Regulations last checked for updates: May 10, 2024

Title 40 - Protection of Environment last revised: Jun 26, 2024
§ 426.55 - Standards of performance for new sources.

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 (g/kkg of product)
TSS0.700.70
Oil1.401 .40
Phosphorus0.05.05
pH( 1)( 1)
English units (lb/ton of product)
TSS0.00140.0014
Oil0.0028.0028
Phosphorus0.0001.0001
pH( 1)( 1)

1 Within the range 6.0 to 9.0.

authority: Secs. 301, 304 (b) and (c), 306 (b) and (c), 307(c), and 316(b) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended; 33 U.S.C. 1251,1311,1314,1316,1317; 86 Stat. 816
source: 39 FR 2565, Jan. 22, 1974, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 40 CFR 426.55