[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 27]
[Revised as ofJuly 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR432.11]

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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 432--MEAT PRODUCTS POINT SOURCE CATEGORY--Table of Contents
 
              Subpart A--Simple Slaughterhouse Subcategory
 
Sec. 432.11  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 ``slaughterhouse'' shall mean a plant that slaughters 
animals and has as its main product fresh meat as whole, half or quarter 
carcasses or smaller meat cuts.

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    (c) The term ``simple slaughterhouse'' shall mean a slaughterhouse 
which accomplishes very limited by-product processing, if any, usually 
no more than two of such operations as rendering, paunch and viscera 
handling, blood processing, hide processing, or hair processing.
    (d) The term ``LWK'' (live weight killed) shall mean the total 
weight of the total number of animals slaughtered during the time to 
which the effluent limitations apply; i.e., during any one day or any 
period of thirty consecutive days.
    (e) The term ``ELWK'' (equivalent live weight killed) shall mean the 
total weight of the total number of animals slaughtered at locations 
other than the slaughterhouse or packinghouse, which animals provide 
hides, blood, viscera or renderable materials for processing at that 
slaughterhouse, in addition to those derived from animals slaughtered on 
site.
    (f) The term ``oil and grease'' shall mean those components of 
process waste water amenable to measurement by the method described in 
``Methods for Chemical Analysis of Water and Wastes,'' 1971, EPA, 
Analytical Quality Control Laboratory, page 217.