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Suggested Citation:"Terms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2006. New Source Review for Stationary Sources of Air Pollution. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11701.
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Terms and Abbreviations

ALAPCO: Association of Local Air Pollution Control Officials

BACT: best available control technology (This is the level of control required to obtain a PSD permit.)

BART: best available retrofit technology

Btu: British thermal unit

CAA: Clean Air Act, codified at 42 USC § 7401 et. seq.

CAFE: corporate average fuel economy

CAIR: Clean Air Interstate Rule

CAMR: Clean Air Mercury Rule

CASAC: Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee

CEM: continuous emission monitoring

CGE: computable general equilibrium

CO: carbon monoxide

Criteria pollutant: The Clean Air Act requires EPA to set National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for certain pollutants known to be hazardous to human health and the public welfare (for example, damage to forests and degradation of atmospheric visibility). In addition, these pollutants should be ones whose presence in ambient air results from numerous or diverse mobile or stationary sources. EPA has identified and set standards to protect human health and welfare for six pollutants: ozone, carbon monoxide, particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), sulfur dioxide, lead, and nitrogen oxide. The term criteria pollutants derives from the requirement that EPA must describe the characteristics and potential health and welfare effects of these pollutants. It is on the basis of such criteria that NAAQS are set or revised.

Suggested Citation:"Terms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2006. New Source Review for Stationary Sources of Air Pollution. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11701.
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DOE: U.S. Department of Energy

EIA: U.S. Energy Information Administration

EPA: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the agency that implements the Clean Air Act.

ERP: equipment replacement provision

ESP: electrostatic precipitator

FCCU: fluid catalytic cracking unit

FGD: flue-gas desulfurization

Greenfield: refers to an emission source that is part of a newly constructed facility at a site where no facility had previously existed

GW: gigawatts

HAP: hazardous air pollutant

HNO3: nitric acid

HRSG: heat recovery steam generator

H2S: hydrogen sulfide

IECM: integrated environmental control model

IGCC: integrated gasification combined cycle

IPM: Integrated Planning Model

LAER: lowest achievable emission rate (This is the level of control required to obtain a Part D NSR permit.)

LCA: life-cycle assessment

LNB: low-NOx burners

MACT: maximum available control technology

MW: megawatts

NAAQS: National Ambient Air Quality Standards (Many of the mechanisms of the Clean Air Act are aimed at attaining and maintaining compliance with these standards.)

NaOH: sodium hydroxide

Na2S: sodium sulfide

NEI: National Emissions Inventory

NEMS: National Energy Modeling System

NERC: National American Electric Reliability Council

NESHAP: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants

NH3: ammonia

N2O: nitrous oxide

N2O4: dinitrogen tetroxide

N2O5: dinitrogen pentoxide

NO: nitric oxide

NO2: nitrogen dioxide

NO3: nitrogen trioxide

NOx: nitrogen oxides

NOy: sum of NOx and other oxidized compounds

Suggested Citation:"Terms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2006. New Source Review for Stationary Sources of Air Pollution. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11701.
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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

TVA: Tennessee Valley Authority

UAM: Urban Airshed Model

VOC: volatile organic compound

Suggested Citation:"Terms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2006. New Source Review for Stationary Sources of Air Pollution. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11701.
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