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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTR000099

CHS INC - LAUREL REFINERY, Laurel, MT: NPDES MTR000099 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

CHS INC - LAUREL REFINERY, held by CHS INC, holds NPDES permit MTR000099, which discharges to Yellowstone River. EPA’s file records it issued May 29, 2018 and expiring January 31, 2023. 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.

Identity

Facility as filedCHS INC - LAUREL REFINERY
Permittee as filedCHS INC
NPDES IDMTR000099
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
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedMay 29, 2018
Expiration dateJanuary 31, 2023
AddressLaurel, MT 59044
Receiving waterYELLOWSTONE RIVER
SubwatershedYellowstone River-Indian Creek (HUC 100700040602)

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
Solids, total suspended030
Flow rate020
Oxygen demand, chem. [low level] [COD]020
Oil and grease, hexane extr method020

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES MTR000099.

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

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
August 16, 2024WW Storm Water Non-Construction - Failure to develop any or adequate SWPPP/SWMPST6
August 16, 2024Monitoring Violations - Improper Analysis or Lab ErrorST6
August 16, 2024Monitoring Violations - Invalid/Unrepresentative SampleST6
August 16, 2024Reporting Violations - Improper/ Incorrect ReportingST6

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.