[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: 40CFR418.56]



[Page 349-350]

 

                   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.  418.56  Pretreatment standards for new sources.



    The pretreatment standards under section 307(c) of the Act for a 

source within the nitric acid subcategory, which is a user of a publicly 

owned treatment works (and which would be a new source subject to 

section 306 of the Act, if it were to discharge pollutants to the 

navigable waters), shall be the standard set forth in part 128 of this 

chapter, except that, for the purpose of this section, Sec.  128.133 of 

this chapter shall be amended to read as follows: In addition to the 

prohibitions set forth in Sec.  128.131 of this chapter, the following 

pretreatment standard establishes the quantity or quality of pollutants 

or pollutant properties controlled by this section which may be 

discharged to publicly owned treatment works by a new source subject to 

the provisions of this subpart:

    (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:



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[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 2388, Jan. 16, 1976, as amended at 42 FR 16141, Mar. 25, 1977]