Acronyms
and Definitions
decoding the jargon...
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-A-AA - Affirmative Action
AAA - Area Agency on Aging; also American Automobile Association
AASHTO - American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
ADA - Americans with Disabilities Act
ADAMHS - Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services
ADT - Average Daily Traffic
AADT - Annual Average Daily Traffic
AICP - American Institute of Certified Planners
AIRS - Aerometric Information Retrieval System
ALAPCO - Association of Local Air Pollution Control Officials
AMPO - Association of Metropolitan Planning Organization
APA - American Planning Association
APCD - Air Pollution Control District
AQMD - Air Quality Management District
ASTM - American Society for Testing and Materials
ATAC - Aquifer Technical Advisory Committee
ATSDR - Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
AWQMP - Areawide Water Quality Management Plan
BACT - Best Available Control Technology
BAT - Best Available Technology
BCC - Board of County Commissioners
BEA - Bureau of Economic Analysis
BLS - Bureau of Labor Statistics
BMP - Best Management Practice (Water Quality)
BOCA - National Building Officials and Code Administrators International, Inc.
BOD - Biochemical Oxygen Demand
BR or BH - Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation
BUSTR - Bureau of Underground Stroage Tank Regulation
BV - Buried Valley, as in Buried Valley Aquifer
CAA - Community Action Agency
CAAA - Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990
CAC - Community Action Committee
CAER - Community Awareness and Emergency Response
CASAC - Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee
CBD - Central Business District
CCAO - County Commissioners Association of Ohio
CCSTCC - Clark County-Springfield Transportation Coordinating Committee
CDBG - Community Development Block Grant
CDC - Community Development Corporation
CERCLA - Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980; also known as Superfund.
CERCLIS - Comprehensive Environmental Response,Compensation, and Liability Information Systems
CFDA - Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
CFR - Code of Federal Regulations
CHEMTREC - Chemical Transportation Emergency Center
CIP - Capital Improvement Program
CJ - Criminal Justice
CJPB - Criminal Justice Policy Board
CL - County Line
CMAQ - Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Funds
CMHC - Community Mental Health Center
CMMA - Coalition of Major Metropolitan Areas
CMP - Congestion Management Process
CO - Carbon Monoxide
COC - Council of Citizens
COG - Council of Governments
CORSP - Council on Rural Service Programs, Inc.
COWPS - Council on Wage and Price Stability
CPI - Consumer Price Index
CPU - Central Processing Unit
CR - County Route
CRA - Community Reinvestment Act
CRS - Community Rating System
C/R/S - County/Route/Section Number
CSA - Community Services Administration
CSB - Children Services Board
CSU - Central State University
CTG - Control Technique Guidelines
CWA - Clean Water Act
CWDC - City Wide Development Corporation
CY -Calendar Year