[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 26]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR412.12]

[Page 199]
 
                TITLE 40-PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
      CHAPTER I-ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 412-CONCENTRATED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS (CAFO) POINT SOURCE CATEGORY--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart A-Horses and Sheep
 
Sec. 412.12  Effluent limitations attainable by the application of the best practicable control technology currently available (BPT).

    (a) Except as provided in 40 CFR 125.30 through 125.32, and subject 
to the provisions of paragraph (b) of this section, any existing point 
source subject to this subpart must achieve the following effluent 
limitations representing the application of BPT: There shall be no 
discharge of process waste water pollutants to navigable waters.
    (b) Process waste pollutants in the overflow may be discharged to 
navigable waters whenever rainfall events, either chronic or 
catastrophic, cause an overflow of process waste water from a facility 
designed, constructed and operated to contain all process generated 
waste waters plus the runoff from a 10-year, 24-hour rainfall event for 
the location of the point source.