Acronyms

ACC - Alabama Control Center

ACOE - Army Corp of Engineers

ACF - Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint

ACT - Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa

ADCNR - Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

ADEM - Alabama Department of Environmental Management

AL - Alabama

ALP - Alternative Licensing Procedures

APC - Alabama Power Company

APCA - Alabama Power Cooperative Approach

APEA - Applicant Prepared Environmental Assessment

B.A.I.T. - Bass Anglers Information Team

BOD - Biological Oxygen Demand

C - Celsius

CFR - Code of Federal Regulations

cfs - cubic feet per second

CPE - catch per unit effort

CPH - catch per hour

CRT - Cooperative Relicensing Team

DO - dissolved oxygen

EA - Environmental Assessment

EAP - Emergency Action Plan

ECPA - Electric Consumers Protection Act

EIS - Environmental Impact Statement

EMA - Emergency Action Agencies

EPAct - Energy Policy Act

F - Fahrenheit

FAD - fish accumulator device

FPA - Federal Power Act

FPC - Federal Power Commission (predecessor of FERC)

FERC - Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

ft - feet or foot

HPH - harvest per hour

IIP - Initial Information Package

kW - Kilowatt

mgd - millions of gallons per day

msl - mean sea level

MW - Megawatt

NEPA - National Environmental Policy Act

NGOs - non-government organizations

NMFS - National Marine Fisheries Service

NOI - Notice of Intent

NPDES - National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

NHPA - National Historic Preservation Act

NRHP - National Register of Historic Places

NWI - National Wetlands Inventory

PM&E - Protection, mitigation and enhancement

PMF - Probable Maximum Flood

RAT - Resource Advisory Team

SHPO - State Historic Preservation Officer

USDA - United States Department of Agriculture

USFS - United States Forest Service

USFWS - United States Fish and Wildlife Service

WMA - Wildlife Management Area