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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES CAC397990

SPACE SYSTEMS/ LORAL, INC., Palo Alto, CA: NPDES CAC397990 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

SPACE SYSTEMS/ LORAL, INC., held by Ford Motor Company, holds NPDES permit CAC397990. EPA’s file records it issued August 25, 2014 and expiring December 31, 2018. 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 SPACE SYSTEMS/ LORAL, INC.: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Palo Alto, California. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES CAC397990.

Identity

Facility as filedSPACE SYSTEMS/ LORAL, INC.
Permittee as filedFord Motor Company
NPDES IDCAC397990
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedAugust 25, 2014
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2018
Issuing agencyCA Waterboards
AddressPalo Alto, CA 94303
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedPermanente Creek-Frontal San Francisco Bay Estuaries (HUC 180500030406)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

EPA’s limits and effluent violation files hold no pollutant row for NPDES CAC397990.

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 CAC397990.

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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Nearby on the register

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