Effluent Guidelines

Coal Mining Effluent Guidelines Documents Related to 1979 Amendment

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Final Rule (Amended definition of "new source coal mine") (PDF)(3 pp, 417 K, June 27, 1980, 45 FR 43413)
Final Rule (Precipitation Exemption) (PDF)(6 pp, 883 K, December 28, 1979, 44 FR 76788)
Final Rule (Clarifying amendment--catastrophic rainfall exemption) (PDF)(2 pp, 281 K, April 2, 1979, 44 FR 19193)
Original Final Rule (NSPS) and PSES withdrawal (PDF)(7 pp, 1 MB, January 12, 1979, 44 FR 2586)
Proposed Rule (NSPS) (PDF)(7 pp, 1 MB, September 19, 1977, 42 FR 46932)
Proposed Rule (PSES) (PDF)(2 pp, 323 K, October 17, 1975, 40 FR 48839)