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New Source Review for Stationary Sources of Air Pollution
NPRA: National Petrochemical and Refiners Association
NRC: National Research Council
NSPS: New Source Performance Standards
NSR: New Source Review (The collective name for the Part D NSR and PSD programs.)
O3 ozone
ODS: ozone-depleting substance
OTC: Ozone Transport Commission
PAL: plantwide applicability limitation (A PAL limits emissions from a source or facility as a whole.)
Part D NSR: This is the NSR program that applies to sources seeking permits in areas whose air quality violates the NAAQS.
PCP: pollution-control project
PM: particulate matter
PM2.5: particles less than 2.5 µm in aerodynamic diameter, called fine particles
PM10: particles less than 10 µm in aerodynamic diameter
ppm: parts per million
PSD: prevention of significant deterioration (This is the NSR program that applies to sources seeking permits in areas whose air quality complies with the NAAQS.)
R&D: research and development
RACT: reasonably available control technology
REMSAD: Regulatory Modeling System for Aerosols and Acid Deposition
RIA: regulatory impact analysis
RMRR: routine maintenance, repair, and replacement
R/R/R: retrofitting flue-gas desulfurization (FGD)—selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems, repowering, or retiring of a coal-fired electricity-generating facility
SCOT: Shell Claus off-gas treating
SCR: selective catalytic reduction
SIC: Standard Industrial Classification
SIP: state implementation plan (Every state must prepare a plan to show how it will attain and maintain the NAAQS.)
SNCR: selective noncatalytic reduction
SO2: sulfur dioxide
STAPPA: State and Territorial Air Pollution Program Administrators