Water and Wastewater Terms Beginning C

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categorical standards

Industrial waste discharge standards (limits) developed by the EPA that are applied to the effluent from any industry in any category anywhere in the United States that discharges to a publicly owned treatment works (POTW). These are standards based on the technology available to treat the wastestreams from the processes of the specific industrial category and normally are measured at the point of discharge from the regulated process. The standards are listed in the Code of Federal Regulations.