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CFR /  Title 40  /  Part 418  /  Sec. 418.55 Standards of performance for new sources.

The following standards of performance establish the quantity or quality of pollutants or pollutant properties which may be discharged by a new source subject to the provisions of this subpart:

(a) The following limitations establish the quantity or quality of pollutants which may be discharged in process waste water from nitric acid production in which all the raw material ammonia is in the gaseous form: [Metric units, kg/kkg of product; English units, lb/1,000 lb of product]------------------------------------------------------------------------

Effluent limitations

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Average of daily

Effluent characteristic Maximum values for 30

for any 1 consecutive days

day shall not

exceed--------------------------------------------------------------------------Ammonia (as N)............................ 0.0045 0.00045Nitrate (as N)............................ 0.17 0.023------------------------------------------------------------------------

(b) The following limitations establish the quantity or quality of pollutants which may be discharged in process waste water from nitric acid production in which all the raw material ammonia is in the shipped liquid form: [Metric units, kg/kkg of product; English units, lb/1,000 lb of product]------------------------------------------------------------------------

Effluent limitations

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Average of daily

Effluent characteristic Maximum values for 30

for any 1 consecutive days

day shall not

exceed--------------------------------------------------------------------------Ammonia (as N)............................ 0.08 0.008Nitrate (as N)............................ 0.17 0.023------------------------------------------------------------------------ [41 FR 2387, Jan. 16, 1976, as amended at 42 FR 16141, Mar. 25, 1977]