---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 417.176"
title: "40"
number: "417.176"
heading: "Pretreatment standards for new sources."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/417.176"
---

# §417.176. Pretreatment standards for new sources.


Any new source subject to this subpart that introduces process wastewater pollutants into a publicly owned treatment works must comply with [40 CFR part 403](/cfr/40/part403.md). In addition, the following pretreatment standards establishes the quantity or quality of pollutants or pollutant properties, controlled by this section, which may be discharged to a publicly owned treatment works by a new source subject to the provisions of this subpart.

- (a) There shall be no discharge of waste water streams in which both the COD/BOD7 ratio exceeds 10.0 and the COD exceeds 0.26 kg/kkg of anhydrous product.
- (b) For waste streams having either a ratio of COD to BOD7 of 10.0 or less or a COD content of 0.26 kg/kkg of anhydrous product or less the pretreatment standard shall be:

## Notes

### Amendments

[39 FR 13372, Apr. 12, 1974, as amended at 60 FR 33955, June 29, 1995]

### Authority

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

### Source

Source: 39 FR 13372, Apr. 12, 1974, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[39 FR 13372, Apr. 12, 1974, as amended at 60 FR 33955, June 29, 1995]