Air Quality Definitions and Activities

The NRCS Air Quality and Atmospheric Change National Technology Development Team (AQAC) has developed an Activities List and List of Acronyms and Definitions to help NRCS conservationists relate their everyday activities to air quality (AQ) formal NRCS practice standards, better understand the many AQ acronyms, and address upcoming issues related to the air resource.

The Activities List provides a connection from everyday on-farm actions to the formal NRCS practice standards and identifies air quality issues that can be addressed by those activities.  This list is a useful tool that planners can use to evaluate a producer’s operation for a program like CSP, or to use for more formal conservation planning to link producer activities with our practice standards.

The List of Acronyms and Definitions was originally put together by the AQAC Team to help new members of the USDA Agricultural Air Quality Task Force become familiar with agricultural air quality terminology that they might not otherwise understand.  Additionally, the list is a valuable resource for all NRCS employees who are currently or might become involved with air quality or atmospheric change questions.  Anyone interested in untangling the vexing number of acronyms in air quality will find this an invaluable resource.

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Both the Activities List  and the List of Acronyms and Definitions  are available at the NRCS Air Quality and Atmospheric Change website.
Your contact is Dr. Greg Johnson, NRCS AQAC Team Leader, at 503-273-2424.