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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MTR101640

PPL MONTANA - EFFLUENT HOLDING PONDS 3 & 4, Colstrip, MT: NPDES MTR101640 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

PPL MONTANA - EFFLUENT HOLDING PONDS 3 & 4, held by PPL MONTANA LLC, holds NPDES permit MTR101640. EPA’s file records it issued December 23, 2004 and expiring December 31, 2006. 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 PPL MONTANA - EFFLUENT HOLDING PONDS 3 & 4: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Colstrip, Montana. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES MTR101640.

Identity

Facility as filedPPL MONTANA - EFFLUENT HOLDING PONDS 3 & 4
Permittee as filedPPL MONTANA LLC
NPDES IDMTR101640
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
ProgramConstruction stormwater
IssuedDecember 23, 2004
Expiration dateDecember 31, 2006
Issuing agencyMONTANA DEQ
AddressColstrip, MT 59323
SubwatershedCow Creek (HUC 101000030601)

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 MTR101640.

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 MTR101640.

Velarion’s copy of EPA’s ICIS-NPDES files does not yet 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.