[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 29]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR455.22]

[Page 473]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 455_PESTICIDE CHEMICALS--Table of Contents
 
     Subpart A_Organic Pesticide Chemicals Manufacturing Subcategory
 
Sec. 455.22  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). The following limitations establish the 
quantity or quality of pollutants or pollutant properties controlled by 
this paragraph which may be discharged from the manufacture of organic 
active ingredient:

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                                                Effluent limitations
                                           -----------------------------
                                                        Average of daily
         Effluent characteristics             Maximum     values for 30
                                             for any 1  consecutive days
                                                day         shall not
                                                            exceed--
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COD.......................................      13.000            9.0000
BOD5......................................       7.400            1.6000
TSS.......................................       6.100            1.8000
Organic pesticide chemicals...............        .010             .0018
pH........................................       (\1\)             (\1\)
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\1\ Within the range of 6.0 to 9.0.

Note: For COD, BOD5, and TSS, metric units: Kilogram/1,000 kg of total
  organic active ingredients. English units: Pound/1,000 lb of total
  organic active ingredients. For organic pesticide chemicals--metric
  units: Kilogram/1,000 kg of organic pesticide chemicals. English
  units: Pound/1,000 lb of organic pesticide chemicals.


[43 FR 44846, Sept. 29, 1978, as amended at 60 FR 33971, June 29, 1995]