[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 40, Volume 29]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 40CFR503.40]



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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)

 

PART 503_STANDARDS FOR THE USE OR DISPOSAL OF SEWAGE SLUDGE--Table of 

Contents

 

                         Subpart E_Incineration

 

Sec.  503.40  Applicability.





    (a) This subpart applies to a person who fires sewage sludge in a 

sewage sludge incinerator, to a sewage sludge incinerator, and to sewage 

sludge fired in a sewage sludge incinerator.

    (b) This subpart applies to the exit gas from a sewage sludge 

incinerator stack.

    (c) The management practice in Sec.  503.45(a), the frequency of 

monitoring requirement for total hydrocarbon concentration in Sec.  

503.46(b) and the recordkeeping requirements for total hydrocarbon 

concentration in Sec.  503.47(c) and (n) do not apply if the following 

conditions are met:

    (1) The exit gas from a sewage sludge incinerator stack is monitored 

continuously for carbon monoxide.

    (2) The monthly average concentration of carbon monoxide in the exit 

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from a sewage sludge incinerator stack, corrected for zero percent 

moisture and to seven percent oxygen, does not exceed 100 parts per 

million on a volumetric basis.

    (3) The person who fires sewage sludge in a sewage sludge 

incinerator retains the following information for five years:

    (i) The carbon monoxide concentrations in the exit gas; and

    (ii) A calibration and maintenance log for the instrument used to 

measure the carbon monoxide concentration.

    (4) Class I sludge management facilities, POTWs (as defined in 40 

CFR 501.2) with a design flow rate equal to or greater than one million 

gallons per day, and POTWs that serve a population of 10,000 people or 

greater submit the monthly average carbon monoxide concentrations in the 

exit gas to the permitting authority on February 19 of each year.



[58 FR 9387, Feb. 19, 1993, as amended at 59 FR 9099, Feb. 25, 1994]