| Acronym | Meaning |
| WSE | Wool Scouring Effluent |
| NELC | Non-exclusion Liquid Chromatography |
| SIMPEDS | Safety In Mines Personal Dust Sampler |
| ETBE | Ethyl Tert Butyl Ether |
| PEG | Polyethylene Glycol |
| TERRACE | Terrestrial Runoff Modeling For Risk Assessment Of Chem. Exposure |
| ECM | Electrochemical Machining |
| MIDAS | Metal Ion-dependent Adhesion Site |
| PSCC | Pseudostate Close Coupling |
| CEQA | California Environmental Quality Act |