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Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Dental Category

water-quality · Rule · Published 2017-06-14 · Effective 2017-07-14 · 82 FR 27154

Document

Document number
2017-12338
Federal Register citation
82 FR 27154
CFR reference
40 CFR 441
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule.
Category
water-quality
Publication date
2017-06-14
Effective date
2017-07-14
EPA docket
EPA-HQ-OW-2014-0693

Abstract

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is promulgating technology-based pretreatment standards under the Clean Water Act to reduce discharges of mercury from dental offices into municipal sewage treatment plants known as publicly owned treatment works (POTWs). This final rule requires dental offices to use amalgam separators and two best management practices recommended by the American Dental Association (ADA). This final rule includes a provision to significantly reduce and streamline the oversight and reporting requirements in EPA's General Pretreatment Regulations that would otherwise apply as a result of this rulemaking. EPA expects compliance with this final rule will annually reduce the discharge of mercury by 5.1 tons as well as 5.3 tons of other metals found in waste dental amalgam to POTWs.

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