[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: 40CFR418.53]



[Page 348-349]

 

                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)

 

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

 

                    Subpart E_Nitric Acid Subcategory

 

Sec.  418.53  Effluent limitations guidelines representing the degree of 

effluent reduction attainable by the application of the best available 

technology economically achievable.



    The following limitations establish the quantity or quality of 

pollutants or pollutant properties which may be discharged by a point 

source subject to



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the provisions of this subpart after application of the best available 

technology economically achievable:

    (a) The following limitations establish the quantity or quality of 

pollutants which may be discharged in process waste water from nitric 

acid production in which all the raw material ammonia is in the gaseous 

form:



[Metric units, kg/kkg of product; English units, lb/1,000 lb of product]

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

                                                Effluent limitations

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

                                                        Average of daily

          Effluent characteristic             Maximum     values for 30

                                             for any 1  consecutive days

                                                day         shall not

                                                            exceed--

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

Ammonia (as N)............................      0.0045           0.00045

Nitrate (as N)............................        0.17             0.023

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



    (b) The following limitations establish the quantity or quality of 

pollutants which may be discharged in process waste water from nitric 

acid production in which all the raw material ammonia is in the shipped 

liquid form:



[Metric units, kg/kkg of product; English units, lb/1,000 lb of product]

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

                                                Effluent limitations

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

                                                        Average of daily

          Effluent characteristic             Maximum     values for 30

                                             for any 1  consecutive days

                                                day         shall not

                                                            exceed--

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

Ammonia (as N)............................        0.08             0.008

Nitrate (as N)............................        0.17             0.023

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





[41 FR 2387, Jan. 16, 1976, as amended at 42 FR 16141, Mar. 25, 1977]