US EPA detailed study of the petroleum refining industry reviewing refinery wastewater discharges and the existing effluent limitations regulations for potential revision.
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1. Introduction This report summarizes information collected and analyzed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of a detailed study of the petroleum refining industry. The EPA conducted this study to review discharges from petroleum refineries and to determine whether the current wastewater discharge regulations for these operations should be revised. The EPA promulgated effluent limitations guidelines and standards (ELGs) for the Petroleum Refining Point Source Category in 1974. The ELGs were challenged in the U.S. Court of Appeals; as a result of the litigation, the EPA made revisions and finalized the ELGs on October 18, 1982.
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