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AGNPS - Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution Model
AMC - Association of Minnesota Counties
AU - Animal Unit
AWQMP - Ambient Water Quality Monitoring Program

BERBI - Blue Earth River Implementation
BERT - Blue Earth River Team
BIA - Bureau of Indian Affairs
BMP - Best Management Practice
BNCJPB - Brown-Nicollet-Cottonwood Water Quality Joint Powers Board
BOD - Biological Oxygen Demand
BWSR - Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources

CARE - Cost And Return Estimator program
CBS - County Biological Survey
CCI - Conservation Credit Initiative
CCMR - Coalition for a Clean Minnesota River
CD - County Ditch
CERCLIS - Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Information System
CIR - Color Infrared Aerial Photography
CLMP - Citizen Lake Monitoring Program
CLP - Clean Lake Program
CLWP - Comprehensive Local Water Planning
COLA - Coalition of Lake Associations
CREP - Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program
CRP - Conservation Reserve Program
CRU - Crop Residue Use
CSAW - Common Stream and Watershed Numbering System
CSMP - Citizen Stream Monitoring Program
CT - Conservation Tillage
CURE - Clean Up our River Environment
CURA - Center for Urban and Regional Affairs
CWA - Clean Water Act
CWI - County Well Index
CWP- Clean Water Partnership

DCA - Detrended Correspondence Analysis
DEM - Digital Elevation Model
DENR - South Dakota Department of Enviromental and Natural Resources
DNR - Department of Natural Resources
DOQ - Digital Orthophoto Quadrangle
DOT - Department of Transportation
DOW - Division of Waters
DRG - Digital Raster Graphic
DU - Ducks Unlimited

EIS - Environmental Impact Statement
EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
EQB - Environmental Quality Board
EQIP - Environmental Quality Incentive Programs
ESAP - Energy and Sustainable Agriculture Program
EWI - Equal-Width Increment method
EWP - Emergency Wetlands Program
EWPP - Emergency Watershed Protection Program
EWRP - Emergency Wetlands Reserve Program

FANMAP - Farm Nutrient/Pesticide Management Assessment Program
FMB - Fall MoldBoard plowing
FSA - Farm Service Agency
FWMC - Flow Weighted Mean Concentration

GIS - Geographic Information System
GPS - Global Positioning System
GLEAMS - Groundwater Loading Effects of Agricultural Management Systems
GRASS - Geographic Resources Analysis Support
GWIS - Ground Water Site Inventory
GWMAP - Ground Water Monitoring and Assessment Program

HEL - Highly Erodible Land
HWIMS - Hazardous Waste Information Management System

IBI - Index of Biotic Integrety
ICI - Invertabrate Community Index
ISTS - Individual Sewage Treatment System
JD - Judicial Ditch

LAP - Lake Assessment Program
LARS - Local Government Units Annual Reporting System
LCMR - Legislative Commission for Minnesota Resources
LGU - Local Government Unit
LMIC - Land Management Information Center
LSP - Land Stewardship Project
LUST - Leaking Underground Storage Tanks Program

MAFC - Minnesota Agro-Forestry Cooperative
MBI - Macroinvertebrate Biotic Index
MCBS - Minnesota County Biological Survey
MCNC - Minnesota Chapter Nature Conservatory
MDA - Minnesota Department of Agriculture
MDH - Minnesota Department of Health
MDHA - Minnesota Deer Hunters Association
MES - Minnesota Extension Service
MGS - Minnesota Geological Survey
MGSCGA - Minnesota Geological Survey, County Geologic Atlases
MGSRGA - Minnesota Geological Survey, Regional Geologic Atlases
MINLEAP - Minnesota Lake Eutrophication Analysis Procedure
MISA - Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture
MLMIS - Minnesota Land Management Information System
MPF - Minnesota Pheasants Forever
MRAP - Minnesota River Assessment Project
MRBDC - Minnesota River Basin Data Center
MRBJPB - Minnesota River Basin Joint Powers Board
MSU - Minnesota State University, Mankato (Formerly Mankato State University)
MWA - Minnesota Waterfowl Association

NAWCA - North American Wetland Conservation Act
NAWQA - National Water Quality Assessment Program
NHIS - Natural Heritage Information System
NHP - Natural Heritage Program
NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPDES - National Pollution Discharge Elimination System Permit Program
NPS - Nonpoint Source
NPSPP - Nonpoint Source Pollution Potential model
NRCS - Natural Resources Conservation Service (Formerly Soil Conservation Service)
NRI - Natural Resource Inventory
NRRI - Natural Resources Research Institute
NSF - National Science Foundation
NUT MGT - Nutrient Management alternatives
NWI - National Wetland Inventory
NWIS - National Water Inventory System
OEA - Office of Environmental Assistance
OHWM - Ordinary High Water Mark
PCA - Pollution Control Agency
PDF - Portable Document File
PIC - Minnesota State Planning Information Center
PLP - Permanent List of Priorities

QHEI - Qualitative Habitat Evaluation Index

RC&D - Resource Conservation and Development Program
RCRCA - Redwood-Cottonwood Rivers Control Areas
RGA - Regional Geologic Assessment
RIM - Reinvest In Minnesota
RMS - Resource Management System
RT - Ridge Tillage

SCMCCWPP - South Central Minnesota County Comprehensive Water Planning Project
SDDWNR - South Dakota Department of Water and Natural Resources
SED MGT - Sediment Management alternatives
SFAM - Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota
SLR - Streambank, Lakeshore, and Roadside Program
SNA - Scientific and Natural Areas
SPA - State Planning Agency
SRWC - Short Rotation Woody Crop
SSURGO - Soil Survey Geographic Database
SWCD - Soil and Water Conservation District
SWWP - South-west 9 County Water Planning

TAC - Technical Advisory Committee (for the 37 county MRBJPB)
TNC - The Nature Conservancy
TR20 - Technical Release 20 model
TRS - Township, Range, Section
TSD - Treatment, Storage, and Disposal
TSI - Trophic Status Index
TWINSPAN - Two-way Indicator Species Analysis

UgST - Underground Storage Tank
UMRWD - Upper Minnesota River Watershed District
U of M - University of Minnesota
USACE - United States Army Corps of Engineers
USDA - United States Department of Agriculture
USDI - United States Department of Interior
USFWS - United States Fish and Wildlife Service
USGS - United States Geological Survey
USLE - Universal Soil Loss Equation
UTM -Universal Transverse Mercator

VIC - Voluntary Investigation and Cleanup
VOC - Volatile Organic Compound

WBP - Water Bank Program
WCA - Wetland Conservation Act
WEQ - Wind Erosion Equation program
WHIP - Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program
WILL - Watershed Implementation from the Local Level
WMA - Wildlife Management Area
WRC - Water Resources Center, Minnesota State, Mankato
WRP - Wetland Reserve Program
WPA - Waterfowl Production Area
WWTF - Wastewater Treatment Facility