Acronyms – The Alphabet Soup of Environmental Law

BLM - United States Bureau of Land Management

CAA - Clean Air Act

CERCLA - Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980

CWA - Clean Water Act

DNR - Indiana Department of Natural Resources

DOJ - United States Department of Justice

DOT - United States Department of Transportation

ELA - The Indiana Environmental Liability Act

ELF - The Indiana Excess Liability Fund

EPA - United States Environmental Protection Agency

EPCRA - Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (see Community Right to Know)

EPG - Ice Miller's Environmental Practice Group

EMS - Environmental Management System (See Environmental Audits)

FAA - Federal Aviation Administration

FHWA - Federal Highway Administration

FIFRA - Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (???)

FRA - Federal Railroad Administration

HMR - Hazardous Materials Requirements

IDEM - Indiana Department of Environmental Management

LUST - Leaking Underground Storage Tank

MDL - Multi-district Litigation

MSDS - Material Safety Data Sheet

NPDES - National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

PCB- Polychlorinated biphenyl

PRP - Potentially Responsible Party (see Contaminated Properties – CERCLA)

RCRA- Resource Conversation and Recovery Act

SDWA- Safe Drinking Water Act

TSCA - Toxic Substances Control Act

TRI - Toxic Release Inventory

USCG - United States Coast Guard

UST - Underground Storage Tank

USTA - Indiana's Underground Storage Tank Act

VRP - Indiana's Voluntary Remediation Program