# Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Oil and Gas Extraction Point Source Category-Implementation Date Extension
> **Rule** · Final rule. · Published 2016-12-07 · Effective 2016-12-07 · 81 FR 88126
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-29338
- **Category:** water-quality
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 88126
- **CFR reference:** 40 CFR 435
- **Publication date:** 2016-12-07
- **Effective date:** 2016-12-07
- **EPA docket:** EPA-HQ-OW-2014-0598
## Abstract

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking final action to extend the implementation deadline for certain facilities subject to the final rule establishing pretreatment standards under the Clean Water Act (CWA) for discharges of pollutants into publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) from onshore unconventional oil and gas (UOG) extraction facilities.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/12/07/2016-29338/effluent-limitations-guidelines-and-standards-for-the-oil-and-gas-extraction-point-source)
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