06-096 C.M.R. ch. 584, § 5
The following assumptions have been used to determine the statewide criteria contained in Appendix A of this rule.
NOTE: Persons may request that the Department express criteria for metals as the dissolved form by submitting the appropriate information to allow recalculation of relative toxicity using conversion factors and translator procedures published by EPA: "The Metals Translator: Guidance for Calculating a Total Recoverable Permit Limit from a Dissolved Criterion", EPA 823-B-96-007, USEPA, Office of Water, Washington, DC, June 1996.
NOTE: These characteristics, however, may vary depending on the location of the discharge. The relative criteria for a pollutant subject to these considerations may be recalculated in any given licensing proceeding using the actual local ambient physical water characteristics. See Chapter 530.
In waters subject to a designated use of sustenance fishing, human health criteria will be determined assuming consumption of 2.4 Liters of water by a person weighing 80 kg, and a fish consumption rate of 200 grams per day, except for those parameters that did not change with EPA's criteria recommendations referenced in EPA 820-F-15-001 for which the human health criteria will be determined assuming consumption of 2 Liters of water by a person weighing 70 kg, a fish consumption rate of 200 grams per day, and a cancer risk level of one in 1,000,000 (except for the cancer risk level for inorganic arsenic, which is governed by 38 M.R.S. §420(2)(J) ). Waters subject to a designated use of sustenance fishing are specified under 38 M.R.S. §465-A(1)(D), 38 M.R.S. §467(7)(A)(B)(D) 38 M.R.S. §467(13), 38 M.R.S. §467(15)(C), 38 M.R.S. §467(15)(A)(E)(F) 38 M.R.S. §468(8), 38 M.R.S. §469(7).
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