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Non-living or non-biological; includes chemical and physical environments and processes.
- Browse Related Terms: Abiotic, Anthropogenic emissions, Demand-side management, Direct effects, Ecosystem, Effects, Full-time equivalent (FTE), Indirect effects, NatureServe, Noise criteria, Reclamation, Stressors
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- See Alternating current
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A measure of earthquake acceleration (i.e., shaking) on the ground surface expressed in g, the acceleration due to the Earth's gravity.
- Browse Related Terms: Acceleration (peak horizontal), Direct Normal Insolation (DNI), Earthquake, Excessive grades, Ground motion (shaking), Peak horizontal acceleration, Planetary boundary layer turbulence structure, Slope stability, Steep slopes, stolon, Surface water, Tsunami
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Gravel or dirt roads (rarely paved) that provide overland access to transmission line and pipeline rights-of-way (ROWs) and facilities for construction, inspection, maintenance, and decommissioning. Access roads have an average distance of 5 mi or less, have a nominal width of 15 ft, and exist within the center of a nominal 25-ft-wide ROW.
- Browse Related Terms: AADT, Access roads, Average Annual Daily Traffic (AADT), Climate, Glare, Low-income population, mean, Median household income, Median housing value, Milligauss (mG), Per capita income, Slip rate, Taxonomy
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A comprehensive term for the various ways acidic compounds precipitate from the atmosphere and deposit onto surfaces. It can include wet deposition by means of acid rain, fog, and snow; and dry deposition of acidic particles (aerosols).
- Browse Related Terms: Acid deposition, Alluvial, Alluvial flats, Alluvial plains, Delta, Excessive slopes, Fluvial, Geotextile mats, Interdune flat, Lacustrine wetland, Land disturbance in natural drainage systems, Overbank deposits, Shear strength, Soil deposition, Unconsolidated (basin fill deposits), Vernal pool
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Active Management Areas were established in Arizona to provide long-term management and conservation of limited groundwater supplies. In order to accomplish this, the AMAs administer state laws, explore ways of augmenting water supplies to meet future needs, and routinely work to develop public policy to promote efficient use and an equitable allocation of available water supplies.
- Browse Related Terms: Active Management Area (AMA), Adequate Water Supply Program, Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC), Arizona Water Banking Authority (AWBA), FLPMA, Grandfathered rights, Irrigation Non-Expansion Area (INA), Multiple Use Classes, Multiple use management, Potential Fossil Yield Classification (PFYC), Southwest Regional Gap Analysis Project (SWReGAP), Specially Designated Areas, Wild and Scenic Rivers (WSR) Act
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A volcano that is erupting. Also, a volcano that is not presently erupting, but that has erupted within an historical time and is considered likely to erupt in the future.
- Browse Related Terms: Active volcano, Caldera, Cinder cone, Crater, Eruption, Lava tubes, Maar, Magma, Pyroclastic flow, Pyroclastic surge, Silicic volcanism, tephra, Unrest (episode), Volcanic Ash, Volcanic cone, Volcano
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Resulting in immediate impacts; short-term.
- Browse Related Terms: Acute, Adverse environmental impacts, Best Management Practice (BMP), Compensatory mitigation, Contrast level, Design features, Direct impacts, Hedonic statistical framework, Impulsive noise, Just-in-time ordering, Key observation point(s) (KOP), Mitigation, Mitigation measures, PFYC, Region of Influence (ROI), Richter Magnitude Scale, View duration, Visual mitigation
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The Arizona Adequate Water Supply Program requires anyone who offers subdivided land outside of an Active Management Area for sale or lease to obtain a determination from the Arizona Department of Water Resources regarding the availability of water supplies before the land may be marketed to the public as defined in Arizona Administrative Code R12-15-715 et seq.
- Browse Related Terms: Active Management Area (AMA), Adequate Water Supply Program, Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC), Arizona Water Banking Authority (AWBA), FLPMA, Grandfathered rights, Irrigation Non-Expansion Area (INA), Multiple Use Classes, Multiple use management, Potential Fossil Yield Classification (PFYC), Southwest Regional Gap Analysis Project (SWReGAP), Specially Designated Areas, Wild and Scenic Rivers (WSR) Act
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- Impacts that are determined to be harmful to the environment. See also Effects
- Browse Related Terms: Acute, Adverse environmental impacts, Best Management Practice (BMP), Compensatory mitigation, Contrast level, Design features, Direct impacts, Hedonic statistical framework, Impulsive noise, Just-in-time ordering, Key observation point(s) (KOP), Mitigation, Mitigation measures, PFYC, Region of Influence (ROI), Richter Magnitude Scale, View duration, Visual mitigation
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A refined, steady-state plume model that incorporates air dispersion on the basis of a state-of-the-art planetary boundary layer turbulence structure and scaling concepts, and that builds wake effects and plume downwash for point sources. AERMOD is one of the EPA's preferred and recommended models for many regulatory applications.
- Browse Related Terms: AERMOD, Area sources (emissions), Emission factor, Fugitive dust, Lead, Non-point source pollution, Nonpoint sources, Nonroad mobile sources (emissions), Onroad mobile source (emissions), Plume model, Point source (emissions), source, Toxic air pollutant (TAP), Wake effect
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For an environmental impact statement, a description of the existing environment covering information necessary to assess or understand the impacts. It must contain enough detail to support the impact analyses and must highlight environmentally sensitive resources (e.g., floodplains, wetlands, threatened and endangered species, and archeological resources).
- Browse Related Terms: Affected environment, American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978 (AIRFA), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Cumulative impacts, Environmental assessment (EA), Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), Executive Order, Federal Register, National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), Record of Decision (ROD), Scoping
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Earthquakes that follow the largest shock of an earthquake sequence. They are smaller than the main shock and within one to two rupture lengths distance from the main shock. Aftershocks can continue over a period of weeks, months, or years. In general, the larger the main shock, the larger, and more numerous the aftershocks, and the longer they will continue.
- Browse Related Terms: Aftershocks, discharge, Early Archaic, extremely low frequency (ELF), Historic, Impingement, Late Archaic, Prehistoric, savanna, Sedentism, Seismic swarm, Swarm (seismic swarm), Thorn forest, Wind rose
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The sum total.
- Browse Related Terms: aggregate, Blowdown waste, Blowdown water, Composite noise level, Dish engine system, Dish engine technologies, IMPLAN
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Fires ignited to meet specific management objectives on agricultural lands.
- Browse Related Terms: Agricultural fires, Alternative, Land Use Plan, Prescribed fires, Resource Management Plan (RMP), Visual Resource Inventory (VRI), Visual Resource Inventory (VRI) Classes, Visual Resource Management (VRM) Class Designations, Visual Resource Management (VRM) Classes, Visual Resource Management (VRM) System
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Any substance in the air which could, if in high enough concentration, harm humans, other animals, vegetation, or material. Pollutants may include almost any natural or artificial composition of matter capable of being airborne.
- Browse Related Terms: Air pollutant, Animal unit, Animal Unit Month (AUM), Anthropomorphism, Consumptive use, Effigy, forage, Furbearer, Grazing, Hunter gatherers, Livestock watering area, Mammals
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Measure of the health-related and visual characteristics of the air to which the general public and the environment are exposed.
- Browse Related Terms: Air quality, Air Quality Standards, Ambient Air Quality Standards, California Ambient Air Quality Standard (CAAQS), Embryotoxicity, Hazardous air pollutant (HAP), Maximum contaminant level (MCL), National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), OSHA, receptor
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An interstate or intrastate area designated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the attainment and maintenance of National Ambient Air Quality Standards.
- Browse Related Terms: Air Quality Control Region (AQCR), Attainment, Class I area, Class II area, Clean Air Act (CAA), Criteria air pollutants, Exceedance, In attainment, NAAQS, Nonattainment area, Permit, Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Program, PSD increments
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The legally prescribed level of constituents in the outside air that cannot be exceeded during a specific time in a specified area.
- Browse Related Terms: Air quality, Air Quality Standards, Ambient Air Quality Standards, California Ambient Air Quality Standard (CAAQS), Embryotoxicity, Hazardous air pollutant (HAP), Maximum contaminant level (MCL), National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), OSHA, receptor
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