Regulations last checked for updates: Jan 30, 2025

Title 40 - Protection of Environment last revised: Nov 08, 2025
Appendix -
For the following municipal waste combustion units You must meet the following carbon monoxide limits a Using the following averaging times b
1. Fluidized bed100 parts per million by dry volume4-hour.
2. Fluidized bed, mixed fuel, (wood/refuse-derived fuel)200 parts per million by dry volume24-hour c.
3. Mass burn rotary refractory100 parts per million by dry volume4-hour.
4. Mass burn rotary waterwall250 parts per million by dry volume24-hour.
5. Mass burn waterwall and refractory100 parts per million by dry volume4-hour.
6. Mixed fuel-fired, (pulverized coal/refuse-derived fuel)150 parts per million by dry volume4-hour.
7. Modular starved-air and excess air50 parts per million by dry volume4-hour.
8. Spreader stoker, mixed fuel-fired (coal/refuse-derived fuel)200 parts per million by dry volume24-hour daily.
9. Stoker, refuse-derived fuel200 parts per million by dry volume24-hour daily.

a All emission limits (except for opacity) are measured at 7 percent oxygen. Compliance is determined by continuous emission monitoring systems.

b Block averages, arithmetic mean. See § 60.1940 for definitions.

c 24-hour block average, geometric mean.

authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401
source: 36 FR 24877, Dec. 23, 1971, unless otherwise noted.