Table 2. List of Acronyms

 

Acronym

Description

AFLA

Amended Final License Application

AIP

Agreement in Principle

AMC

Appalachian Mountain Club

AW

American Whitewater

BSTEM

Bank Stability and Toe Erosion Model

CAW

Crab Apple Whitewater, Inc.

CFD

Computation Fluid Dynamics

Cowasuck

Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook-Abenaki People

CRC

Connecticut River Conservancy

CRSEC

Connecticut River Streambank Erosion Committee

CRWC

Connecticut River Watershed Council (now CRC)

Elnu

Elnu Tribe of the Abenaki

EOEEA

Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs

FERC

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

FL

FirstLight

FRCOG

Franklin Regional Council of Governments

FRD

Franklin Conservation District

FRR

Full River Reconnaissance

HPMP

Historic Properties Management Plan

ISO

Independent System Operator- New England

LCCLC

Landowners and Concerned Citizens for License Compliance

MDCR

Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation

MDEP

Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection

MDFW

Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife

MEPA

Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act

Narragansett

Narragansett Indian Tribe

NE FLOW

New England Flow

NFM

Northfield Mountain

NHESP

Massachusetts Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program

NMFS

National Marine Fisheries Service

NOI

Notice of Intent

Nolumbeka

The Nolumbeka Project, Inc.

NPS

National Park Service

PAD

Pre-Application Document

PSP

Proposed Study Plan

QAPP

Quality Assurance Project Plan

RMP

Recreation Management Plan

RSP

Revised Study Plan

RTE

Rare, Threatened and Endangered

Stockbridge Munsee

Stockbridge-Munsee Tribal Historic Preservation

TCP

Traditional Cultural Properties

TF

Turners Falls Hydroelectric Project

TFI

Turners Falls Impoundment

TNC

The Nature Conservancy

USEPA

United States Environmental Protection Agency

USFWS

United States Fish and Wildlife Service

WMCC

Western Massachusetts Climbing Coalition

WQC

Water Quality Certificate

ZO

Zoar Outdoor