List of Acronyms 
BEST 
CDF 
CRM 
CVAA 
CWA 
EMAP 
EPA 
ERL 
ERM 
GAO 
GCECD 
GCMS 
GIS 
ICPAES 
ICPMS 
LCM 
MDL 
NCA 
NCA-West 
NIS 
NOAA 
ORD 
PAH 
PCB 
QA/QC 
RL 
RPD 
SCCWRP 
SRM 
TOC 
WED 
Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends Program 
Cumulative Distribution Function 
Certified Reference Material 
Cold Vapor Atomic Adsorption 
Clean Water Act 
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
Effects Range Low 
Effects Range Median 
U. S. General Accounting Office 
Gas Chromatography and Electron Capture Detection 
Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectroscopy 
Geographic Information System 
Inductively-Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometer 
Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry 
Laboratory Control Material 
Method Detection Limit 
National Coastal Assessment 
National Coastal Assessment - West Coast regional component 
Nonindigenous Species 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 
EPA Office of Research and Development 
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons 
Polychlorinated Biphenyls 
Quality Assurance/Quality Control 
Reporting Limit 
Relative Percent Difference 
Southern California Water Resources Research Project 
Standard Reference Material 
Total Organic Carbon 
Western Ecology Division 
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