[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: 40CFR418.53]

[Page 349-350]
 
                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. 418.53  Effluent limitations guidelines representing the degree of effluent reduction attainable by the application of the best available technology 
          economically achievable.

    The following limitations establish the quantity or quality of 
pollutants or pollutant properties which may be discharged by a point 
source subject to the provisions of this subpart after application of 
the best available technology economically achievable:
    (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)......................      0.0045              0.00045
Nitrate (as N)......................        0.17                0.023
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    (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

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Nitrate (as N)......................        0.17                0.023
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[41 FR 2387, Jan. 16, 1976, as amended at 42 FR 16141, Mar. 25, 1977]