Fertilizer Manufacturing Effluent Guidelines Documents

Documents pertaining to Fertilizer Manufacturing Effluent Guidelines (40 CFR Part 418)

• Amendments
• Initial Rulemaking
  • 1975 rule: Subparts F-G
  • 1974 rule: Subparts A-E

• Best Conventional Pollutant Control Technology; Effluent Limitations Guidelines; Final rule (pdf) (3.35 MB, July 9, 1986, 51 FR 24974)
  Revised BCT methodology and effluent limitations pursuant to litigation
• Best Conventional Pollutant Control Technology; Effluent Limitations Guidelines; Proposed rule (pdf) (2.86 MB, October 29, 1982, 47 FR 49176)
• Best Conventional Pollutant Control Technology; Reasonableness of Existing Effluent Limitation Guidelines; Final rule (pdf) (3.4 MB, August 29, 1979, 44 FR 50732)
  Initial BCT methodology and effluent limitations; later revised after litigation. See July 9, 1986 final rule.
• Best Conventional Pollutant Control Technology; Reasonableness of Existing Effluent Limitation Guidelines; Proposed rule (pdf) (3.7 MB, August 23, 1978, 43 FR 37570)
• Fertilizer Manufacturing Effluent Guidelines - Final Rule (pdf) (599.11 KB, January 14, 1975, 40 FR 2650)
• Development Document for Effluent Limitations Guidelines and New Source Performance Standards for the Formulated Fertilizer Segment of the Fertilizer Manufacturing Point Source Category (pdf) (2.36 MB, January 1975, 440/1-75/042a)
  Industry description, wastewater characterization, treatment technologies, regulatory compliance cost estimates and pollutant loadings for the final rule
• Fertilizer Manufacturing Effluent Guidelines - Proposed Rule (pdf) (1.02 MB, October 7, 1974, 39 FR 36094)
• Fertilizer Manufacturing Effluent Guidelines - Final Rule (pdf) (1.59 MB, April 8, 1974, 39 FR 12832)
• Development Document for Effluent Limitations Guidelines and New Source Performance Standards for the Basic Fertilizer Chemicals Segment of the Fertilizer Manufacturing Point Source Category (pdf) (5.44 MB, March 1974, 440/1-74/011a)
  Industry description, wastewater characterization, treatment technologies, regulatory compliance cost estimates and pollutant loadings for the final rule
• Fertilizer Manufacturing Effluent Guidelines - Proposed Rule (pdf) (1.48 MB, December 7, 1973, 38 FR 33852)