[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: 40CFR455.47]

[Page 479-480]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 455_PESTICIDE CHEMICALS--Table of Contents
 
   Subpart C_Pesticide Chemicals Formulating and Packaging Subcategory
 
Sec. 455.47  Pretreatment standards for new sources (PSNS).

    (a) Except as provided in 40 CFR 403.7 and 403.13 or in paragraph 
(b) of this section, any new source subject to this subpart which 
introduces pollutants into a publicly owned treatment works must comply 
with 40 CFR part 403 and achieve PSNS as follows: There shall be no 
discharge of process wastewater pollutants.
    (b) Except as provided in 40 CFR 403.7 and 403.13, any new source 
subject to paragraph (a) of this section which introduces pollutants 
into a publicly owned treatment works must comply with 40 CFR part 403 
and may have a pollution prevention allowable discharge of wastewater 
pollutants, as defined in Sec. 455.41(d), if the discharger agrees to 
control mechanism or pretreatment agreement conditions as follows:

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    (1) The discharger will meet the requirements of the Pollution 
Prevention Alternative listed in Table 8 to this Part 455 (or received a 
modification by Best Engineering Judgement for modifications not listed 
in Table 8 to this Part 455);
    (2) The discharger will notify its local Control Authority at the 
time of submitting its application for an individual control mechanism 
or pretreatment agreement of its intent to utilize the Pollution 
Prevention Alternative by submitting to the local Control Authority an 
initial certification statement as described in Sec. 455.41(a);
    (3) The discharger will submit to its local Control Authority a 
periodic certification statement as described in Sec. 455.41(b) during 
the months of June and December of each year of operation; and
    (4) The discharger will maintain at the offices of the facility and 
make available for inspection the on-site compliance paperwork as 
described in Sec. 455.41(c).
    (c) Except as provided in 40 CFR 403.7 and 403.13, any new source 
subject to paragraph (b) of this section which introduces pollutants 
into a publicly owned treatment works must comply with 40 CFR part 403 
and may submit a request to its Control Authority to waive pretreatment 
of: floor wash; and/or a non-reusable final rinse of a triple rinse, if 
the concentrations of pesticide active ingredients and priority 
pollutants in those wastewater sources have been demonstrated to be too 
low to be effectively pretreated at the facility. The Control Authority 
may waive pretreatment for these two wastewaters only if the new source 
makes the demonstrations and is in compliance with 40 CFR 403.5.

[61 FR 57552, Nov. 6, 1996]