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title: "40 CFR §406.17"

source: "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-40/section-406.17"

title_number: "40"

volume_number: "31"

chapter_number: "Unknown"

subchapter_code: "N"

subchapter_subject: "EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS"

part_code: "406"

part_subject: "GRAIN MILLS POINT SOURCE CATEGORY"

subpart_code: "A"

subpart_subject: "Corn Wet Milling Subcategory"

section_number: "406.17"

section_subject: "Effluent limitations guidelines representing the degree of effluent reduction attainable by the application of the best conventional pollutant control technology."

cfr_reference: "40 CFR 406.17"

title_name: "Title 40"

title_subject: "Protection of Environment"

parts_covered: "Parts 400 to 424"

revised_date: "Revised as of July 1, 2018"

publication_date: "As of July 1, 2018"

contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"

publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"

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The following limitations establish the quantity or quality of pollutants or pollutant properties, controlled by this section, which may be discharged by a point source subject to the provisions of this subpart after application of the best conventional pollutant control technology.

(a)Subject to the provisions in paragraph (b) of this section, the following limitations establish the quantity or quality of pollutants or pollutant properties, controlled by this section, which may be discharged by a point source subject to the provisions of this subpart after application of the best available technology economically achievable:

(b)The limitations given in paragraph (a) of this section for BOD5 and TSS are derived for a point source producing products standard to the corn wet milling industry. For those plants producing modified starches at a rate of at least 15 percent by dry-basis weight of total sweetener and starch products per month for 12 consecutive months, the following limitations should be used to derive an additive adjustment to the discharge allowed by paragraph (a) of this section:

Section 406.17 was suspended indefinitely at 45 FR 45582, July 7, 1980.

§406.17 - Effluent limitations guidelines representing the degree of effluent reduction attainable by the application of the best conventional pollutant control technology.