---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 425.15"
title: "40"
number: "425.15"
heading: "Pretreatment standards for existing sources (PSES)."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/425.15"
---

# §425.15. Pretreatment standards for existing sources (PSES).

- (a) Except as provided in [§ 425.04](/cfr/40/425.04.md) and 40 CFR [403.7](/cfr/40/403.7.md) and [403.13](/cfr/40/403.13.md), any existing source subject to this subpart which introduces process wastewater pollutants into a publicly owned treatment works must comply with [40 CFR part 403](/cfr/40/part403.md), and achieve the following pretreatment standards:
- (b) Any existing source subject to this subpart which processes less than 275 hides/day shall comply with [§ 425.15(a)](#a), except that the total chromium limitations contained in [§ 425.15(a)](#a) do not apply.

## Notes

### Amendments

[47 FR 52870, Nov. 23, 1982; 48 FR 30116, June 30, 1983, as amended at 53 FR 9182, Mar. 21, 1988; 61 FR 35685, July 8, 1996]

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1311, 1314 (b), (c), (e) and (g), 1316 (b) and (c), 1317 (b) and (c), 1318 and 1361.

### Source

Source: 47 FR 52870, Nov. 23, 1982, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[47 FR 52870, Nov. 23, 1982; 48 FR 30116, June 30, 1983, as amended at 53 FR 9182, Mar. 21, 1988; 61 FR 35685, July 8, 1996]