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CFR /  Title 40  /  Part 421  /  Sec. 421.95 Pretreatment standards for existing sources.

Except as provided in 40 CFR 403.7 and 403.13, any existing source subject to this subpart which introduces pollutants into a publicly owned treatment works must comply with 40 CFR part 403 and achieve the following pretreatment standards for existing sources. The mass of wastewater pollutants in metallurgical acid plant blowdown introduced into a POTW shall not exceed the following values:

Subpart I--Metallurgical Acid Plant--PSES------------------------------------------------------------------------

Maximum for

Pollutant or pollutant property Maximum for monthly

any 1 day average------------------------------------------------------------------------

mg/kg (pound per/million

pounds) of 100 pct

sulfuric acid capacity

--------------Cadmium....................................... 0.511 0.204Zinc.......................................... 2.605 1.073------------------------------------------------------------------------ [50 FR 38343, Sept. 20, 1985]