diff --git a/Trigger/TriggerCommon/TriggerJobOpts/share/runHLT_standalone.py b/Trigger/TriggerCommon/TriggerJobOpts/share/runHLT_standalone.py
index ba04783d7f8be88c7a3a2e109f9d25280ccafac8..67b24ec53b0123238d9ad714f2302e456498b038 100644
--- a/Trigger/TriggerCommon/TriggerJobOpts/share/runHLT_standalone.py
+++ b/Trigger/TriggerCommon/TriggerJobOpts/share/runHLT_standalone.py
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ class opt:
     enabledSignatures = []
     disabledSignatures = []
     selectChains      = []
+    disableChains     = []
 
 
 #
@@ -508,6 +509,8 @@ if not opt.createHLTMenuExternally:
 
     if (opt.selectChains):
         menu.selectChainsForTesting = opt.selectChains
+    elif (opt.disableChains):
+        menu.disableChains = opt.disableChains
 
     # generating the HLT structure requires
     # the HLTSeeding to be defined in the topSequence
diff --git a/Trigger/TriggerCommon/TriggerMenuMT/python/HLTMenuConfig/Menu/GenerateMenuMT.py b/Trigger/TriggerCommon/TriggerMenuMT/python/HLTMenuConfig/Menu/GenerateMenuMT.py
index 7387a2487f987f56c2c210c7ba52d1af7a8ebd71..6f9bc3ca904f91769fe2825fdfcee097d0559f08 100755
--- a/Trigger/TriggerCommon/TriggerMenuMT/python/HLTMenuConfig/Menu/GenerateMenuMT.py
+++ b/Trigger/TriggerCommon/TriggerMenuMT/python/HLTMenuConfig/Menu/GenerateMenuMT.py
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ class GenerateMenuMT(object, metaclass=Singleton):
         self.chainsInMenu = []
         self.listOfErrorChainDefs = []
         self.selectChainsForTesting = []
+        self.disableChains = []
         
         self.allChainsForAlignment = []
         self.chainDicts = []
@@ -359,6 +360,18 @@ class GenerateMenuMT(object, metaclass=Singleton):
                 raise Exception("[getChainsFromMenu] Cannot test one or more requested chains, exiting.")
             chains = selectedChains
 
+        if self.disableChains:
+            if self.selectChainsForTesting:
+                log.error("Either select chains or disable chains, not both. Will not proceed.")
+                raise Exception("[getChainsFromMenu] Both selectChains and disableChains options provided -- potential conflict!")
+            log.info("Eliminating chains from the menu")
+            chainNames = [ch.name for ch in chains]
+            missingNames = [ch for ch in self.disableChains if ch not in chainNames]
+            if missingNames:
+                log.warning("The following chains were specified in disableChains but were not found in the menu: %s", str(missingNames))
+            selectedChains = [ch for ch in chains if ch.name not in self.disableChains]
+            chains = selectedChains
+
         if len(chains) == 0:
             log.warning("There seem to be no chains in the menu - please check")
         else: