ORR Acronyms and Abbreviations

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AM - Action Memorandum
BCV - Bear Creek Valley Y-12 waste disposal area)
BRA - Baseline Risk Assessment
CAP – Citizens' Advisory Panel of the LOC
CERCLA –  Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
EE/CA - Engineering Evaluation/ Cost Analysis

EFPC - East Fork Poplar Creek
ETTP - East Tennessee Technology Park (formerly K-25 plus ED-1)
EQAB - City of Oak Ridge Environmental Quality Advisory Board
D0 - Draft 0, A DOE Internal Version
D1 - Draft 1, The First External Version, sent to EPA & TDEC, etal.
D2 - Draft 2, Version issued for Public Comments
DOE - Department of Energy
FFA - Federal Facilities Agreement (signed by DOE, EPA and TN)
FS - Feasibility Study
FW - Field Work
InROD - Interim Record of Decision
IRC - Information Resource Center (2)
IROD - Interim Record of Decision
IPL - Integrated Program ?
LEFPC - Lower East Fork Poplar Creek (flows out of Y-12 through western Oak Ridge)
MAP - Management Action Process
MV - Melton Valley (ORNL waste disposal area)
LOC – DOE Local Oversight Committee
Ltr - Letter of Notification
OU - Operable Unit (may comprise several contaminant release points)
ORNL - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ORGDP - Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant (now ETTP)
OREJC – Oak Ridge Environmental Justice Committee
ORO - Oak Ridge Operations Office (inc. Paducah, Portsmouth, Weldon Springs, etc)

ORR - Oak Ridge Reservation
ORSSAB - - Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board
PA/SI - Preliminary Assessment/ Site Inspection

PBS - Project Baseline Summary
PIP - Public Involvement Plan
PP - Proposed Plan
RAR - Remedial Action Report
RAWP - Remedial Action Work Plan
RCRA – Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
RDR - Remedial Design Report

RDWP - Remedial Design Work Plan
RER - Remediation Effectiveness Report
RI/FS - Remedial Investigation/ Feasibility Study
RIWP - Remedial Investigation Work Plan
RmAR - Removal Action Report
RmAWP - Removal Action Work Plan
ROD - Record of Decision
SSAB – Site Specific Advisory Board (see ORSSAB)
TDEC  DOE/O - TN Department of Environment and Conservation DOE Oversight Office

UEFPC - Upper East Fork Poplar Creek (Y-12 and Chestnut Ridge)
WBS - Work Breakdown Structure (1)
WOC - White Oak Creek (flows through ORNL and MV to the Clinch River)


(1) The WBS # is the fundamental, hierarchical identification of DOE subprojects:

Example of Hierarchical Encoding: (some improvisation, TBC)

=Agency . Site/Program . Facility . Watershed . Action . Operable_Unit
=DOE_HQ. ORR_EM. Y-12. UEFPC. Remedial_Action. Chestnut Ridge Security Pits
=1.X.01.01.10.01

1 = DOE Headquarters
X = Oak Ridge Environmental Management
Facility: 1=Y12, 2=ORR Special Projects, etc.
Watershed: UEFPC, BCV, etc.
Action: Remedial Action, D & D, etc.
Operable_unit: Chestnut Ridge Security Pits, etc.
An Operable Unit comprises one or more contaminant release points

(2) The IRC is a good source of documents, information and the Administrative Record.

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Oak Ridge, TN 37830
Phone: 241 4582