TITLE 40 - PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

CHAPTER I - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

SUBCHAPTER N - EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS

PART 420 - IRON AND STEEL MANUFACTURING POINT SOURCE CATEGORY

subpart d - STEELMAKING SUBCATEGORY

420.47 - Effluent limitations guidelines representing the degree of effluent reduction attainable by the application of the best conventional pollutant control technology (BCT).

  (a) Electric arc furnace steelmakingsemi-wet. No discharge of process wastewater pollutants to navigable waters.

  (b) Basic oxygen furnace steelmakingwet-suppressed combustion.

[Reserved] (c) Basic oxygen furnace steelmakingwetopen combustion; electric arc furnace steelmakingwet. [Reserved] (d) Basic oxygen furnace steelmakingsemi-wet.

  (1) No discharge of process wastewater pollutants to navigable waters.

  (2) If the permittee demonstrates to the satisfaction of the permitting authority that safety considerations prevent attainment of these limitations, the permitting authority may establish alternative limitations on a best professional judgment basis.

[47 FR 23284, May 27, 1982, as amended at 67 FR 64268, Oct. 17, 2002]