Regulations last checked for updates: Jun 01, 2024

Title 40 - Protection of Environment last revised: May 30, 2024
§ 408.270 - Applicability; description of the steamed and canned oyster processing subcategory.

The provisions of this subpart are applicable to discharges resulting from oysters which are mechanically shucked.

§ 408.271 - Specialized definitions.

For the purpose of this subpart:

(a) Except as provided below, the general definitions, abbreviations and methods of analysis set forth in part 401 of this chapter shall apply to this subpart.

(b) The term product shall mean the weight of the oyster meat after shucking.

§ 408.272 - Effluent limitations guidelines representing the degree of effluent reduction attainable by the application of the best practicable control technology currently available.

Except as provided in §§ 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):

Effluent characteristic Effluent limitations
Maximum for any 1 day Average of daily values for 30 consecutive days shall not exceed—
Metric units (kg/kkg of product)
TSS270190
Oil and grease2.31.7
pH( 1)( 1)
English units (lb/1,000 lb of product)
TSS270190
Oil and grease2.31.7
pH( 1)( 1)

1 Within the range 6.0 to 9.0.

[40 FR 55794, Dec. 1, 1975, as amended at 60 FR 33947, June 29, 1995]
§ 408.273 - [Reserved]
§ 408.274 - Pretreatment standards for existing sources.

Any existing source subject to this subpart that introduces process wastewater pollutants into a publicly owned treatment works must comply with 40 CFR part 403. In addition, the following pretreatment standard establishes the quantity or quality of pollutants or pollutant properties controlled by this section which may be discharged to a publicly owned treatment works by a point source subject to the provisions of this subpart.

Pollutant or pollutant property Pretreatment standard
BOD5No limitation.
TSS Do.
pH Do.
Oil and grease Do.
[40 FR 55794, Dec. 1, 1975, as amended at 60 FR 33947, June 29, 1995]
§ 408.275 - Standards of performance for new sources.

Except for those steamed and canned oyster processing facilities which utilize air flotation treatment systems to meet the shrimp processing standards of performance for new sources under § 408.115, § 408.125, or § 408.135 and for which standards of performance should be derived on a case-by-case basis, the following standards of performance establish the quantity or quality of pollutants or pollutant properties, controlled by this section, which may be discharged by a new source subject to the provisions of this subpart:

Effluent characteristic Effluent limitations
Maximum for any 1 day Average of daily values for 30 consecutive days shall not exceed—
Metric units (kg/kkg of product)
BOD56717
TSS5639
Oil and grease0.840.42
pH( 1)( 1)
English units (lb/1,000 lb of product)
BOD56717
TSS5639
Oil and grease0.640.42
pH( 1)( 1)

1 Within the range 6.0 to 9.0.

[40 FR 55794, Dec. 1, 1975, as amended at 42 FR 6813, Feb. 4, 1977]
§ 408.276 - Pretreatment standards for new sources.

Any new source subject to this subpart that introduces process wastewater pollutants into a publicly owned treatment works must comply with 40 CFR part 403. In addition, the following pretreatment standard establishes the quantity or quality of pollutants or pollutant properties controlled by this section which may be discharged to a publicly owned treatment works by a new source subject to the provisions of this subpart:

Pollutant or pollutant property Pretreatment standard
BOD5No limitation.
TSS Do.
pH Do.
Oil and grease Do.
[40 FR 55794, Dec. 1, 1975, as amended at 60 FR 33947, June 29, 1995]
§ 408.277 - Effluent limitations guidelines representing the degree of effluent reduction attainable by the application of the best conventional pollutant control technology (BCT).

Except as provided in §§ 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 conventional pollutant control technology (BCT): The limitations shall be the same as those specified for conventional pollutants (which are defined in § 401.16) in § 408.272 of this subpart for the best practicable control technology currently available (BPT).

[51 FR 24997, July 9, 1986]
authority: Secs. 301, 304 (b) and (c), 306 (b) and (c), 307(c), of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended; 33 U.S.C. 1251,1311,1314,1316,1317; 86 Stat. 816
source: 39 FR 23140, June 26, 1974, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 40 CFR 408.272