---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 409.15"
title: "40"
number: "409.15"
heading: "Standards of performance for new sources."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/409.15"
---

# §409.15. Standards of performance for new sources.


The following standards of performance establish the quantity or quality of pollutants or pollutant properties which may be discharged by a point source subject to the provisions of this subpart: There shall be no discharge of process waste water pollutants to navigable waters.


## Notes

### Source

Source: 39 FR 4037, Jan. 31, 1974, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 301, 304 (b) and (c), 306 (b) and (c), 307 (c) and (d), and 316(b) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended; 33 U.S.C. 1251, 1311, 1314 (b) and (c), 1316 (b) and (c), 1317(c), and 1326(c); 86 Stat. 816 et seq., Pub. L. 92-500; 91 Stat. 1567, Pub. L. 95-217.