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Clean Water Act Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Meat and Poultry Products Point Source Category

Federal Register · last updated
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (the EPA or Agency) is withdrawing the proposed rule entitled “Clean Water Act Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Meat and Poultry Products Point Source Category,” which published in the Federal Register on January 23, 2024. After considering public comments on the proposed rule, the EPA has decided not to finalize revised technology- based effluent limitations guidelines (ELGs) or pretreatment standards for the Meat and Poultry Products (MPP) industry, based on exercise of its statutory discretion and judgment that such revisions would not be appropriate.