---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 426.53"
title: "40"
number: "426.53"
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/40/426.53"
---

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


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:


## Notes

### Amendments

[39 FR 5714, Feb. 14, 1974, as amended at 44 FR 50746, Aug. 29, 1979]

### Source

Source: 39 FR 5714, Feb. 14, 1974, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

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

### Source

Source: 39 FR 2565, Jan. 22, 1974, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[39 FR 5714, Feb. 14, 1974, as amended at 44 FR 50746, Aug. 29, 1979]