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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALP000408

ASCEND PERFORMANCE MATERIALS OPERATIONS, LLC, Foley, AL: NPDES ALP000408 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

ASCEND PERFORMANCE MATERIALS OPERATIONS, LLC, held by Ascend Performance Materials Operations, LLC, holds NPDES permit ALP000408. EPA’s file records it issued July 31, 2017 and expiring July 31, 2022. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 15, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

What the register holds for ASCEND PERFORMANCE MATERIALS OPERATIONS, LLC: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Foley, Alabama, and 11 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES ALP000408.

Identity

Facility as filedASCEND PERFORMANCE MATERIALS OPERATIONS, LLC
Permittee as filedAscend Performance Materials Operations, LLC
NPDES IDALP000408
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual industrial user permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedJuly 31, 2017
Expiration dateJuly 31, 2022
AddressFoley, AL 36535
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download).

Effluent limits and exceedances

An effluent exceedance is a discharge monitoring report value over the permit’s numeric limit (EPA’s violation code E90). A violation of any kind also counts a report not filed. Each row is EPA’s own count for that pollutant.

Pollutant or measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant400
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit200
pH200
Oil & Grease200
Lead, total recoverable200
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C100
Solids, total suspended100
Zinc, total recoverable100
Dimethyl phthalate100
Di[2-ethylhexyl] phthalate [DEHP]100
Di-n-butyl phthalate100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES ALP000408.

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES limits and effluent violations files (ECHO download); up to 60 rows shown, most exceedances first.

Inspections, violations and enforcement

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES ALP000408.

Velarion’s copy of EPA’s ICIS-NPDES files does not include the inspections, formal enforcement actions and informal enforcement actions files, so this page shows none of them. EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO lists this permit’s inspections, enforcement actions and penalties.

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES violation, inspection and enforcement files (ECHO download); up to 50 rows of each shown, newest first.

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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded September 15, 2026.