Key Industry Terms 

  • ADP – AHERA Designated Person
  • AHERA – Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act
  • APA – Administrative Procedure Act
  • ATSDR – Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
  • BUSTR – Ohio Bureau of Underground Storage Tank Regulation
  • CAA – Clean Air Act
  • CAFO – Confined Animal Feeding Operation
  • CERCLA – Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Acts
  • CNS – Covenant Not to Sue issued under the VAP
  • CORF – Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund
  • CRO – Ohio Cessation of Regulated Operations
  • CWA – Clean Water Act
  • DNR – Department of Natural Resources
  • EMS – Environmental Management Systems
  • EPA – Environmental Protection Agency
  • EPCRA – Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act
  • ERAC – Environmental Review Appeals Commission
  • ESA – Endangered Species Act
  • ESA – Environmental Site Assessment (Phase I/Phase II)
  • FIFRA – Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act
  • GHG – Greenhouse Gas
  • LEED – Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
  • LEPP – Ohio Livestock Environmental Permitting Program
  • NEPA – National Environmental Policy Act
  • NFA – No Further Action letter issued under the VAP
  • NPDES – National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
  • ODA – Ohio Department of Agriculture
  • RCRA – Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
  • SARA – Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act
  • SDWA – Safe Drinking Water Act
  • SPCC – Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure
  • TAC – Technical Advisory Council at ODNR Division of Mineral Resources
  • TSCA – Toxic Substances Control Act
  • TSDF – Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facility
  • USGBC – US Green Building Council
  • VAP – Ohio Voluntary Action Program