Building an Effective Environmental Management Science Program: Final Assessment (1997)

BEMR

The 1996 Baseline Environmental Management Report

DOD

U.S. Department of Defense

DOE

U.S. Department of Energy

DOE-EM (EM)

U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management

DOE-ER (ER)

U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Research

EM-50

U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Office of Science and Technology

EMSP

U.S. Department of Energy, Environmental Management Science Program

EPA

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

FACA

Federal Advisory Committee Act

FY

fiscal year (for the U.S. government, October 1 of a given year through September 30 of the following year)

GAO

U.S. General Accounting Office

GPO

U.S. Government Printing Office

GPRA

Government Performance and Results Act

HLW

high-level waste

H.R.

U.S. House of Representatives Bill

INEL

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NABIR

Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Program

NAS

National Academy of Sciences

NBS

National Bureau of Standards

NIH

National Institutes of Health

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology

NRC

National Research Council

NSF

National Science Foundation

ONR

Office of Naval Research (DOD)

OSTP

Office of Science and Technology Policy

P.I.

principal investigator

PNL

Pacific Northwest Laboratory

R&D

research and development

TRU

transuranic

USGS

U.S. Geological Survey

WIPP

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant