[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 40, Volume 28]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 40CFR403.1]



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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)

 

PART 403_GENERAL PRETREATMENT REGULATIONS FOR EXISTING AND NEW SOURCES OF 

POLLUTION--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  403.1  Purpose and applicability.









Sec.

403.1 Purpose and applicability.

403.2 Objectives of general pretreatment regulations.

403.3 Definitions.

403.4 State or local law.

403.5 National pretreatment standards: Prohibited discharges.

403.6 National pretreatment standards: Categorical standards.

403.7 Removal credits.

403.8 Pretreatment Program Requirements: Development and Implementation 

          by POTW.

403.9 POTW pretreatment programs and/or authorization to revise 

          pretreatment standards: Submission for approval.



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403.10 Development and submission of NPDES State pretreatment programs.

403.11 Approval procedures for POTW pretreatment programs and POTW 

          granting of removal credits.

403.12 Reporting requirements for POTW's and industrial users.

403.13 Variances from categorical pretreatment standards for 

          fundamentally different factors.

403.14 Confidentiality.

403.15 Net/Gross calculation.

403.16 Upset provision.

403.17 Bypass.

403.18 Modification of POTW pretreatment programs.

403.19 Provisions of specific applicability to the Owatonna Waste Water 

          Treatment Facility.

403.20 Pretreatment Program Reinvention Pilot Projects Under Project XL.



Appendixes A-C to Part 403 [Reserved]

Appendix D to Part 403--Selected Industrial Subcategories Considered 

          Dilute for Purposes of the Combined Wastestream Formula

Appendix E to Part 403--Sampling Procedures

Appendix F to Part 403 [Reserved]

Appendix G to Part 403--Pollutants Eligible for a Removal Credit



    Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.



    Source: 46 FR 9439, Jan. 28, 1981, unless otherwise noted.





    (a) This part implements sections 204(b)(1)(C), 208(b)(2) (C)(iii), 

301(b)(1)(A)(ii), 301(b)(2) (A)(ii), 301(h)(5) and 301(i)(2), 304 (e) 

and (g), 307, 308, 309, 402(b), 405, and 501(a) of the Federal Water 

Pollution Control Act as amended by the Clean Water Act of 1977 (Pub. L. 

95-217) or ``The Act''. It establishes responsibilities of Federal, 

State, and local government, industry and the public to implement 

National Pretreatment Standards to control pollutants which pass through 

or interfere with treatment processes in Publicly Owned Treatment Works 

(POTWs) or which may contaminate sewage sludge.

    (b) This regulation applies:

    (1) To pollutants from non-domestic sources covered by Pretreatment 

Standards which are indirectly discharged into or transported by truck 

or rail or otherwise introduced into POTWs as defined below in Sec.  

403.3;

    (2) To POTWs which receive wastewater from sources subject to 

National Pretreatment Standards;

    (3) To States which have or are applying for National Pollutant 

Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) programs approved in accordance 

with section 402 of the Act; and

    (4) To any new or existing source subject to Pretreatment Standards. 

National Pretreatment Standards do not apply to sources which Discharge 

to a sewer which is not connected to a POTW Treatment Plant.



[46 FR 9439, Jan. 28, 1981, as amended at 48 FR 2776, Jan. 21, 1983; 60 

FR 33932, June 29, 1995]