---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 417.23"
title: "40"
number: "417.23"
heading: "Effluent limitations guidelines representing the degree of effluent reduction attainable by the application of the best available technology economically achievable."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/417.23"
---

# §417.23. Effluent limitations guidelines representing the degree of effluent reduction attainable by the application of the best available technology economically achievable.

- (a) The following limitations establish the quantity or quality of pollutants or pollutant properties, controlled by this section, which may be discharged by a point source subject to the provisions of this subpart after application of the best available technology economically achievable:
- (b) The following limitations establish the quantity or quality of pollutants or pollutant properties, controlled by this section and attributable to the hydrogenation of fatty acids, which may be discharged by a point source subject to the provisions of this subpart in addition to the discharge allowed by [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section.

## Notes

### 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.