---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 468.01"
title: "40"
number: "468.01"
heading: "Applicability."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/468.01"
---

# §468.01. Applicability.

- (a) The provisions of this part are applicable to discharges resulting from the manufacture of formed copper and copper alloy products. The forming operations covered are hot rolling, cold rolling, drawing, extrusion and forging. This part does not regulate the forming of precious metals. (See [40 CFR part 471](/cfr/40/part471.md)). The casting of copper and copper alloys is not covered by this part. (See [40 CFR part 464](/cfr/40/part464.md)).
- (b) The discharge allowance for drawing spent lubricant of 40 CFR [468.11(c)](/cfr/40/468.11.md?p=c), [468.14(c)](/cfr/40/468.14.md?p=c), and [468.15(c)](/cfr/40/468.15.md?p=c) are applicable only to those plants that actually discharge the drawing spent lubricant waste stream at copper forming sites. No discharge allowance is applicable or allowable where these wastewaters are hauled off-site for disposal or are otherwise not discharged at copper forming sites.

## Notes

### Amendments

[51 FR 22521, June 20, 1986]

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 301, 304 (b), (c), (e), and (g), 306 (b) and (c), 307 (b) and (c), 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) the “Act”); 33 U.S.C. 1311, 1314 (b), (c), (e), and (g), 1316 (b) and (c), 1317 (b) and (c), and 1361; 86 Stat. 816, Pub. L. 92-500; 91 Stat. 1567, Pub. L. 95-217.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 36957, Aug. 15, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[51 FR 22521, June 20, 1986]