International Air Quality Advisory Board

SPECIAL REPORT ON
TRANSBOUNDARY AIR QUALITY ISSUES

November 1998


Acronyms
ADOM Acid Deposition Oxidants Model (Canadian Eulerian model)
AOI(s) Area(s) of Influence
AOV(s) Area(s) of Violation
BAT best available technology
CAFÉ Corporate Average Fuel Economy
CAPMoN Canadian Air and Precipitation Monitoring Network
CASAC Clean Air Act Science Advisory Committee
CEC Commission for Environmental Cooperation
CFC(s) chlorofluorocarbon(s)
CO2 carbon dioxide
DDT dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
ECOS Environmental Council of States
ECTSIG Eastern Canada Transboundary Smog Issue Group
EMAN Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network (Canada)
EMAP Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (U.S.)
EMEFS Eulerian Model Evaluation Field Study
EMEP European Monitoring and Evaluation Project
ERP External Review Panel
FERC Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
G.V.R.D. Greater Vancouver Regional District
HCB hexachlorobenzene
IADN Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network
IAQAB International Air Quality Advisory Board
IJC International Joint Commission
IMPROVE Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments
LEVs low-emission vehicles
LRTAP Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution
NADP National Atmospheric Deposition Program
NARSTO North American Research Strategy on Tropospheric Ozone
NEG/EP New England Governors and Eastern Premiers Association
NESCAUM Northeastern States for Co-ordinated Air Use Management
NO nitric oxide
NO2 nitrogen dioxide
NOX nitrogen oxides
NPRI National Pollutant Release Inventory
NSMP National Smog Management Plan
NSR New Source Review
O3 ozone
OTAG Ozone Transport Assessment Group
OTR Ozone Transport Region
PAH(s) polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon(s)
PCB(s) polychlorinated biphenyl(s)
PICs products of incomplete combustion
PCDDs polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin
PCDFs polychlorinated dibenzo furans
PM10 particulate matter (<10 microns)
PM2.5 fine particulate matter (<2.5 microns)
POP(s) persistent organic pollutant(s)
PRTR Pollutant Release and Transfer Register
PTS(s) persistent toxic substance(s)
RADM Regional Acid Deposition Model (U.S. Eulerian model)
RAMPs Regional Air Management Partnerships
RETC Registro de Emisiones y Transferencia de Contaminantes (Mexico)
RIPs Regionally Integrated Plans
ROSA Regional Ozone Study Area
RSMPs Regional Smog Management Plans
SIPs state implementation plans
SO2 sulfur dioxide
SOX sulfur oxides
SOMA Sulfur Oxides Management Area
TAPTR(s) Transboundary Air Pollution Transport Region(s)
TRI Toxic Release Inventory
TSP total suspended particulate
UNECE United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
ZEVs zero-emission vehicles

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