[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: 40CFR460.12]

[Page 512]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 460_HOSPITAL POINT SOURCE CATEGORY--Table of Contents
 
                       Subpart A_Hospital Category
 
Sec. 460.12  Effluent limitations and 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):
    (a) The following limitations establish the quantity or quality of 
pollutants or pollutant properties, controlled by this paragraph, which 
may be discharged from the hospital point source subject to the 
provisions of this paragraph after application of the best practicable 
control technology currently available:

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                                                Effluent limitations
                                           -----------------------------
                                                        Average of daily
          Effluent characteristic             Maximum     values for 30
                                             for any 1  consecutive days
                                                day         shall not
                                                            exceed--
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                                               Metric units (kg/1,000
                                                   occupied beds)
                                           -----------------------------
BOD5......................................        41.0              33.6
TSS.......................................        55.6              33.8
pH........................................       (\1\)             (\1\)
                                           -----------------------------
                                               English units (lb/1,000
                                                   occupied beds)
                                           -----------------------------
BOD5......................................        90.4              74.0
TSS.......................................       122.4              74.5
pH........................................       (\1\)             (\1\)
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\1\ Within the range 6.0 to 9.0.


[41 FR 18777, May 6, 1976, as amended at 60 FR 33972, June 29, 1995]