[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 27]
[Revised as ofJuly 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR432.101]

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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 432--MEAT PRODUCTS POINT SOURCE CATEGORY--Table of Contents
 
                     Subpart J--Renderer Subcategory
 
Sec. 432.101  Specialized definitions.

    For the purpose of this subpart:
    (a) Except as provided below, the general definitions, abbreviations 
and methods of analysis set forth in 40 CFR part 401 shall apply to this 
subpart.
    (b) The term ``renderer'' shall mean an independent or off-site 
rendering operation, conducted separate from a slaughterhouse, 
packinghouse or poultry dressing or processing plant, which manufactures 
at rates greater than 75,000 pounds of raw material per day of meat 
meal, tankage, animal fats or oils, grease, and tallow, and may cure 
cattle hides, but excluding marine oils, fish meal, and fish oils.
    (c) The term ``tankage'' shall mean dried animal by-product residues 
used in feedstuffs.
    (d) The term ``tallow'' shall mean a product made from beef cattle 
or sheep fat that has a melting point of 40 [deg]C or greater.
    (e) The term ``raw material'' or as abbreviated herein, ``RM'', 
shall mean the basic input materials to a renderer composed of animal 
and poultry trimmings, bones, meat scraps, dead animals, feathers and 
related usable by-products.

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