Message posted by Peter Merlin on August 24, 2010 at 8:51:26 PST:

It sounds like yet another example of the government assigning a more complicated word grouping to replace something simple and intuitively understandable. Other examples including changing "Threat Condition (THREATCON)" to "Force Protection Condition (FPCON)" or changing "Drug Rehab Clinic" to "Drug Demand Reduction Center."

At least it is less ironic than the previous name change:
Nevada Test Site - An Environmental Research Park

In Reply to: Nevada Test Site Gets New Name posted by Peter A. Forkes on August 23, 2010 at 20:30:04 PST:

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