Except as provided in 40 CFR 403.7, any new source subject to this subpart which introduces pollutants into a publicly owned treatment works must comply with 40 CFR part 403 and achieve the following pretreatment standards for new sources. The mass of wastewater pollutants in metallurgical acid plant blowdown introduced into a POTW shall not exceed the following values:

Subpart I—Metallurgical Acid Plant—PSNS

Open Table
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
Arsenic 3.550 1.584
Cadmium 0.511 0.204
Copper 3.269 1.558
Lead 0.715 0.332
Zinc 2.605 1.073
Fluoride1 89.390 50.820
Molybdenum1 [Reserved] [Reserved].

1For Molybdenum acid plants only.

[50 FR 38343, Sept. 20, 1985, as amended at 55 FR 31697, Aug. 3, 1990]


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