[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: 40CFR409.22]



[Page 167-168]

 

                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)

 

PART 409_SUGAR PROCESSING POINT SOURCE CATEGORY--Table of Contents

 

          Subpart B_Crystalline Cane Sugar Refining Subcategory

 

Sec.  409.22  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):

    (a) Any crystalline cane sugar refinery discharging both barometric 

condenser cooling water and other process waters shall meet the 

following limitations. The BOD5 limitation is determined by the addition 

of the net BOD5 attributed to the barometric condenser cooling water to 

that amount of BOD5 attributed to the treated process water. The TSS 

limitation is that amount of TSS attributed to the treated process 

water. Where the barometric condenser cooling water and process water 

streams are mixed and impossible to measure separately prior to 

discharge, the values should be considered net.



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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 melt)

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

BOD5......................................        1.19              0.43

TSS.......................................         .27              0.09

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

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

                                              English units (pounds per

                                                    ton of melt)

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

BOD5......................................        2.38              0.86

TSS.......................................         .54               .18

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

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\1\ Within the range 6.0 to 9.0.



    (b) Any crystalline cane sugar refinery discharging barometric 

condenser cooling water only should be required to achieve the following 

net limitations:



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                                                Effluent limitations

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

                                                        Average of daily

          Effluent characteristic             Maximum     values for 30

                                             for any 1  consecutive days

                                                day         shall not

                                                            exceed--

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

                                             Metric units (kilograms per

                                                  1,000 kg of melt)

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

BOD5......................................        1.02              0.34

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

                                              English units (pounds per

                                                    ton of melt)

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

BOD5......................................        2.04              0.68

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[39 FR 10524, Mar. 20, 1974, as amended at 60 FR 33949, June 29, 1995]