Acronym Soup
DTSC is a department in this agency.
What is the EPA?
Mile
Lime
DTSC works closely with communities to share cleanup information and get input through meetings, fact sheets, and comment periods — this 2-word phrase names that process.
What is Public Participation?
Home to a rainforest so biodiverse that it produces roughly 20% of the world’s oxygen.
What is Brazil?
DTSC evaluates a potential site hazards before a full investigation, in a Preliminary Endangerment Assessment (PEA).
What is a Preliminary Assessment (PA)?
The federal law that governs the investigation and remediation of hazardous waste sites.
What is CERCLA?
Lake
Kale
If a conceptual site model keeps changing because contaminant plumes look different at 0–3 feet than at 8–10 feet, this two-word task probably wasn’t thorough enough the first time.
What is Soil Sampling?
This country’s volcanic islands and geysers attract thousands to the “Land of Fire and Ice.”
What is Iceland?
DTSC issues a certification to formally acknowledge that a cleanup is complete and the property meets risk-based standards for reuse.
What is No Further Action (NFA)?
The plan that outlines chosen cleanup actions for a contaminated site after investigation and alternatives analysis.
What is a RAP?
Lemon
Melon
As an early step in evaluating whether contamination may pose a risk, DTSC may conduct this two-word review of available history and data about a property.
What is Site Screening?
Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest peak, rises from the plains of this country.
What is Tanzania?
A DTSC-required report outlines the investigation and alternatives for site remediation, similar to the federal document used to evaluate and select cleanup actions.
A detailed study of a site’s contamination and possible remedies, often paired with a feasibility study.
What is a RI?
Among
Mango
After cleanup systems are installed, long-term oversight continues to make sure remedies stay protective; this ongoing two-word task often follows implementation.
What is Monitoring and Maintenance?
The Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, is found in this country.
What is Chile?
California’s document outlining the selected remedy, such as a Removal Action Workplan
What is a Record of Decision (ROD)?
The main agency for air quality in the San Francisco Bay Area.
What is BAAD (Bay Area Air District)?
No Tim One Grape
Pomegranate
The day the responsible party asks DTSC for something suitable for real estate files, lenders, and land records after meeting all RAP requirements — they’re likely seeking this two-word product.
What is a Certificate of Completion?
This is a four letter country in Africa.
What is Togo and/or Mali?
A California property undergoing investigation may have multiple sources and pathways identified; federally, this structured approach to evaluate risk to receptors is captured in this abbreviation.
What is a Human Health Risk Assessment (HHRA)?