Terms and acronyms for the Missouri River Recovery Program are listed by letters of the alphabet below.
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A-C | 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 |
D-F | 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 |
G-L
| 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 |
M | 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 |
N-O | 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 |
P-R
| 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 |
S-T
| 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 |
U-Z
| 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) |