Section 1 contains an alphabetically arranged list of scientific terms, as well as state, federal, and international regulations, initiatives, and organizations. The glossary is designed to be useful both for gaining a general sense of what a term means and for getting more detailed answers to questions. Each of the longer entries begins with a simple overview statement, sufficient for many readers, followed by more detail. Terms printed in bold within a definition are defined elsewhere in the glossary. Acronyms are listed after each term.

b

Basin Bayfield Institute Beneficial Use Beneficial Use-Impairment Benthic Benthic Invertebrate Benthos Best Available Control Technology BACT Best Available Technology BAT Best Management Practice BMP Binational Policy Task Force Binational Program Bioaccumulation Bioaccumulation Factor BAF Bioaccumulative Chemicals of Concern BCCs Bioassay Bioavailability Bioconcentration Factor BCF Biocriteria Bioindicator Biological Control Biological Criteria Biological Oxygen Demand BOD Biomagnification Biomonitoring Biosphere Board of Water and Soil Resources BWSR Boundary Waters Boundary Waters Treaty Broader Program Bythotrephes BC

c

Canada/Ontario Agreement COA Canadian Environmental Protection Act CEPA Carcinogen Causal (Candidate Critical) Pollutants Center for Lake Superior Environmental Studies CLSES Center for Water and the Environment CWE Chlordane Chlorinated Organic Compounds Chlorination Chlorine Chronic Test Chronic Toxicity Clean Air Act CAA Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 1990 CAAA Clean Water Act CWA Clean Water Act Reauthorization CWAR Coastal Waters Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990      CZARA Coastal Zone Management Act CZMA Code of Federal Regulations CFR Combined Sewer Overflow Comparative Risk Analysis Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and      Liability Act CERCLA, Superfund Comprehensive Local Water Management Plan Confined Disposal Facility CDF Cost-Benefit Analysis Council of Great Lakes Governors CGLG Council of Great Lakes Industries CGLI Council of Great Lakes Research Managers County Water Plan Criteria Criteria Pollutants Critical Pollutant

d

Decomposition Designated Scientific and Natural Areas SNA Designated Uses Dichlorodiphenyltrichloro-ethane DDT Dieldrin Dioxin TCDD Discharge Discharge of Dredged or Fill Material Duluth Seaway Port Authority Duluth-Superior Port Plan

e

Ecological Risk Assessment Ecosystem Ecosystem Charter for the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem Indicator Ecosystem Principles and Objectives for Lake Superior Effluent Effluent Limitation Endangered Species Act ESA Endangered Species Act Reauthorization ESAR Environment Canada Environmental Impact Assessment EIA Environmental Impact Statement EIS Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program EMAP Environmental Protection Agency EPA Environmental Research Laboratory - Duluth ERL-Duluth Erosion Estuary (Freshwater) Eurasian Ruffe Eurasian Watermilfoil Eutrophic Eutrophication Exotic Species Exposure Exposure Assessment

f

Fecal Coliform Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act FIFRA Federal Register Federal Water Pollution Control Act FWPCA Fill Material Fish Consumption Advisory Five-Year Strategy Flushing Time

g

General Permit Glossary of the Great Lakes GGL Great Lakes Great Lakes 2000 GL2000 Great Lakes Atmospheric Deposition Network Great Lakes Basin Great Lakes Charter Great Lakes Commission Great Lakes Critical Pollutants GLCP Great Lakes Critical Programs Act Great Lakes Enforcement Strategy Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory GLERL Great Lakes Fishery Commission GLFC Great Lakes Five-Year Strategy (1992) Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission GLIFWC Great Lakes Information Network GLIN Great Lakes Initiative GLI Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences      GLLFAS Great Lakes Maritime Industry Voluntary Ballast Water      Management Plan for the Control of Ruffe in Lake Superior Great Lakes National Program Office GLNPO Great Lakes Natural Resource Center Great Lakes Protection Fund GLPF Great Lakes Regional Office Great Lakes Research Office Great Lakes Science Advisory Board SAB Great Lakes Sea Grant Network Great Lakes Sport Fishing Council Great Lakes States Great Lakes States Air Permitting Agreement Great Lakes System Great Lakes Toxic Substances Control Agreement Great Lakes Toxics Reduction Effort GLTxRE Great Lakes Toxics Reduction Initiative GLTxRI Great Lakes Water Quality Advisory Board Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement GLWQA Great Lakes Water Quality Guidance GLWQG Great Lakes Water Quality Initiative GLWQI Great Waters Study Great Waters Program Groundwater

h

Half-Life Hazardous Air Pollutants HAPs Hazardous Waste Heavy Metals Hexachlorobenzene HCB House Great Lakes Task Force Human Health Criteria Hydric Soils Hydrophytic Vegetation

i

Individual Permit Industrial Waste Inflow and Infiltration I and I Institute for Lake Superior Research ILSR Intake Credits Integrated Great Lakes Atmospheric Deposition Network      IGLADN Integrated Pest Management IPM International Association for Great Lakes Research IAGLR International Joint Commission IJC Interstate Waters Invertebrates

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k

l

Lacey Act Lake Carriers Association Lake Michigan Mass Balance Study Lake Superior Lake Superior Basin Lake Superior Binational Forum Lake Superior Binational Program to Restore and Protect the      Lake Superior Basin Lake Superior Biosphere Reserve Lake Superior Center LSC Lake Superior Lakewide Management Plan LaMP Lake Superior Partnership Lake Superior Pollution Prevention Strategy P2 Strategy Lake Superior Pollution Prevention Team Lake Superior Project Lake Superior Research Institute LSRI Lake Superior Task Force Lakewatch Program Lakewide Management Plan LaMP Large Lakes Observatory LLO Leachate Legislative Commission on Minnesota Resources LCMR Lethal Concentration 50% LC50 Lethal Dose 50% LD50 Levels Reference Study Limited Resource Value Waters Limnology Load Load Allocation LA Load Capacity Local Governmental Unit LGU Lowest Observable Effect Concentration LOEC

m

Macrophytes Management Measures MM Mass Balance Mercury Hg Mesotrophic Mid-Continent Ecology Division MED Minnesota Acid Deposition Control Act Minnesota Air Toxics Strategy Minnesota Department of Health MDH Minnesota Department of Natural Resources MN DNR, DNR Minnesota Environmental Response and Liability Act MERLA Minnesota Interagency Exotic Species Task Force Committee Minnesota Pollution Control Agency MPCA, PCA Minnesota Rule Chapter 6280 Minnesota Rule Chapter 7001 Minnesota Rule Chapter 7007 Minnesota Rule Chapter 7009 Minnesota Rule Chapter 7021 Minnesota Rule Chapter 7050 Minnesota Rule Chapter 7060 Minnesota Rule Chapter 8420 Minnesota Sea Grant Minnesota Toxic Pollution Prevention Act TPPA Mitigation Mixing Zone Multi-Media Inspections Multimedia Risk Municipal Industrial Strategy for Abatement MISA Mutagen Mutation

n

Nations Waters National Ambient Air Quality Standards NAAQS National Biological Service NBS National Environmental Policy Act NEPA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA National Park Service NPS National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System NPDES National Priorities List NPL National Sea Grant College Program NSGCP Nationwide Permit NWP Natural Resources Conservation Service NRCS Natural Resources Research Institute NRRI Naturalized Species Navigable Waters Neurotoxin Nitrogen Oxides NOx No Net Loss No Observable Effect Concentration NOEC Non-Chemical Stressors Non-Indigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control      Act of 1990 Non-Indigenous Species Nonpoint Source Nonpoint Source Pollution NPS North Shore Management Board NSMB North Shore Management Plan NSMP Northeast Minnesota Waste Exchange NMWE Northeastern Minnesota Environmental and Economic Council      NEMEEC Nutrients

o

Octachlorostyrene OCS Oligotrophic Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters OFAH Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources OMNR Ordinary High Water Mark OHW Organic Chemicals Outfall Outstanding International Resource Waters OIRW Outstanding National Resource Waters ONRW Outstanding Resource Value Waters ORVW Ozone

p

Part 70 Permit Particulates Parts per Billion ppb Parts per Million ppm Parts per Thousand ppt Periphyton Persistent Toxic Substance pH Phytoplankton Plankton Point Source Point Source Pollution Pollutant Pollution Prevention P2 Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 Polychlorinated Biphenyls PCBs Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons PAHs Pretreatment Primary Productivity Primary Treatment Priority Pollutants Program Office Protected Waters Public Waters Public Waters Wetlands Publicly Owned Treatment Works POTW Purple Loofestrife

q

Quagga Mussel

r

Receiving Waters Region 5 Regional Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program      REMAP Regional Permit Regulation Remedial Action Plan RAP Report to Congress on Toxic Air Deposition to the Great Waters Residence Time Resource Conservation and Recovery Act RCRA Riparian Area Rip-rap Risk Assessment Risk Management Risk Reduction Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 River Watch Ruffe Ruffe Control Plan Ruffe Control Task Force Committee Rule

s

St. Louis River Management Plan St. Louis River Remedial Action Plan St. Louis River RAP St. Louis Riverwatch Science Advisory Board SAB Scientific and Natural Areas SNA Sea Grant Sea Lamprey Sea Lamprey Control Program Secchi Disk Depth SDD Secondary Treatment Section 10 10 Section 118 118 Section 305 (b) 305(b) Section 319 319 Section 401 401 Section 402 402 Section 404 404 Section 6217 6217 Sediments Seiche Sequencing Shorelands Shoreland Management Program Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute Site-Specific Criteria Soil and Water Conservation Districts SWCDs Soil Conservation Service SCS Source Reduction Special Designation Standard State Implementation Plan SIP State of the Lake Superior Basin Reporting Series SOTLSBRS State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference SOLEC State Shoreland Management Plan Statute Storm Sewers Storm Water Stressor Sulfur Dioxide SO2 Sunsetting Superfund Superfund Amendment Reauthorization Act SARA Superior Lakewatch Superior Work Group Surface Water

t

Teratogen Tertiary Treatment Thermal Stratification Total Maximum Daily Load TMDL Toxaphene Toxic Pollutant Toxic Substances Toxic Substances Management in the Great Lakes Basin Through the Permitting Process Agreement Toxicity Toxicity Test

u

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ACOE U.S. Ballast Water Management Regulation U.S. Coast Guard USCG U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary CGAUX U.S. Code USC U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture - Animal and Plant Health      Inspection Service APHIS U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA or U.S. EPA U.S. Geological Survey USGS

v

Variance Virtual Elimination Virtual Elimination Pilot Project Virtual Elimination Strategy Virtual Elimination Task Force Volatile Organic Compounds VOCs Voluntary PCB Phasedown Program

w

Wasteload Allocation WLA Wastewater Treatment Plant WWTP Water Quality Advisory Board Water Quality Agreement of 1987 Water Quality Board Water Quality Criteria Water Quality Guidance for the Great Lakes System GLI Water Quality Standard Water Table Water Use Classification Waters of the State Waters of the United States Watershed Western Lake Superior Region Resource Management      Cooperative WLSRRMC Western Lake Superior Sanitary District WLSSD Wet Deposition Wetland Conservation Act WCA Wetland Conservation Act Rules WCAR Wetland Mitigation Wetlands Whole Effluent Toxicity Test WET Wildlife Criteria Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources WDNR Wisconsin Lake Superior Basin Water Quality Management      Plan

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z

Zebra Mussel Zero Discharge Zero Discharge Demonstration Program Zone of Initial Dilution ZID Zooplankton