[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: 40CFR418.35]



[Page 346]

 

                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)

 

PART 418_FERTILIZER MANUFACTURING POINT SOURCE CATEGORY--Table of Contents

 

                       Subpart C_Urea Subcategory

 

Sec.  418.35  Standards of performance for new sources.



    The following standards of performance establish the quantity or 

quality of pollutants or pollutant properties, controlled by this 

section, which may be discharged by a new source subject to the 

provisions of this subpart:

    (a) The following limitations constitute the maximum permissible 

discharge for urea manufacturing operations in which urea is produced as 

a solution product:



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

                                             Effluent limitations (mg/l)

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

                                                        Average of daily

         Effluent characteristics             Maximum     values for 30

                                             for any 1  consecutive days

                                                day         shall not

                                                            exceed--

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

Ammonia (as N)............................        0.53              0.27

Organic nitrogen (as N)...................         .45               .24

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

Note: Metric units: Kilogram/1,000 kg of product; English units: Pound/

  1,000 lb of product.



    (b) The following limitations constitute the maximum permissible 

discharge for urea manufacturing operations in which urea is prilled or 

granulated:



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

                                             Effluent limitations (mg/l)

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

                                                        Average of daily

         Effluent characteristics             Maximum     values for 30

                                             for any 1  consecutive days

                                                day         shall not

                                                            exceed--

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

Ammonia (as N)............................        0.53              0.27

Organic nitrogen (as N)...................         .86               .46

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

Note: Metric units: Kilogram/1,000 kg of product; English units: Pound/

  1,000 lb of product.





(Sec. 306(b), Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 

1316(c)))



[39 FR 12836, Apr. 8, 1974, as amended at 43 FR 17827, Apr. 26, 1978; 44 

FR 9388, Feb. 13, 1979]