Impaired Waters Program - List of Acronyms

BMP - Best Management Practice

CREP - Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program

CRP - Conservation Reserve Program

CWIBI - Cold Water Index of Biotic Integrity

EQIP - Environmental Quality Incentives Program

HBI - Hilsenhoff Biotic Index

LA - Load Allocation

MOS - Margin of Safety

NRCS - National Resource Conservation Service

RUSLE - Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation

RUSLE2 - Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (2)

TMDL - Total Maximum Daily Loads

TRM - Targeted Runoff Program

WBIC - Water Body Identification Code

WDNR - Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

WLA - Wasteload Allocation

WPDES - Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

Last Revised: Monday July 24 2006