Regulations last checked for updates: May 18, 2024

Title 40 - Protection of Environment last revised: May 16, 2024
§ 415.225 - New source performance standards (NSPS).

(a) Any new source subject to this subpart producing titanium dioxide by the sulfate process must achieve the following new source performance standards (NSPS):

Subpart V—Titanium Dioxide-Sulfate Process

Pollutant or pollutant property NSPS effluent limitations
Maximum for any 1 day Average of daily values for 30 consecutive days
Kg/kkg (or pounds per 1,000 lb) of product
TSS11030
Iron (T)4.11.2
Chromium (T)0.270.14
Nickel (T)0.180.095
pH( 1)( 1)

1 Within the range 6.0 to 9.0.

(b) Any new source subject to this subpart producing titanium dioxide by the chloride process must achieve the following new source performance standards (NSPS):

Subpart V—Titanium Dioxide-Chloride Process

Pollutant or pollutant property NSPS effluent limitations
Maximum for any 1 day Average of daily values for 30 consecutive days
Kg/kkg (or pounds per 1,000 lb) of product
TSS144.0
Iron (T)0.520.16
Chromium (T)0.0230.012
ph( 1)( 1)

1 Within the range 6.0 to 9.0.

(c) Any new source subject to this subpart producing titanium dioxide by the simultaneous beneficiation-chlorination (chloride-ilmenite) process must achieve the following new source performance standards (NSPS):

Subpart V—Titanium Dioxide-Chloride-Ilmenite Process

Pollutant or pollutant property NSPS effluent limitations
Maximum for any 1 day Average of daily values for 30 consecutive days
Kg/kkg (or pounds per 1,000 lb) of product
TSS8.42.4
Iron (T)0.320.096
Chromium (T)0.0140.0072
Nickel (T)0.0200.010
pH( 1)( 1)

1 Within the range 6.0 to 9.0.

authority: Secs. 301, 304 (b), (c), (e), and (g), 306 (b) and (c), 307 (b) and (c), 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) (the “Act”); 33 U.S.C. 1311,1314,c,e,and, 1316 (b) andc, 1317 (b) andc,and; 86 Stat. 816, Pub. L. 92-500; 91 Stat. 1567, Pub. L. 95-217
source: 47 FR 28278, June 29, 1982, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 40 CFR 415.225