---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 421.330"
title: "40"
number: "421.330"
heading: "Applicability: Description of the primary zirconium and hafnium subcategory."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/421.330"
---

# §421.330. Applicability: Description of the primary zirconium and hafnium subcategory.


The provisions of this subpart are applicable to discharges resulting from the production of zirconium or hafnium at primary zirconium and hafnium facilities. There are two levels of BPT, BAT, NSPS, PSES and PSNS provisions for this subpart. Facilities which only produce zirconium or zirconium/nickel alloys by magnesium reduction of zirconium dioxide are exempt from regulations. All other facilities are subject to these regulations.


## Notes

### Source

Source: 50 FR 38395, Sept. 20, 1985, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 301, 304 (b), (c), (e), and (g), 306 (b) and (c), 307 (b) and (c), 308 and 501 of the Clean Water Act (the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, as amended by the Clean Water Act of 1977) and the Water Quality Act of 1987 (the “Act”); 33 U.S.C. 1311, 1314 (b), (c), (e), and (g), 1316 (b) and (c), 1317 (b) and (c), 1318 and 1361; 86 Stat. 816, Pub. L. 92-500; 91 Stat. 1567, Pub. L. 95-217; 101 Stat. 7, Pub. L. 100-4.

### Source

Source: 49 FR 8790, Mar. 8, 1984, unless otherwise noted.