR: gross vehicle weight rating

HEP: head end power

HHDV: heavy heavy-duty vehicles

HVIP: Hybrid Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Program

IC: internal combustion

ICAPCD: Imperial County Air Pollution Control District

IEPR: Integrated Energy Policy Report

ILD: idle limiting device

ILEV: Inherently Low Emission Vehicle

IMPROVE: Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments

IMS-95: Integrated Monitoring Study in 1995

IQR: interquartile range

ISR: Indirect Source Review 

JPA: joint powers authority

kW: kilowatt 

lb/MMBtu: pounds per million British thermal units of heat output

LD50: dose causing death for 50% of the exposed subjects

LDA: light-duty passenger

LDT: light-duty trucks

LEV: low-emission vehicles

LHDV: light heavy-duty vehicles

LMA: Land Management Agency

LNG: liquefied natural gas

LPG: liquefied petroleum gas

LSI: large spark-ignited

LTO: low temperature oxidation

MACT: Maximum Achievable Control Technology
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MCY: motorcycles

MDL: minimum detection limit

MDV: medium-duty vehicles

MEGAN: Model of Emissions of Gases and Aerosols from Nature

MFB: mean fractional bias

MFE: mean fractional error

MH: motor homes

MHDV: medium heavy-duty vehicles

MHP: medium horsepower

MMBtu/hr: million British thermal units per hour

MMS: Mesoscale Meteorological Model

MODIS: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

MOU: Memorandum of Understanding

MPO: Metropolitan Planning Organization

MSW: municipal solid waste

MW: megawatt

NAAQS: National Ambient Air Quality Standards 

NCAR: National Center for Atmospheric Research

NESHAP: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants

ng/J: nanograms per Joule of heat output

NH3: ammonia

NMB: normalized mean bias

NOx: oxides of nitrogen 

NOy: reactive nitrogen

NQ: not quantifiable 

NRCS: Natural Resources Conservation Service

NSCR: non-selective catalytic reduction 

NSPS: New Source Performance Standards

NSR: New Source Review

O3: ozone

OB: other buses

OBD: On board diagnostics

OC: organic carbon

OH: Hydroxyl radicals

PAH: polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons 

PAN: Peroxy Acetyl Nitrate

PASS: Polluting Automobile Scrap and Salvage

PEER: Permit-Exempt Equipment Registration

PEV: Plug-in Electric Vehicles

PM: particulate matter 

PM0.1: ultrafine particles

PM2.0: particulate matter that is 2.0 microns or less in diameter

PM2.5: particulate matter that is 2.5 microns or less in diameter 

PM10: particulate matter that is 10 microns or less in diameter 

PMF2: Positive Matrix Factorization Model version 2

POA: Primary organic aerosols
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Ppb: parts per billion

Ppm: parts per million 

Ppmv: parts per million volume

PPN: Particulate protein nitrogen

PTFE: Poly Tetra Fluoro Ethylene

PUC: Public Utilities Commission 

QA: quality assurance

QC: quality control

RAAN: Real-Time Air Quality Advisory Network

RACT: reasonably available control technology 

RACM: reasonably available control measure

RARE: Regional Applied Research Effort

RBS: Risk-Based Strategy

REES: Regional Energy Efficiency Strategy 

REHEX: Regional Human Exposure Model

REMI: Regional Economic Models, Inc.

RFP: reasonable further progress 

RFP: request for proposal

RH: relative humidity

ROAR: Real-time Outdoor Activity Risk

ROG: reactive organic gases

ROP: Rate of Progress 

ROS: reactive oxygen species

RRD: respirable road dust

RSD: remote sensing device

RTO: regenerative thermal oxidizer

RTP: regional transportation plan

RV: recreational vehicles

RWC: residential wood combustion

SAFETEA-LU: Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A 

Legacy for Users 

SASS: Spiral Aerosol Speciation Sampler

SB: school buses

SB: Senate Bill

SB375: Senate Bill 375

SBS: sodium bisulfate

SC: source category

SCAQMD: South Coast Air Quality Management District

SCR: selective catalytic reduction

SCS: C-35 Sustainable Community Strategy

SFM: State Fire Marshall

SIP: state implementation plan 

SJV: San Joaquin Valley

SJVAB: San Joaquin Valley Air Basin 

SLAM: State & Local Air monitoring System

SMAQMD: Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District
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SMAT: Speciated Modeled Attainment Test

SMS: Smoke Management System

SO2: sulfur dioxide

SO3: sulfur trioxide

SOA: secondary organic aerosol 

SORE: small off-road engines

SOx: oxides of sulfur

Study Agency: San Joaquin Valleywide Air Pollution Study Agency

SUV: sport utility vehicles

SWCV: Solid Waste Collection Vehicle

TAC: toxic air contaminant

TCM: transportation control measure

TDM: transportation demand management

TOR: thermal optical reflectance

TOT: thermal optical transmittance

Tpd: tons per day 

Tpy: tons per year

TRU: transport refrigeration unit

TSD: technical support document

TSM: transportation system management

TSP: total suspended particulates

UB: urban buses

UCD-CIT: University of California/ California Institute of Technology

UCSF: University of California San Francisco

UFP: ultrafine particles 

μg/m3: micrograms per cubic meter

UHI: urban heat island 

ULNB: ultra-low NOX burner

USDA: United States Department of Agriculture

USDA-ARS: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service

USG: Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups

UTV: utility terrain vehicles

Valley: San Joaquin Valley

VCAPCD: Ventura County Air Pollution Control District

VDE: visible dust emissions

VDT: vehicle daily trips

VIP: Voucher Incentive Program

VMT: vehicle miles traveled

VOC: volatile organic compounds

VSL: value of a statistical life

WFU: Wildland Fire Use

WOE: Weight of Evidence

WTP: willingness to pay

XRF: X-ray fluorescence

ZEB: zero-emission bus

ZEV: zero-emission vehicle