Regulations last checked for updates: Nov 24, 2024
Title 40 - Protection of Environment last revised: Nov 21, 2024
§ 408.160 - Applicability; description of the Alaskan hand-butchered salmon processing subcategory.
The provisions of this subpart are applicable to discharges resulting from the hand-butchering of salmon in Alaska.
§ 408.161 - Specialized definitions.
For the purpose of this subpart:
(a) Except as provided below, the general definitions, abbreviations and methods of analysis set forth in part 401 of this chapter shall apply to this subpart.
(b) The term seafood shall mean the raw material, including freshwater and saltwater fish and shellfish, to be processed, in the form in which it is received at the processing plant.
§ 408.162 - Effluent limitations guidelines representing the degree of effluent reduction attainable by the application of the best practicable control technology currently available.
Except as provided in §§ 125.30 through 125.32, any existing point source subject to this subpart shall achieve the following effluent limitations representing the degree of effluent reduction attainable by the application of the best practicable control technology currently available (BPT):
(a) Any hand-butchered salmon processing facility located in population or processing centers including but not limited to Anchorage, Cordova, Juneau, Ketchikan, Kodiak, and Petersburg shall meet the following limitations:
| Effluent characteristic
| Effluent limitations
|
|---|
| Maximum for any 1 day
| Average of daily values for 30 consecutive days shall not exceed—
|
|---|
| Metric units (kilograms per 1,000 kg of seafood)
|
| TSS | 2.6 | 1.6
|
| Oil and grease | 0.31 | 0.19
|
| pH | (
1) | (
1)
|
| English units (pounds per 1,000 lb of seafood)
|
| TSS | 2.6 | 1.6
|
| Oil and grease | 0.31 | 0.19
|
| pH | (
1) | (
1)
|
(b) Any hand-butchered salmon processing facility not covered under § 408.162(a) shall meet the following limitations: No pollutants may be discharged which exceed 1.27 cm (0.5 inch) in any dimension.
[40 FR 55782, Dec. 1, 1975, as amended at 41 FR 31821, July 30, 1976; 60 FR 33944, June 29, 1995]
§ 408.163 - [Reserved]
§ 408.164 - Pretreatment standards for existing sources.
Any existing source subject to this subpart that introduces process wastewater pollutants into a publicly owned treatment works must comply with 40 CFR part 403. In addition, the following pretreatment standard establishes the quantity or quality of pollutants or pollutant properties controlled by this section which may be discharged to a publicly owned treatment works by a point source subject to the provisions of this subpart.
| Pollutant or pollutant property
| Pretreatment standard
|
|---|
| BOD5 | No limitation.
|
| TSS | Do.
|
| pH | Do.
|
| Oil and grease | Do. |
§ 408.165 - Standards of performance for new sources.
(a) 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:
(1) Any hand-butchered salmon processing facility located in population or processing centers including but not limited to Anchorage, Cordova, Juneau, Ketchikan, Kodiak, and Petersburg shall meet the following limitations:
| Effluent characteristic
| Effluent limitations
|
|---|
| Maximum for any 1 day
| Average of daily values for 30 consecutive days shall not exceed—
|
|---|
| Metric units (kilograms per 1,000 kg of seafood)
|
| TSS | 2.3 | 1.4
|
| Oil and grease | 0.28 | 0.17
|
| pH | (
1) | (
1)
|
| English units (pounds per 1,000 lb of seafood)
|
| TSS | 2.3 | 1.4
|
| Oil and grease | 0.28 | 0.17
|
| pH | (
1) | (
1)
|
(2) Any hand-butchered salmon processing facility not covered under § 408.165(a)(1) shall meet the following limitations: No pollutants may be discharged which exceed 1.27 cm (0.5 inch) in any dimension.
(b) [Reserved]
[40 FR 55782, Dec. 1, 1975, as amended at 41 FR 31821, July 30, 1976]
§ 408.166 - Pretreatment standards for new sources.
Any new source subject to this subpart that introduces process wastewater pollutants into a publicly owned treatment works must comply with 40 CFR part 403. In addition, the following pretreatment standard establishes the quantity or quality of pollutants or pollutant properties controlled by this section which may be discharged to a publicly owned treatment works by a new source subject to the provisions of this subpart:
| Pollutant or pollutant property
| Pretreatment standard
|
|---|
| BOD5 | No limitation.
|
| TSS | Do.
|
| pH | Do.
|
| Oil and grease | Do. |
§ 408.167 - Effluent limitations guidelines representing the degree of effluent reduction attainable by the application of the best conventional pollutant control technology.
(a) [Reserved]
(b) Except as provided in §§ 125.30 through 125.32, any hand-butchered salmon processing facility located in population or processing centers including but not limited to Anchorage, Cordova, Juneau, Ketchikan, Kodiak, and Petersburg shall achieve the following effluent limitations representing the degree of effluent reduction attainable by the application of the best conventional pollutant control technology (BCT): The limitations shall be the same as those specified for conventional pollutants (which are defined in § 401.16) in § 408.162(b)(2) of this subpart for the best practicable control technology currently available (BPT).
[51 FR 24998, July 9, 1986]
authority: Secs. 301, 304 (b) and (c), 306 (b) and (c), 307(c), of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended;
33 U.S.C. 1251,
1311,
1314,
1316,
1317; 86 Stat. 816
source: 39 FR 23140, June 26, 1974, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 40 CFR 408.160