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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES KS0091481

HALLMARK CARDS INC., Lawrence, KS: NPDES KS0091481 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

HALLMARK CARDS INC., held by HALLMARK CARDS, INC., holds NPDES permit KS0091481, which discharges to Kansas R (1027010421). EPA’s file records it issued December 1, 2016 and expiring November 30, 2021. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (September 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedHALLMARK CARDS INC.
Permittee as filedHALLMARK CARDS, INC.
NPDES IDKS0091481
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeIndividual permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedDecember 1, 2016
Expiration dateNovember 30, 2021
Issuing agencyKansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE)
AddressLawrence, KS 66044
Receiving waterKansas R (1027010421)
SubwatershedBaldwin Creek-Kansas River (HUC 102701040503)

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
pH0660
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant0490
Oxidants, total residual0460
Temperature, water deg. centigrade0450
Phosphorus, total [as P]040

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES KS0091481.

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 KS0091481.

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 14, 2026.