[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: 40CFR418.55]

[Page 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. 418.55  Standards of performance for new sources.

    The following standards of performance establish the quantity or 
quality of pollutants or pollutant properties which may be discharged by 
a new source subject to the provisions of this subpart:
    (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
Nitrate (as N)......................        0.17                0.023
------------------------------------------------------------------------


[41 FR 2387, Jan. 16, 1976, as amended at 42 FR 16141, Mar. 25, 1977]