{"abstract":"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is promulgating technology-based pretreatment standards under the Clean Water Act to reduce discharges of mercury from dental offices into municipal sewage treatment plants known as publicly owned treatment works (POTWs). This final rule requires dental offices to use amalgam separators and two best management practices recommended by the American Dental Association (ADA). This final rule includes a provision to significantly reduce and streamline the oversight and reporting requirements in EPA's General Pretreatment Regulations that would otherwise apply as a result of this rulemaking. EPA expects compliance with this final rule will annually reduce the discharge of mercury by 5.1 tons as well as 5.3 tons of other metals found in waste dental amalgam to POTWs.","action":"Final rule.","agencies":[{"raw_name":"ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY","name":"Environmental Protection Agency","id":145,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/environmental-protection-agency","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/145","parent_id":null,"slug":"environmental-protection-agency"}],"body_html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/html/2017/06/14/2017-12338.html","cfr_references":[{"chapter":null,"citation_url":null,"part":441,"title":40}],"citation":"82 FR 27154","comment_url":null,"comments_close_on":null,"correction_of":null,"corrections":["https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents/C1-2017-12338","https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents/C2-2017-12338"],"dates":"The final rule is effective on July 14, 2017. The compliance date, meaning the date that existing sources subject to the rule must comply with the standards in this rule is July 14, 2020. After the effective date of the rule, new sources subject to this rule must comply immediately with the standards in this rule. In accordance with 40 CFR part 23, this regulation shall be considered issued for purposes of judicial review at 1 p.m. Eastern time on June 28, 2017. Under section 509(b)(1) of the CWA, judicial review of this regulation can be had only by filing a petition for review in the U.S. Court of Appeals within 120 days after the regulation is considered issued for purposes of judicial review. Under section 509(b)(2), the requirements in this regulation may not be challenged later in civil or criminal proceedings brought by EPA to enforce these requirements.","disposition_notes":null,"docket_ids":["EPA-HQ-OW-2014-0693","FRL-9957-10-OW"],"dockets":[],"document_number":"2017-12338","effective_on":"2017-07-14","end_page":27178,"executive_order_notes":null,"executive_order_number":null,"explanation":null,"full_text_xml_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/xml/2017/06/14/2017-12338.xml","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/06/14/2017-12338/effluent-limitations-guidelines-and-standards-for-the-dental-category","images":{},"images_metadata":{},"json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents/2017-12338?publication_date=2017-06-14","mods_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/metadata/granule/FR-2017-06-14/2017-12338/mods.xml","not_received_for_publication":null,"page_length":25,"page_views":{"count":50825,"last_updated":"2026-04-26 02:15:03 -0400"},"pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2017-06-14/pdf/2017-12338.pdf","presidential_document_number":null,"proclamation_number":null,"public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2017-12338.pdf?1497280524","publication_date":"2017-06-14","raw_text_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2017/06/14/2017-12338.txt","regulation_id_number_info":{"2040-AF26":{"issue":"201610","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/regulations/2040-AF26/effluent-guidelines-and-standards-for-the-dental-point-source-category","title":"Effluent Guidelines and Standards for the Dental Point Source Category","xml_url":"http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=201610&RIN=2040-AF26&operation=OPERATION_EXPORT_XML","priority_category":"Other Significant"}},"regulation_id_numbers":["2040-AF26"],"regulations_dot_gov_info":{"supporting_documents":[{"title":"Memorandum to the Record: Vacuum Pump Efficiency Based on Impellers - DCN DA00465","document_id":"EPA-HQ-OW-2014-0693-0640"},{"title":"Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District Mercury Program for Dental Facilities - DCN DA00552","document_id":"EPA-HQ-OW-2014-0693-0637"},{"title":"Maine Department of Environmental Protection Dental Amalgam Separator Systems Law Summary - DCN DA00539","document_id":"EPA-HQ-OW-2014-0693-0631"},{"title":"Louisiana Environmental Regulatory Code Title 33 Environmental Quality Part I. 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