Timber Products Processing Effluent Guidelines
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RULES AND REGULATIONS Title 40-Protection of the Environment Both of these documents were made (3) Commenters said that the disposal CHAPTER I-ENVIRONMENTAL available to the public and circulated to of process waste water into a log pond or PROTECTION AGENCY interested persons at approximately the mill pond, If available would be a practi- time of publication of the notice of pro- cal method of control. SUBCHAPTER N-EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS posed rulemaking. The regulations promulgated here ex- nterested persons were invited to par-.. clude those facilities that include wet PART 429-TIMBER PRODUCTS PROC- ticipate in the rulemaking by submitting storage and/or handling or part of this ESSING POINT SOURCE CATEGORY written comments within 30 days from normal operating practice. Further data On January 3, 1974, notice was pub- the date of publication. Prior public par- is being developed, and guidelines and lished in the FEDERAL REGISTER (39 FR ticipation in the form of solicited com- standards for these facilities will be es- 938), that the Environmental Protection ments and responses from the States, tablished at a later date. For wet storage Agency (EPA or Agency) was proposing Federal agencies, and other interested facilities the disposal of process waste effluent limitations guidelines for exist- parties were described in the preamble water into a log pond or mill pond Is one ing sources and standards of perform- to the proposed regulation. The EPA has method of control. It should be noted that ance and pretreatment standards for considered carefully all of the comments the Development Document provides In- new sources within the barking, veneer, received and a discussion of these com- formation to show that with reasonable plywood, hardboard-dry process, hard- ments with the Agency's response there- unit op:eration and process management board-wet process, wood preserving, to follows, individual unit operations within the wood preserving-steam and wood pre- (a) Summary of comments. manufacturing process can eliminate the serving-boultonizing subcategories of the The following responded to the request discharge of pollutants, whereas the dis- timber products processing category of for written comments contained in the charge of pollutants to a pond may result point sources. preamble to the proposed regulation: in discharge to navigable waters. The purpose of this notice is to es- EPA, Region X; EPA, Region VIII; U.S. (4) A commenter indicated that It has tablish final effluent limitations guide- Water Resources Council; L. D. McFar- never been substantiated that log con- lines for existing sources and standards land Company; American Plywood Asso- ditioning, veneer dryer washdown and of performance and pretreatment stand- ciation; National Forest Products Asso- glue equipment clean-up can take place ards for new sources in the timber ciation; Koppers Company, Inc.; Amer- with no discharge of waste water or products processing category of point ican Hardboard Association; State of sludge. sources, by amending 40 CFR Chapter I, New York Department of Environmental Chapter VII of the Development Doc- Subchapter N, to add a new Part 429. Conservation; Abitibi Corporation, ument discusses procedures for log con- This final rulemaking is promulgated Roaring River, North Carolina; Weyer- ditioning such as indirect steaming, hot pursuant to sections 301, 304 (b) and (c), haeuser Company; American Wood Pre- water' spray systems, and modified 306 (b) and (c) and 307(c) of the Fed- servers Association; Society of American steaming. Water requirements for the eral Water Pollution Control Act, as Wood Preservers; Maine Department of cleaning of veneer dryers can be reduced amended, (the Act); 33 U.S.C. 1251, 1311, Environmental Protection; U.S. Ply- significantly by manual preliminary 1314 (b) and (c), 1316 (b) and (c) and wood; U.S. Department of Commerce; cleaning and the use of air to remove a 1317(c); 86 Stat. 816 et seq.; Pub. L. 92- Washington State Department of Ecol- major part of the waste material. About 500. Regulations regarding cooling water ogy and the U.S. Department of the In- sixty percent of the plants visited during intake structures for all categories of terior. Each of the comments received the development of guidelines and stand- point sources under section 316(b) of the was carefully reviewed and analyzed. The ards have implemented practices that Act will be promulgated in 40 CFR 402. following is a summary of the significant eliminate the discharge of pollutants. In addition, the EPA is simultaneously comments and the Agency's response to (5) A-commenter Indicated that recom- proposing a separate provision which ap- those comments, mended control technologies of irrpia- pears in the proposed rules section of the (1) One commenter indicated that. tion, containment, or disposal in a bark FEDERAL REGISTER, stating the applica- new source performance standards incinerator are not the same as zero dis- tion of the limitations and standards set should be no discharge of waste water charge and seem to indicate that tech- forth below to users of publicly owned pollutants for the barking subcategory. nology does not exist to achieve zero treatment works which are subject to New Source Performance Standards discharge from these operations. pretreatment standards under section are to be based on the "best available The objective of the Act is eliminate 307(b) of the Act. The basis of that pro- demonstrated control technology, proc- the discharge of pollutants to navigable posed regulation is set forth in the as- esses, operating methods, or other alter- water if it is achievable under the con- sociated notice of proposed rulemaking. natives." The accomplishment of no dis- straints of BPCTCA, BATEA and/or The legal basis, methodology and fac- charge from this operation has not been NSPS. The suggested control techniques tual conclusions which support pron ul- adequately demonstrated. While at least do eliminate the discharge of pollutants gation of this regulation were set forth one hydraulic barking operation has to navigable waters from specified proc- in substantial detail in the notice of pub- achieved almost complete recycle of ess waste water flows; even though lic review procedures published August process water, the system has not been waste waters are not recycled and must 6, 1973 (38 FR 21202) and in the notice of in operation long enough to exhibit the, be disposed of, these techniques do elim- proposed rulemaking for the barking, reliability necessary to fulfill the Act's inate discharges to the navigable waters, veneer, plywood, hardboard-dry process, requirements. (6) A commenter indicated that "no hardboard-wet process, wood preserving, (2) Two commenters indicated that discharge of waste water pollutants" in wood preserving-steam and wood pre- the State of Washington is implementing some subcategories may be based on re- serving-boultonizing subcategories. In state regulations that result in a more quirements of land which is not available addition, the regulations as proposed stringent allowable discharge for by- to many plants. were supported by two other documents: draulic braking operations than pre- In all cases where "no discharge" is (1) The document entitled "Develop- sented here. specified, the supporting Development ment Document for Proposed Effluent The limitations presented here are Document in Section V presents data Limitations Guidelines and New Source based on a raw waste effluent of about showing that the volumes of waste water Performance Standards for the Plywood, 100 mg/1 BOD5, whereas biological treat- or sludge either can be eliminated or the Hardboard, and Wood Preserving Seg- ment in the State of Washington is usu- amount required to be disposed of is ment of the Timber Products Processing ally applied to higher concentration minor (less than 1000 gallons per week). Point Source Category" (December 1973) waste waters because of the proximity of A variety of opportunities for disposal and (2) the document entitled "Edo- other waste water generators, e.g., pulp exist. Among these are: Disposal In the nomcl Analysis of Proposed Effluent and paper mills, with higher waste con- hog fuel burner; incorporation into the centrations. Because biological treatment product; and/or recycling; evaporation, Guidelines, Timber Products Processing is at least partially concentration de- percolation; and disposal In approved Industry (Hardboard, Wood Preserving, pendent, removal efficiency is higher at landfill facilities, either by the permitteo Plywood and Veneer)" (August 1973). higher influent concetitrations. or by contract service. FEDERAL REGISTER, VOL 39, NO. 76-THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1974 RULES AND REGULATIONS- 13943 £7) One comment stated that fire del- (11) Commenters espressed concern termine the procedures available to re- uge water should be excluded from the that the economic. impact study did not duce the generation of waste water It regulation presented-for the veneer man- consider the costa Involved in control- was determined that for some subcate- .ufacturingsubcategory. ling pollutant discharge from, log han- goriea best practicable control technol- Fires are a fairly frequent occurrence dling and storage operations. oz y beA available technology and/or in the veneer drying operation and they The regulations promulgated here ex- new source performance standards are, of course, unscheduled. The Agency clude those facilities that include wet were no discharge of waste-water