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Section 11 Glossary of Terms and Acronyms

EAA Storage Reservoirs Revised Draft PIR and EIS February 2006

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Oxygen demand— The biological or chemical demand of dissolved oxygen in

water. Required by biological processes for respiration.

Peat— Soil rich in humus or organic (exerts of oxygen demand) and is highly

porous.

Phosphorus— Element or nutrient required for energy production in living

organisms. Distributed into the environment mostly as phosphates by

agricultural runoff (fertilizer) and life cycles. Frequently the limiting factor for

growth of microbes and plants.

Planning Area— The entire Central and Southern Florida Project.

Preferred alternative— The alternative plan which is preferred by the action

agency, sponsor, or other entity, among the array of alternatives being

considered in the NEPA document.

Proposed action— Plan that a Federal agency intends to implement or

undertake and which is the subject of an environmental analysis. Usually, but

not always, the proposed action is the agency's preferred alternative for a

project. The proposed action and all reasonable alternatives are evaluated

against the no action alternative.

Project Area— The entire EAA basin.

Project Footprint— Includes those lands upon which the project features are

constructed.

Public involvement— Process of obtaining citizen input into each stage of the

development of planning documents. Required as a major input into any EIS.

Release— For this report, release is an intentional opening up of water control

structures to allow stored water to flow out for 2 reasons. First, to lower water

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