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Appendix for Chapter 6

Appendix 6

Abbreviations and Acronyms

APD Application for Permit to Drill

API American Petroleum Institute

BACT best available control technology

BAST best available and safest technology

Bbbl billion barrels

BBO billion barrels of oil

Bcf billion cubic feet

BOP blowout preventer

B.P. before present

CAA Clean Air Act

CalCOFI California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries

Investigations

CCC California Coastal Commission

CCMP California Coastal Management Program

CD Consistency Determination

CEQ Council on Environmental Quality

CEQA California Environmental Quality Act

CFR Code of Federal Regulations

COE Corps of Engineers (U.S. Army) (also:

Corps)

COOGER California Offshore Oil and Gas Energy

Resources Study

CWA Clean Water Act

CZM Coastal Zone Management

CZMA Coastal Zone Management Act

DEIS Draft Environmental Impact Statement

DNV Det Norske Veritas

DOD Department of Defense (U.S.)

DOI Department of the Interior (U.S.) (also:

USDOI)

DOT Department of Transportation (U.S.)

(also: USDOT)

EA Environmental Assessment

EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone

EFH Essential Fish Habitat

EIA Energy Information Administration

(USDOE)

EIR Environmental Impact Report

EIS Environmental Impact Statement

EP Exploration Plan

ESA Endangered Species Act

ESP Environmental Studies Plan et al. and

others et seq. and the following

FAA Federal Aviation Administration

FCF Fishermen’s Contingency Fund

FEIS Final Environmental Impact Statement

FERC Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

FMC Fishery Management Council

FMP Fishery Management Plan

FONSI Finding of No Significant Impact

FR Federal Register

FWPCA Federal Water Pollution Control Act of

1972

FWS Fish and Wildlife Service

FY fiscal year

G&G geological and geophysical

GIS geographical information system

IPF impact-producing factor

LLD lower limit of detection

MARPOL International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships

MFCMA Magnuson Fishery Conservation and

Management Act of 1976

Mmbbl million barrels
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Delineation Drilling Activities Offshore Santa Barbara County

MMC Marine Mammal Commission

MMPA Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972

MMS Minerals Management Service

MPPRAC Marine Plastic Pollution Research and

Control Act of 1987

MSFCMA Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (of 1996)

MOU Memorandum of Understanding

NAAQS National Ambient Air Quality Standards

NACE National Association of Corrosion

Engineers

NAS National Academy of Sciences

n.d. no date

NEPA National Environmental Policy Act

NFEA National Fishing Enhancement Act

NHAP National Historic Preservation Act

NMFS National Marine Fisheries Service

NMS National Marine Sanctuary

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

NOI Notice of Intent to Prepare an EIS

NPDES National Pollution and Discharge

Elimination System

NRC National Research Council

OCD Offshore and Coastal Dispersion model

OCRM Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource

Management

OCS Outer Continental Shelf

OCSLA Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act

OSCP Oil Spill Contingency Plan

OSRA Oil Spill Risk Analysis

PM10 particulate matter smaller than 10

microns

ppm parts per million

ppt parts per thousand

PSD Prevention of Significant Deterioration

RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

RPA representative of the proposed action

SIP state implementation plan

SLC California State Lands Commission

sp. species

spp. multiple species

SSP Strategic Studies Plan

Stat. Statutes

State Tidelands State Tidelands and Submerged

Lands

SWRCB State Water Resources Control Board

tcf trillion cubic feet

TSP total suspended particulate matter

TSS Traffic Separation Scheme

U.S. United States

USAF U.S. Air Force

U.S.C. United States Code

USCG U.S. Coast Guard

USCOE U.S. Corps of Engineers

USDOC U.S. Department of Commerce

USDOE U.S. Department of Energy

USDOI U.S. Department of the Interior (also:

DOI)

USEPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

USFWS United States Fish and Wildlife Service

USGS U.S. Geological Survey

USN U.S. Navy

VOC volatile organic compound

WSPA Western States Petroleum Association