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AIS - Aquatic Invasive Species
AMS - Agricultural Marketing Service (Department of Agriculture)
ANS - Aquatic Nuisance Species
ANSTF - Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force
APHIS - Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (Department of Agriculture)
ARS - Agricultural Research Service (Department of Agriculture)
BIA - Bureau of Indian Affairs (Department of the Interior)
BLM - Bureau of Land Management (Department of the Interior)
CABI - Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International; known as Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux prior to 1986
CBP - Customs and Border Protection (Department of Homeland Security)
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Department of Health and Human Services)
CSREES - Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service; now known as NIFA (Department of Agriculture)
DC - District of Columbia
DHHS - Department of Health and Human Services
DHS - Department of Homeland Security
DOC - Department of Commerce
DOD - Department of Defense
DOE - Department of Energy
DOL - Department of Labor
DOI - Department of the Interior
DOS - Department of State
DOT - Department of Transportation
EO - Executive Order
EDRR - Early Detection and Rapid Response
EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
EPMT - Exotic Plant Management Team (Department of Interior)
EPPC - Exotic Plant Pest Council
ERS - Economic Research Service (Department of Agriculture)
FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
FDA - Food and Drug Administration (Department of Health and Human Services)
FICMNEW - Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds
FS - Forest Service (Department of Agriculture)
GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility
FWS - Fish and Wildlife Service (Department of the Interior)
IFAS - Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
IPM - Integrated Pest Management
IPPC - International Plant Protection Convention
ISAC - Invasive Species Advisory Committee
ITAP - Federal Interagency Committee on Invasive Terrestrial Animals and Pathogens
ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System
IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NAL - National Agricultural Library (Department of Agriculture)
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NBII - National Biological Information Infrastructure; 1994-2012 (Department of the Interior)
NIFA - National Institute of Food and Agriculture; formerly known as CSREES (Department of Agriculture)
NIH - National Institutes of Health (Department of Health and Human Services)
NISC - National Invasive Species Council
NISIC - National Invasive Species Information Center (Department of Agriculture)
NLM - National Library of Medicine (Department of Health and Human Services)
NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Department of Commerce)
NPS - National Park Service (Department of the Interior)
NRCS - Natural Resources Conservation Service (Department of Agriculture)
PBS - Public Broadcasting System
PCA - Plant Conservation Alliance
PPQ - Plant Protection and Quarantine (Department of Agriculture)
RRISC - Reduce Risks from Invasive Species Coalition
SI - Smithsonian Institution
UN - United Nations
US/U.S. - United States
USACE - United States Army Corps of Engineers (Department of Defense)
USDA - United States Department of Agriculture
USGS - United States Geological Survey (Department of the Interior)
WRA - Weed Risk Assessment
WSSA - Weed Science Society of America
WWCC - Western Weed Coordinating Committee