| Acronym | Meaning |
| PDES | Preliminary Draft Environmental Statement |
| LIGA | Lithographie |
| VRLA | Valve-regulated Lead-acid (batteries) |
| FOA | Frozen Orbital Approximation |
| DMEM | Dulbecco's Modified Eagle Medium |
| HSIA | Halogenated Solvents Industry Alliance |
| CCGM | Cabrera-Celli-Goodman-Manson (at. Scattering Theory) |
| JGOFS | Joint Global Ocean Flux Study |
| CPOM | Coarse Particulate Organic Matter |
| INEGA | Instituto Nacional De Estadistica |