Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 21/09/1998

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Category Effluent Limitations Guidelines, Pretreatment Standards, and New Source Performance Standards; Final Rule

This final regulation limits the discharge of pollutants into navigable waters of the United States and into publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) by existing and new pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities. This regulation revises limitations and standards for four subcategories of the pharmaceutical manufacturing Point Source Category: Subcategory A (Fermentation), Subcategory B (Extraction), Subcategory C (Chemical Synthesis): and Subcategory D (Mixing, Compounding, and Formulating); and reformats and clarifies language without revision to certain specified provisions of these four subcategories and a fifth subcategory: Subcategory E (Research). This regulation establishes effluent limitations guidelines and standards under the Clean Water Act including ``best conventional pollutant control technology (BCT) and ``best available technology economically achievable (BAT)'' for existing direct dischargers, ``new source performance standards (NSPS)'' for new direct dischargers and pretreatment standards for existing and new indirect dischargers (PSES and PSNS). This regulation also amends and clarifies some of the limitations based on ``best practicable control technology (BPT)'' fo