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The AR location for DDJC - Sharpe is listed on Page 5. <br /> GLOSSARY OF TERMS/ACRONYMS <br /> Administrative Record (AR) a body of Federal Facilities Agreement (FFA)—Agreement <br /> documents that forms the basis f e selection of between the operating agency(site)and federal and state <br /> a particular response at a site. regulatory agencies on the schedule of cleanup activities, <br /> including preparation of work plans, reports,and remedial <br /> Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate designs. <br /> Requirements (ARARs)—Applicable requirements are those <br /> cleanup standards, standards of control,or other substantive Five-Year Review—A review required by CERCLA to <br /> environmental protection requirements,criteria,or limitations evaluate the status of a remedy. <br /> promulgated under federal or state law that specifically address <br /> a hazardous substance, pollutant,contaminant, remedial action, Groundwater—Water beneath the earth's surface that <br /> location, or other circumstance at a CERCLA site. Relevant and fills pores between soil and gravel particles to the point of <br /> appropriate requirements are those cleanup standards,standards saturation. Groundwater often flows more slowly than surface <br /> of control,and other substantive environmental protection water.Groundwater is the source of 80 percent of the United <br /> requirements,criteria,or limitations promulgated underfederal or States'water supply. <br /> state law that,while not"applicable"to a hazardous substance, <br /> remedial action, location,or other circumstance at a CERCLA site, Installation Restoration Program (IRP) A program <br /> address problems or situations sufficiently similar to those established in 1979 under which the Department of Defense <br /> encountered at the CERCLA site that their use is well suited began identifying,evaluating,and restoring its hazardous waste <br /> to the particular site. sites and controlling the migration of hazardous contaminants <br /> from those sites. <br /> Chromium—An inorganic element,chromium is <br /> a metal often used as a shiny decorative or protective coating. It Land Use Controls (LUC)—An example of institutional <br /> has been used extensively in paints and in plating operations. controls, LUCs are legal and administrative measures that <br /> help minimize the potential for human exposure to <br /> Cleanup—Actions taken to deal with the release contamination by restricting activity, use,and access to <br /> of contaminants that could affect human health and/or properties with residual contamination. <br /> the environment.The term "cleanup" is sometimes used <br /> interchangeably with the terms remedial action, removal action, Lead—A common soft, blue-gray metal. It is an inorganic <br /> response action or corrective action. element that has been used as a pigment for paints and inks. <br /> Comprehensive Environmental Response, Metals—Agroup of chemical elements characterized by <br /> Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)— their luster and ability to conduct electricity and heat. Lead and <br /> A 1980 federal law amended in 1986 to be referred to as chromium are examples of metals. <br /> "Superfund/SARA,"CERCLA provides funding and enforcement <br /> authority to environmental regulators for hazardous waste site National Contingency Plan (NCP)—A federal <br /> cleanup and hazardous waste spills.The release orthreat of regulation that guides the Superfund program.The NCP is the <br /> release into the environment of any defined hazardous substance federal government's blueprint for responding to both oil spills <br /> could result in CERCLA response or liability. Removal and and hazardous substance releases. <br /> remediation are the primary response actions under CERCLA. <br /> National Priorities List (NPL)—A list of sites <br /> Contaminants/Contamination—The presence of developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as <br /> chemicals in soil,water,and/or air, introduced by humans,with needing long-term remedial restoration.The purpose of the list <br /> the potential to pose risk to human health or the environment. is to inform the public of the most hazardous waste sites in the <br /> nation. DDJC-Sharpe is on the NPL, which is also referred to as <br /> Contaminants of Concern (COCs)—The contaminants the Superfund List. action requires <br /> that have been identified as needing evaluation for cleanup <br /> alternatives based on the remedial investigation and sampling. No Further Action (NFA NFA indicates that a site# <br /> no furtherfederal Superfund (assessment,cleanup,or <br /> Department of Toxic Substances Control enforcement),and that no further activities will be performed <br /> (DTSC)—AdepartmentwithintheCaliforniaEnvironmental at the site. <br /> Protection Agency. DTSC is a supporting agency for DDJC-Sharpe <br /> environmental restoration efforts. <br /> 6 <br />