Throughout Guidance and elsewhere within Lasting Forests we have resisted using abbreviations in order to increase clarity and convenience for the many users of the system with extremely different interests and backgrounds. We have used some and will add to others as the system changes. The following list is intended to provide consistency and to aid in communicating among the many areas of resource management, land use planning, and environmental analyses.

AIDS	Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
API	American Petroleum Institute
ARPP	Annual Review of Portfolio Performance
ASAL	Agriculture Sector Adjustment Loan
ASQ	Allowable Sale Quantity
ASQ	Allowable Sale Quantity
ATV	All-Terrain Vehicle
BA	Beneficiary Assessment
BAST	Best Available and Safest Technologies
BLM	Bureau of Land Management
BMPs	Best Management Practices
BOD	Biochemical Oxygen Demand
BOP	Blowout Preventer
BP	Before Present
BP	Bank Procedure
BPT	Best Practicable Control Technology Currently Available
BPT	Best Practicable Control Technology Currently Available
CAA	Clean Atlantic Associates
CAS	Country Assistance Strategy
CDB	Caribbean Development Bank
CEM	Country Economic Memoranda
CEQ	Council on Environmental Quality
CETAP	Cetacean and Turtle Assessment Program
CFC	Chloroflourocarbon
CFR	Code of Federal Regulations
CGIAR	Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
CQST	Continental Offshore Stratigraphic Test
CVA	Certified Verification Agent
CZM	Coastal Zone Management
DAC	Development Assistance Committee
DBH	Diameter, Breast Height (4.5 feet)
DEIS	Draft Environmental Impact Statement
DES	Draft Environmental Statement
H*	an index for defining an ancient forest
MB/YR	thousand barrels per year
MCF	thousand cubic feet
MCF/D	thousand cubic feet per day
MGD	thousand gallons per day
mi	mile
mm	millimeters
MMCF	million cubic feet
MMCF/YR	million cubic feet per year
NRCS	Natural Resource Conservation Service (formerly Soil Conservation Service)
nmi	nautical mile
ORV	off-road vehicle
ppb	parts per billion
ppm	parts per million
psi	pounds per square inch
R	the land use system score for actual or likely conditions
R*	the land use system score for the desired condition, one meeting the objectives
sec	second
ug/g	micrograms per gram
ug/l	micrograms per liter
ul/l	microliters per liter
USFS	United States Forest Service

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