[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: 40CFR418.52]

[Page 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. 418.52  Effluent limitations guidelines representing the degree of effluent reduction attainable by the application of the best practicable control 
          technology currently available.

    Except as provided in Sec.Sec. 125.30 through 
125.32, any existing point source subject to this subpart shall achieve 
the following effluent limitations representing the degree of effluent 
reduction attainable by the application of the best practicable control 
technology currently available (BPT):
    (a) The following limitations establish the quantity or quality of 
pollutants which may be discharged in process waste water from nitric 
acid production in which all the raw material ammonia is in the gaseous 
form:

[Metric units, kg/kkg of product; English units, lb/1,000 lb of product]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                             Effluent limitations
                                     -----------------------------------
                                                     Average of daily
       Effluent characteristic          Maximum        values for 30
                                       for any 1  consecutive days shall
                                          day       not exceed-
                                                         
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ammonia (as N)......................       0.007               0.0007
Nitrate (as N)......................        0.33                0.044
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    (b) The following limitations establish the quantity or quality of 
pollutants which may be discharged in process waste water from nitric 
acid production in which all the raw material ammonia is in the shipped 
liquid form:

[Metric units, kg/kkg of product; English units, lb/1,000 lb of product]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                             Effluent limitations
                                     -----------------------------------
                                                     Average of daily
       Effluent characteristic          Maximum        values for 30
                                       for any 1  consecutive days shall
                                          day       not exceed-
                                                         
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ammonia (as N)......................        0.08                0.008
Nitrate (as N)......................        0.33                0.044
------------------------------------------------------------------------


[39 FR 12836, Apr. 8, 1974, as amended at 41 FR 2387, Jan. 16, 1976; 42 
FR 16141, Mar. 25, 1977; 60 FR 33956, June 29, 1995]