Download or read book Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Oil and Gas Extraction Point Source Category (Us Environmental Protection Agency Regulation) (Epa) (2018 Edition) written by The Law The Law Library and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Oil and Gas Extraction Point Source Category (US Environmental Protection Agency Regulation) (EPA) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Oil and Gas Extraction Point Source Category (US Environmental Protection Agency Regulation) (EPA) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is publishing a final Clean Water Act (CWA) regulation that protects human health, the environment and the operational integrity of publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) by establishing pretreatment standards that prevent the discharge of pollutants in wastewater from onshore unconventional oil and gas (UOG) extraction facilities to POTWs. UOG extraction wastewater can be generated in large quantities and contains constituents that are potentially harmful to human health and the environment. Certain UOG extraction wastewater constituents are not typical of POTW influent wastewater and can be discharged, untreated, from the POTW to the receiving stream; can disrupt the operation of the POTW (e.g., by inhibiting biological treatment); can accumulate in biosolids (sewage sludge), limiting their beneficial use; and can facilitate the formation of harmful disinfection by-products (DBPs). Based on the information collected by EPA, the requirements of this final rule reflect current industry practices for onshore unconventional oil and gas extraction facilities. Therefore, EPA does not project that the final rule will impose any costs or lead to pollutant removals, but will ensure that current industry best practice is maintained over time. This book contains: - The complete text of the Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Oil and Gas Extraction Point Source Category (US Environmental Protection Agency Regulation) (EPA) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section