[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 27]
[Revised as ofJuly 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR440.50]

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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 440--ORE MINING AND DRESSING POINT SOURCE CATEGORY--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart E--Titanium Ore Subcategory
 
Sec. 440.50  Applicability; description of the titanium ore subcategory.


    The provisions of this subpart E are applicable to discharges from 
(a) mines obtaining titanium ores from lode deposits; (b) mills 
beneficiating titanium

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ores by electrostatic methods, magnetic and physical methods, or 
flotation methods; and (c) mines engaged in the dredge mining of placer 
deposits of sands containing rutile, ilmenite, leucoxene, monazite, 
zircon, and other heavy metals, and the milling techniques employed in 
conjunction with the dredge mining activity (milling techniques employed 
include the use of wet gravity methods in conjunction with electrostatic 
or magnetic methods).