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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES NMR050011

TA54 MAINTENANCE FACILITY WEST, Los Alamos, NM: NPDES NMR050011 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

TA54 MAINTENANCE FACILITY WEST, held by Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos, holds NPDES permit NMR050011. EPA’s file records it issued May 2, 2018 and expiring June 3, 2020. 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 filedTA54 MAINTENANCE FACILITY WEST
Permittee as filedNewport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos
NPDES IDNMR050011
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeFederal facility
ProgramIndustrial stormwater
IssuedMay 2, 2018
Expiration dateJune 3, 2020
Issuing agencyU.S. EPA
AddressLos Alamos, NM 87544
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedCanada Ancha-Rio Grande (HUC 130202010203)

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
Aluminum, total [as Al]120
Cyanide, total [as CN]110
pH010
Aluminum, total recoverable100
Alpha, total100
Polychlorinated biphenyls [PCBs]100

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES NMR050011.

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 NMR050011.

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.