diff --git a/doc/OnlineDocs/contributed_packages/iis.rst b/doc/OnlineDocs/contributed_packages/iis.rst
index c6e588720b4..fa97c2f8c61 100644
--- a/doc/OnlineDocs/contributed_packages/iis.rst
+++ b/doc/OnlineDocs/contributed_packages/iis.rst
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ would result in feasibility.  The zero-tolerance is whatever the
 solver uses, so users may want to post-process output if it is going
 to be used for analysis. It also computes a minimal intractable system
 (which is not guaranteed to be unique).  It was written by Ben Knueven
-as part of the watertap project and is governed by a license shown
+as part of the watertap project (https://github.com/watertap-org/watertap)
+and is therefore governed by a license shown
 at the top of ``mis.py``.
 
 The algorithms come from John Chinneck's slides, see: https://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/chinneck/docs/CPAIOR07InfeasibilityTutorial.pdf
@@ -115,7 +116,7 @@ Hence for difficult NLPs even the “Phase 1” may “fail” – in that when
 constraints in the elastic filter may be feasible -- because IPopt failed to converge and we assumed that meant the 
 subproblem was not feasible.
 
-Dealing with NLPs is far from clean, but that doesn’t mean the tool can’t return useful results even when it’s assumptions are not satisfied.
+Dealing with NLPs is far from clean, but that doesn’t mean the tool can’t return useful results even when its assumptions are not satisfied.
 
 trivial_mis.py
 --------------
diff --git a/pyomo/contrib/iis/mis.py b/pyomo/contrib/iis/mis.py
index bc0bccdd5cf..7044d483f65 100644
--- a/pyomo/contrib/iis/mis.py
+++ b/pyomo/contrib/iis/mis.py
@@ -58,9 +58,9 @@ class _VariableBoundsAsConstraints(IsomorphicTransformation):
 
     def _apply_to(self, instance, **kwds):
 
-        boundconstrblockname = unique_component_name(instance, "_variable_bounds")
-        instance.add_component(boundconstrblockname, pyo.Block())
-        boundconstrblock = instance.component(boundconstrblockname)
+        bound_constr_block_name = unique_component_name(instance, "_variable_bounds")
+        instance.add_component(bound_constr_block_name, pyo.Block())
+        bound_constr_block = instance.component(bound_constr_block_name)
 
         for v in instance.component_data_objects(pyo.Var, descend_into=True):
             if v.fixed:
@@ -72,11 +72,11 @@ def _apply_to(self, instance, **kwds):
             if lb is not None:
                 con_name = "lb_for_" + var_name
                 con = pyo.Constraint(expr=(lb, v, None))
-                boundconstrblock.add_component(con_name, con)
+                bound_constr_block.add_component(con_name, con)
             if ub is not None:
                 con_name = "ub_for_" + var_name
                 con = pyo.Constraint(expr=(None, v, ub))
-                boundconstrblock.add_component(con_name, con)
+                bound_constr_block.add_component(con_name, con)
 
             # now we deactivate the variable bounds / domain
             v.domain = pyo.Reals
@@ -317,6 +317,7 @@ def _constraint_generator():
 
 
 def _get_results_with_value(constr_value_generator, msg=None):
+    # note that "lb_for_" and "ub_for_" are 7 characters long
     if msg is None:
         msg = ""
     for c, value in constr_value_generator:
@@ -335,6 +336,7 @@ def _get_results_with_value(constr_value_generator, msg=None):
 
 
 def _get_results(constr_generator, msg=None):
+    # note that "lb_for_" and "ub_for_" are 7 characters long
     if msg is None:
         msg = ""
     for c in constr_generator:
diff --git a/pyomo/contrib/iis/tests/test_mis.py b/pyomo/contrib/iis/tests/test_mis.py
index 266673f2ec9..bbdb2367016 100644
--- a/pyomo/contrib/iis/tests/test_mis.py
+++ b/pyomo/contrib/iis/tests/test_mis.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ def test_write_mis_ipopt(self):
         _test_mis("ipopt")
 
     def test__get_constraint_errors(self):
-        # A not-completely-cyincal way to get the coverage up.
+        # A not-completely-cynical way to get the coverage up.
         m = _get_infeasible_model()  # not modified
         fct = _get_constraint
 
@@ -76,14 +76,14 @@ def _check_output(file_name):
     trigger = "Constraints / bounds in MIS:"
     nugget = "lb of var y"
     live = False  # (long i)
-    wewin = False
+    found_nugget = False
     for line in lines:
         if trigger in line:
             live = True
         if live:
             if nugget in line:
-                wewin = True
-    if not wewin:
+                found_nugget = True
+    if not found_nugget:
         raise RuntimeError(f"Did not find '{nugget}' after '{trigger}' in output")
     else:
         pass
@@ -96,7 +96,6 @@ def _test_mis(solver_name):
     # This test seems to fail on Windows as it unlinks the tempfile, so live with it
     #    On a Windows machine, we will not use a temp dir and just try to delete the log file
     if os.name == "nt":
-        print("we have nt")
         file_name = f"_test_mis_{solver_name}.log"
         logger = logging.getLogger(f"test_mis_{solver_name}")
         logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)