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ACOE
Army Corps of Engineers

AST
Aboveground Storage Tank

BMP
Best Management Practice

CERCLA
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

CESQG
Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator of
Hazardous Waste

CFR
Code of Federal Regulations

CVA
Clean Vessel Act

CZARA
Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990

DEC
Department of Environmental Conservation


DOT
Department of Transportation

EPA
United States Environmental Protection Agency

EPCRA
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986

HAP
Hazardous Air Pollutant

LDR
Land Disposal Restrictions (Hazardous Waste)

LQG
Large Quantity Generator of Hazardous Waste

MPPRCA
Marina Plastic Pollution Research and Control Act

MSD
Marina Sanitation Device

MSDS
Material Safety Data Sheet

MSW
Municipal Solid Waste

NFPA
National Fire Protection Association

NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NPDES
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

NYCRR
New York Code of Rules and Regulations


NYSDEC
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation


ODC
Ozone Depleting Chemical

POTW
Publicly Owned Treatment Works

RCRA
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

SPCC
Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure

SPEDES
State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

SQG
Small Quantity Generator of Hazardous Waste
(
Exempt Small Quantity Generator)

SWGP
Stormwater General Permit

SWPPP
Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan

TCLP
Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure

USC
United States Code

USCG
United States Coast Guard

UST
Underground Storage Tank

VOC
Volatile Organic Compound