AA - Answer: atomic absorption
AC - Answer: power alternating current
ac - Answer: acre
AF - Answer: acre-foot (feet)
AFY - Answer: acre-foot per year
AMSA - Answer: Association of Metropolitan Sewerage
Agencies
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,ANSI - Answer: American National Standards Institute
APHA - Answer: American Public Health Association
AS - Answer: activated sludge
ASCE - Answer: American Society of Civil Engineers
ASME - Answer: American Society of Mechanical
Engineers
ASTM - Answer: American Society for Testing and
Materials
AWT - Answer: advanced wastewater treatment
AWWA - Answer: American Water Works Association
BECP - Answer: Business Emergency and
Contingency Plan
BNR - Answer: biological nutrient removal
BOD5 - Answer: biochemical oxygen demand after
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, 5 days
BTU - Answer: British thermal unit
C - Answer: Celsius
Cal-OSHA - Answer: California Occupational Safety and
Health Act
Cal-EPA - Answer: California Environmental Protection
Administration
CBOD - Answer: carbonaceous biochemical oxygen
demand
CCE - Answer: carbon chloroform extract
CCR - Answer: California Code of Regulations
cf - Answer: cubic feet (foot)
CFR - Answer: Code of Federal Regulations
cfs - Answer: cubic feet per second
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