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40 CFR Table 2 to Subpart VVVV: Table 2 to Subpart VVVV—Emission Limitations for New Large Municipal Waste Combustors

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  1. Title 40—Protection of Environment
  2. CHAPTER I—ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
  3. SUBCHAPTER C—AIR PROGRAMS
  4. PART 60—STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR NEW STATIONARY SOURCES
  5. Subpart VVVV—Standards of Performance for Large Municipal Waste Combustors

For the air pollutant If your affected facility is a new large municipal waste combustor, you must meet this emission limit, corrected to 7 percent oxygen a

Particulate matter 5.1 mg/dscm.

Opacity 10 percent opacity (6-minute block average).

Cadmium 2.3 ug/dscm.

Lead 23 ug/dscm.

Mercury 32 ug/dscm or 85 percent reduction by weight.

Sulfur dioxide 14 parts per million by volume dry basis or 79 percent reduction by weight or volume (daily 24-hour geometric average).

Hydrogen chloride 7.2 parts per million by volume dry basis or 98 percent reduction by weight or volume.

Dioxins/furans 11 nanograms per dry standard cubic meter (total mass).

Nitrogen oxides 50 parts per million by volume dry basis (daily 24-hour arithmetic average).

a Measured at the combustor outlet in conjunction with a measurement of oxygen concentration. CEMS data during warmup, startup, and shutdown, as defined in this subpart, are not corrected to 7 percent oxygen, and are used as measured. The averaging times are specified in greater detail in § 60.5940.

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