Regulations last checked for updates: May 19, 2024

Title 40 - Protection of Environment last revised: May 16, 2024
§ 421.94 - Standards of performance for new sources.

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

Subpart I—Metallurgical Acid Plant—NSPS

Pollutant or pollutant property Maximum for any 1 day Maximum for monthly average
mg/kg (pounds per/million pounds) of 100 pct sulfuric acid capacity
Arsenic3.5501.584
Cadmium0.5110.204
Copper3.2691.558
Lead0.7150.332
Zinc2.6051.073
Fluoride 189.39050.820
Molybdenum 1[Reserved][Reserved].
Total suspended solids38.31030.650
pH( 2)( 2)

1 For Molybdenum acid plants only.

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

[50 FR 38343, Sept. 20, 1985, as amended at 55 FR 31697, Aug. 3, 1990]
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,c,e,and, 1316 (b) andc, 1317 (b) andc,1318; 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 421.94