MRRP Glossary/Acronyms

Acronym/Term	Name/Description
ac.ft.	acre-feet or acre-foot; a value of volume
ACHP	Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
ACT	Agency Coordination Team – within MRRP it usually refers to the Mitigation ACT Team, but it could also refer to the original BiOp ACT Team that later became the CORE Team.
AM	Adaptive Management; a flexible decision-making process that promotes collaboration
AOP	Annual Operating Plan
ARPA	Archaeological Resources Protection Act
ASA(CW)	Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works
BA	Biological Assessment
BIA	Bureau of Indian Affairs
BSNP	Missouri River Bank Stabilization and Navigation Project
BiOp	US Fish and Wildlife Service Biological Opinion
CERC	Columbia Environmental Research Center
c.f.s.	Cubic feet per second
CG	Construction General
CORE	COoperating for REcovery Team – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Missouri River Recovery Program Senior Product Delivery Team and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Corps	U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
CR	Conservation Recommendation (for threatened and endangered species)
CRP	Construction Reference Plane - a synthesized water surface profile
CRREL	Corps' Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
CSRP	Comprehensive Sturgeon Research Program
CSU/DSU	Channel Service Unit/Data Service Unit
CW	Civil Works
CWA	Clean Water Act
CY	Calendar Year

Acronym/Term	Name/Description
DOD	Department of Defense
DOI	Department of Interior
DPR	Detailed Project Report
DRGS	Direct Readout Ground Station
DRM	Daily Routing Model
DSS	HEC-Data Storage System
EA	Environmental Assessment
EIS	Environmental Impact Statement
EPA	Environmental Protection Agency
ERDC	Corps' Engineering Research and Development Center
ESA	Endangered Species Act
ESH	Emergent Sandbar Habitat
ESHERS	Emergent Sandbar Habitat Evaluation and Ranking System
ESRI	Environmental Service Research Institute
FEMA	Federal Emergency Management Agency
FIS	Flood Insurance Study
FONSI	Finding Of No Significant Impacts
FPC	Federal Power Commission
FTT	Flow-to-Target
FUI	Forecasted Ungaged Inflow
FWCA	Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act
FWG	Federal Working Group
FY	Fiscal Year

Acronym/Term	Name/Description
GIS	Geographic Information System
GPS	Global Positioning System
GSA	General Service Administration
HAMP	Habitat Assessment and Monitoring Project
HC	Human Considerations
HEC	Corps' Hydrologic Engineering Center
HMS	Corps' Hydrologic Modeling System
HQUSACE	Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Holdouts	Natural, or unregulated, flows
IDNR	Iowa Department of Natural Resources
IRC	Interception Rearing Complex (pallid sturgeon habitat)
ISETR	Independent Social and Economic Technical Review (ISETR) panel
ISAP	Independent Science Advisory Panel
ISP	Integrated Science Program
ISR	Independent Science Review
IWR	Institute for Water Resources
KAF	1,000 acre feet
Kcfs	1,000 cubic feet per second
KDWPT	Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism
LCC	Landscape Conservation Cooperatives
LCLSMS	Lewis and Clark Lake Sediment Management Study
LHRHa	Leutinizing Hormone-Releasing Hormone analogue
LiDAR	Light Detection and Ranging
LRGS	Local Readout Ground Stations
LRS	Long-Range Study

Acronym/Term	Name/Description
MAF	million acre-feet
MAPP	Mid-continent Area Power Pool
MBIAC	Missouri River Basin Inter-Agency Committee
MBRFC	National Weather Service Missouri Basin River Forecast Center
MBSA	Missouri Basin States Association
MBSC	Missouri Basin Survey Commission
MDC	Missouri Department of Conservation
MDNR	Missouri Department of Natural Resources
MECA	Midwest Electric Consumers Association
MFR	Memorandum for Record
MLDDA	Missouri Levee Drainage District Association
MNRR	Missouri National Recreational River
Monte Carlo	An assessment of risk or uncertainty probability based on a range of variables and unknowns.
MOU	Memorandum of Understanding
MRADS	Missouri River Automatic Data System
MRBA	Missouri River Basin Association
MRBC	Missouri River Basin Commission
MRBIR	Missouri River Basin Interagency Roundtable
MRBWMD	Missouri River Basin Water Management Division
MRERP	Missouri River Ecosystem Restoration Plan
MRNRC	Missouri River Natural Resources Committee
MRRIC	Missouri River Recovery Implementation Committee
MRRP	Missouri River Recovery Program
msl	mean sea level
MTFWP	Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks
MW	megawatt
MWh	megawatt hour
Master Manual	Missouri River Water Control Manual Master
Manual Study	Missouri River Master Water Control Manual Review and Update Study
MoRAST	Missouri River Association of States and Tribes

Acronym/Term	Name/Description
NAGPRA	Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
NAS	National Academy of Sciences
NEPA	National Environmental Policy Act
NGPC	Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
NHPA	National Historic Preservation Act
NOAA	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOHRSC	National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center
NPDES	National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
NPWRC	Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
NRCS	Natural Resource Conservation Service
NRMS	Natural Resource Management System
NWCC	National Water and Climate Center
NWD	Corps' Northwestern Division
NWK	Corps' Kansas City District
NWO	Corps' Omaha District
NWS	National Weather Service
O&M	Operations and Maintenance

Acronym/Term	Name/Description
P-S MBP	Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program
PA	Programmatic Agreement
PDT	Product Delivery Team
PIR	Project Information Report
PIT	Passive Integrated Transponder
PL	Public Law
PM	Project Manager
PMP	Project Management Plan
PNNL	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
ppm	parts per million
PrOACT	Problem Definition, Objectives, Alternatives, Consequences, Trade-offs (and Decide/Take Action) - a collaborative, structured decision-making process
PSH	Pallid Sturgeon Habitat
PSIV	Pallid Sturgeon Iridovirus
PgMP	Program Management Plan
QA/QC	Quality assurance/quality control
QPF	Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts
RAS	River Analysis System
RCC	Reservoir Control Center
RM	River Mile
ROD	Record of Decision
RPA	Reasonable and Prudent Alternative
RPM	Reasonable and Prudent Measures
RPMA	Recovery and Priority Management Area

Acronym/Term	Name/Description
SDSU	South Dakota State University
SEI	Sustainable Ecosystems Institute
SHPO	State Historic Preservation Officer
SOP	Standard Operating Procedure
SPDT	Senior Product Delivery Team
SR	Steady Release
SSARR	Streamflow Synthesis and Reservoir Regulation
SWE	Snow Water Equivalency
SWH	Shallow Water Habitat
Service	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Southwestern	Southwestern Power Administration
Sq. Mi.	square miles
System	Missouri River Main Stem Reservoir System
T&E	threatened and endangered species
Thalweg	The line connecting the points of lowest bed elevation in a river
THPO	Tribal Historic Preservation Officer
TMDL	Total Maximum Daily Load; the maximum 24 hour allowable load (concentration) of a pollutant in a stream (sediment, chemicals, etc.) expressed as a unit of measure per volume of water (mg per liter, parts per million (ppm), etc.)
TPDMS	Interior Least Tern and Piping Plover Data Management System
TPH	Interior Least Tern and Piping Plover Habitat
TPMP	Interior Least Tern and Piping Plover Monitoring Program
TWW	Top-width widening

Acronym/Term	Name/Description
UMRS FFS	Upper Mississippi River System Flow Frequency Study
UNET	Unsteady Flow through a Full Network
USACE	U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
USBR	U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
USD	University of South Dakota
USDA	U.S. Department of Agriculture
USFWS	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
USGS	U.S. Geological Survey
USIECR	U.S. Institute of Environmental Conflict Resolution
WAPA	Western Area Power Administration
WG	Work Group (within MRRIC)
WMA	Wildlife Management Area
WRDA	Water Resources Development Act(s) (1986, 1999, 2007)
WSFO	National Weather Service Weather Forecast Offices
WY	Water Year
Western	Western Area Power Administration
YOY	Young-of-year (used for pallid sturgeon)

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