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40 CFR § 461.3 - Monitoring and reporting requirements.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t40/s461.3"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "40 CFR § 461.3 - Monitoring and reporting requirements."
title_number: 40
title_name: "Protection of Environment"
section_number: "461.3"
section_name: "Monitoring and reporting requirements."
chapter_name: "ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY"
subchapter_number: "N"
subchapter_name: "EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS"
part_number: "461"
part_name: "BATTERY MANUFACTURING POINT SOURCE CATEGORY"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "Secs. 301, 304 (b), (c), (e), and (g), 306 (b) and (c), 307 (b) and (c), 308 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."
regulatory_source: "49 FR 9134, Mar. 9, 1984, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "461"
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# 461.3 Monitoring and reporting requirements.

The “monthly average” regulatory values shall be the basis for the monthly average discharge in direct discharge permits and for pretreatment standards. Compliance with the monthly discharge limit is required regardless of the number of samples analyzed and averaged.