[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: 40CFR418.51]

[Page 348-349]
 
                TITLE 40-PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
      CHAPTER I-ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 418-FERTILIZER MANUFACTURING POINT SOURCE CATEGORY--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart E-Nitric Acid Subcategory
 
Sec. 418.51  Specialized definitions.

    For the purpose of this subpart:
    (a) Except as provided below, the general definitions, abbreviations 
and methods of analysis set forth in 40 CFR part 401 shall apply to this 
subpart.
    (b) The term product shall mean nitric acid on the basis of 100 
percent HNO3.
    (c) The term shipping losses shall mean: Discharges resulting from 
loading tank cars or tank trucks; discharges resulting from cleaning 
tank cars or tank trucks; and discharges from air pollution control 
scrubbers designed to control emissions from loading or cleaning tank 
cars or tank trucks.

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    (d) The term shipped liquid ammonia shall mean liquid ammonia 
commercially shipped for which the Department of Transportation requires 
0.2 percent minimum water content.
    (e) The term non-contact cooling water shall mean water which is 
used in a cooling system designed so as to maintain constant separation 
of the cooling medium from all contact with process chemicals but which 
may on the occasion of corrosion, cooling system leakage or similar 
cooling system failures contain small amounts of process chemicals: 
Provided, That all reasonable measures have been taken to prevent, 
reduce, eliminate and control to the maximum extent feasible such 
contamination: And provided further, That all reasonable measures have 
been taken that will mitigate the effects of such contamination once it 
has occurred.

[39 FR 12836, Apr. 8, 1974, as amended at 41 FR 2387, Jan. 16, 1976]