[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 40, Volume 29]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 40CFR437.21]



[Page 367]

 

                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)

 

PART 437_THE CENTRALIZED WASTE TREATMENT POINT SOURCE CATEGORY--Table 

of Contents

 

                  Subpart B_Oils Treatment and Recovery

 

Sec. 437.21  Effluent limitations attainable by the application of 

the best practicable control technology currently available (BPT).



    Except as provided in 40 CFR 125.30 through 125.32 or 437.20(b), any 

existing point source subject to this subpart must achieve the following 

effluent limitations representing the application of BPT:



                             BPT Limitations

------------------------------------------------------------------------

                                                               Maximum

            Regulated  parameter                 Maximum       monthly

                                                 daily 1        avg.1

------------------------------------------------------------------------

                         Conventional Parameters

------------------------------------------------------------------------

O&G.........................................     127           38.0

pH..........................................   (\2\)        (\2\)

TSS.........................................      74.1         30.6

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                            Metal Parameters

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Arsenic.....................................       2.95         1.33

Cadmium.....................................       0.0172       0.0102

Chromium....................................       0.746        0.323

Cobalt......................................      56.4         18.8

Copper......................................       0.500        0.242

Lead........................................       0.350        0.160

Mercury.....................................       0.0172       0.00647

Tin.........................................       0.335        0.165

Zinc........................................       8.26         4.50

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                           Organic Parameters

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Bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate.................       0.215        0.101

Butylbenzyl phthalate.......................       0.188        0.0887

Carbazole...................................       0.598        0.276

n-Decane....................................       0.948        0.437

Fluoranthene................................       0.0537       0.0268

n-Octadecane................................       0.589        0.302

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1 mg/L (ppm).

\2\ Within the range 6 to 9.





[65 FR 81300, Dec. 22, 2000, as amended at 68 FR 71023, Dec. 22, 2003]