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40 CFR §61.122

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Emissions of polonium-210 to the ambient air from all calciners and nodulizing kilns at an elemental phosphorus plant shall not exceed a total of 2 curies a year; except that compliance with this standard may be conclusively shown if the elemental phosphorus plant:
  1. (a)Installs a Hydro-Sonic ® Tandem Nozzle Fixed Throat Free-Jet Scrubber System including four scrubber units,
  2. (b)All four scrubber units are operated continuously with a minimum average over any 6-hour period of 40 inches (water column) of pressure drop across each scrubber during calcining of phosphate shale,
  3. (c)The system is used to scrub emissions from all calciners and/or nodulizing kilns at the plant, and
  4. (d)Total emissions of polonium-210 from the plant do not exceed 4.5 curies per year.