[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: 40CFR406.62]



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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)

 

PART 406_GRAIN MILLS POINT SOURCE CATEGORY--Table of Contents

 

             Subpart F_Parboiled Rice Processing Subcategory

 

Sec.  406.62  Effluent limitations guidelines representing the degree of 

effluent reduction attainable by the application of the best practicable 

control technology currently available.



    Except as provided in Sec. Sec.  125.30 through 125.32, any existing 

point source subject to this subpart shall achieve the following 

effluent limitations representing the degree of effluent reduction 

attainable by the application of the best practicable control technology 

currently available (BPT):



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                                                Effluent limitations

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

                                                        Average of daily

          Effluent characteristic             Maximum     values for 30

                                             for any 1  consecutive days

                                                day         shall not

                                                            exceed--

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                                             Metric units (kilograms per

                                                  1,000 kg of rice)

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

BOD5......................................        0.42              0.14

TSS.......................................        0.24               .08

pH........................................       (\1\)             (\1\)

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

                                              English units (pounds per

                                               hundredweight of rice)

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

BOD5......................................       0.042             0.014

TSS.......................................       0.024              .008

pH........................................       (\1\)             (\1\)

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\1\ Within the range 6.0 to 9.0.





[39 FR 10513, Mar. 20, 1974, as amended at 60 FR 33937, June 29, 1995]