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1864s |
Land grant institutions established by the Morrill Act of 1864 (one in every state; in the NE they are U. of Maine., U. of Vt., U. of N.H., UMass., UConn., U. of R.I., Rutgers, Cornell, Penn State, U. of Md., U. of Del., W.V.U., and U. of DC) |
1890s |
Historically black institutions of higher learning (in the NE there are only two, Delaware State and University of Maryland, Eastern Shore) |
1994s |
Native American institutions of higher learning (mostly community colleges; none in the NE) |
AA |
Administrative Advisor; an experiment station director who has been assigned to work with a multistate research project |
AC |
Advisory Council of the NE PMC |
AAPSE |
American Association of Pesticide Safety Educators (an organization of Cooperative Extension pesticide safety educators and pesticide certification instructors) |
APHIS |
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service |
AREERA |
Agricultural Research, Extension and Education Reform Act of 1998 (the 1998 Farm Bill) |
ARS |
Agricultural Research Service; the in-house research unit within USDA |
BOAA |
Board on Agriculture Assembly (the agricultural division of NASULGC) |
CABI |
Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau International |
CAR |
Crops at Risk (section 406 grants program through USDA CSREES) |
CARAT |
Committee to Advise on Reassessment and Transition (established by EPA and USDA to advise on strategic approaches to planning, transition, and tolerance reassessment for pesticides as required by the FQPA) |
CES |
Cooperative Extension Service |
CRIS |
Current Research Information System (program within CSREES/USDA that tracks research projects within land grant and USDA agencies |
CSREES |
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, USDA |
CWG |
Commodity Working Group (now IPM Working Group) |
ECOP |
Extension Committee on Organization and Policy (part of the BOAA in NASULGC) |
EPA |
Environmental Protection Agency |
EQIP |
Environmental Quality Incentives Program |
ESCOP |
Experiment Station Committee on Organization and Policy (part of the BOAA in NASULGC) |
ESS |
Experiment Station Section of the BOAA |
FFY |
Federal fiscal year |
FQPA |
Food Quality Protection Act |
FTE |
Full-time equivalent |
FY |
Fiscal year |
GAO |
General Accounting Office |
GO-IPM |
Greenhouse and Ornamentals IPM (an IPM Working Group with NEIPMC) |
GPRA |
Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 |
Hatch Funds |
Federal funds administered by experiment stations. The Hatch Act of 1887 established SAES and provided a mechanism for allocation federal support. Hatch Funds are also known as Formula Funds |
IFAFS |
Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems (grants program through USDA CSREES) |
IN project |
Information Network Project (now State Network Projects) |
IPM |
Integrated Pest Management, IPM Roadmap |
IWG |
IPM Working Groups (formerly CWG) |
LGU |
Land Grant University |
MRP |
Multistate Research Project, a coordinated research project between two or more experiment stations that is partially supported by a designated portion of Hatch Funds call Multistate Research Funds |
NAPIS |
National Agricultural Pest Information System |
NASS |
National Agricultural Statistics Service |
NASULGC |
National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges |
NEIPMC |
Northeastern Integrated Pest Management Center |
NEPMC |
Northeastern Pest Management Center |
NEPMNet |
New England Pest Management Network (information network project with NEIPMC) |
NERA |
Northeast Research Association (association of agricultural experiment stations in the northeast region: CT (2), DC, MA, ME, NH, NY (2), RI, PA, VT, and WV) |
NEREAP |
Northeast Research, Extension and Academic Programs Committee |
NFIPME |
National Foundation on IPM Education |
NJinPAS |
New Jersey Information Network for Pesticides and Alternative Strategies (information network project with NE PMC) |
NPD |
National Plant Board |
NRCS |
Natural Resource Conservation Service |
NRI |
National Research Initiative (grants program through USDA CSREES) |
OMB |
Office of Management and Budget |
OPMP |
Office of Pest Management Policy (part of USDA) |
OPP |
Office of Pesticide Programs (part of EPA) |
OPs |
Organophosphate pesticides |
PAT |
Pesticide applicator training |
PEAP |
Pesticide Education and Assessment Programs |
PESP |
Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program (a public-private partnership connected to EPA) |
PI |
Principle investigator |
PIAP |
Pesticide Impact Assessment Program (coordinated through USDA and states; established to promote informed regulatory decisions on registered pesticides) |
PMAP |
Pest Management Alternatives Program (a grants program with USDA) |
PMSP |
Pest Management Strategic Plan |
PPQ |
Plant Protection and Quarantine |
RAMP |
Risk Avoidance and Mitigation Program (section 406 grants program through USDA CSREES) |
RIPM |
Regional IPM (often used as shorthand for Regional IPM Grants Program in the Northeast) |
RFA |
Request for applications (formerly called RFPs; the federal gov't revised the term to RFA in 2001) |
RFP |
Request for proposals |
SAES |
State Agricultural Experiment Station(s) |
SARE |
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program |
SERA |
IEG Southern Extension and Research Activities-Information Exchange Group |
SPHD |
State Plant Health Director |
SPRO |
State Plant Regulatory Official |
SNP |
State Network Projects |
USDA |
United States Department of Agriculture |
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