1. Regulations
  2. title 40
  3. chapter I-i30
  4. part 421
  5. subpart E
  6. § 421.54

View all text of Subpart E [§ 421.50 - § 421.57]

§ 421.54 - Standards of performance for new sources.

Any new source subject to this subpart shall achieve the following new source performance standards:

(a) Subpart E—Casting Contact Cooling.

NSPS

Pollutant or pollutant property Maximum for any 1 day Maximum for monthly average mg/kg (pounds per million pounds) of copper cast Arsenic.692.309 Copper.638.304 Nickel.274.184 Total suspended solids7.4705.976 pH( 1)( 1)

1 Within the range of 7.5 to 10.0 at all times.

(b) Subpart E—Anode and Cathode Rinse.

NSPS

Pollutant or pollutant property Maximum for any 1 day Maximum for monthly average mg/kg (pounds per million pounds) of cathode copper production Arsenic.000.000 Copper.000.000 Nickel.000.000 Total suspended solids.000.000 pH( 1)( 1)

1 Within the range of 7.5 to 10.0 at all times.

(c) Subpart E—Spent Electrolyte.

NSPS

Pollutant or pollutant property Maximum for any 1 day Maximum for monthly average mg/kg (pounds per million pounds) of copper cathode production Arsenic.068.031 Copper.063.030 Nickel.027.018 Total suspended solids.735.588 pH( 1)( 1)

1 Within the range 7.5 to 10.0 at all times.

(d) Subpart E—Casting Wet Air Pollution Control.

NSPS

Pollutant or pollutant property Maximum for any 1 day Maximum for monthly average mg/kg (pounds per million pounds) of casting production Arsenic.000.000 Copper.000.000 Nickel.000.000 Total suspended solids.000.000 pH( 1)( 1)

1 Within the range of 7.5 to 10.0 at all times.

(e) Subpart E—By-Product Recovery.

NSPS

Pollutant or pollutant property Maximum for any 1 day Maximum for monthly average mg/kg (pounds per million pounds) of product recovered from electrolytic slimes processing Arsenic.000.000 Copper.000.000 Nickel.000.000 Total suspended solids.000.000 pH( 1)( 1)

1 Within the range of 7.5 to 10.0 at all times.

[49 FR 8801, Mar. 8, 1984, as amended at 49 FR 29795, July 24, 1984]

AUTHORITY: Secs. 301, 304 (b), (c), (e), and (g), 306 (b) and (c), 307 (b) and (c), 308 and 501 of the Clean Water Act (the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, as amended by the Clean Water Act of 1977) and the Water Quality Act of 1987 (the “Act”); 33 U.S.C. 1311, 1314 (b), (c), (e), and (g), 1316 (b) and (c), 1317 (b) and (c), 1318 and 1361; 86 Stat. 816, Pub. L. 92-500; 91 Stat. 1567, Pub. L. 95-217; 101 Stat. 7, Pub. L. 100-4.

SOURCE: 49 FR 8790, Mar. 8, 1984, unless otherwise noted.

CITE AS: 40 CFR 421.54