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40 CFR § 463.30 - Applicability; description of the finishing water subcategory.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t40/s463.30"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "40 CFR § 463.30 - Applicability; description of the finishing water subcategory."
title_number: 40
title_name: "Protection of Environment"
section_number: "463.30"
section_name: "Applicability; description of the finishing water subcategory."
chapter_name: "ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY"
subchapter_number: "N"
subchapter_name: "EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS"
part_number: "463"
part_name: "PLASTICS MOLDING AND FORMING POINT SOURCE CATEGORY"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "Secs. 301, 304 (b), (c), (e), and (g), 306 (b) and (c), 307, 308, and 501, Clean Water Act (Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, as amended by 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), 1318, and 1361; 86 Stat. 816, Pub. L. 92-500; 91 Stat. 1567, Pub. L. 95-217."
regulatory_source: "49 FR 49047, Dec. 17, 1984, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "463"
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# 463.30 Applicability; description of the finishing water subcategory.

This subpart applies to discharges of pollutants from processes in the finishing water subcategory to waters of the United States and the introduction of such pollutants into publicly owned treatment works. Processes in the finishing water subcategory are processes where water comes in contact with the plastic product during finishing.