40 CFR § 437.13 - Effluent limitations attainable by the application of the best available technology economically achievable (BAT).
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t40/s437.13"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "40 CFR § 437.13 - Effluent limitations attainable by the application of the best available technology economically achievable (BAT)."
title_number: 40
title_name: "Protection of Environment"
section_number: "437.13"
section_name: "Effluent limitations attainable by the application of the best available technology economically achievable (BAT)."
chapter_name: "ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY"
subchapter_number: "N"
subchapter_name: "EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS"
part_number: "437"
part_name: "THE CENTRALIZED WASTE TREATMENT POINT SOURCE CATEGORY"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "33 U.S.C. 1311, 1314, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1342, and 1361."
regulatory_source: "65 FR 81300, Dec. 22, 2000, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "437"
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# 437.13 Effluent limitations attainable by the application of the best available technology economically achievable (BAT).
(a) Except as provided in 40 CFR 125.30 through 125.32 or § 437.10(b), any existing point source subject to this subpart must achieve the following effluent limitations representing the application of BAT: Limitations for antimony, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, silver, tin, titanium, vanadium, and zinc are the same as the corresponding limitation specified in § 437.11(a).
(b) In-plant standards for cyanide are the same as the limitations specified in § 437.11(b).
[65 FR 81300, Dec. 22, 2000, as amended at 68 FR 71023, Dec. 22, 2003]