Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES TXR05FX31

PLM STEEL TUBES, Laredo, TX: NPDES TXR05FX31 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
14Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

PLM STEEL TUBES, held by Plm Steel Tubes, LLC, holds NPDES permit TXR05FX31. EPA’s file records it issued December 9, 2022 and expiring August 13, 2026. 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.

What the register holds for PLM STEEL TUBES: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Laredo, Texas, and 14 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES TXR05FX31.

Identity

Facility as filed	PLM STEEL TUBES
Permittee as filed	Plm Steel Tubes, LLC
NPDES ID	TXR05FX31
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Coverage under a general permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Program	Industrial stormwater
Issued	December 9, 2022
Expiration date	August 13, 2026
Address	Laredo, TX 78045
Subwatershed	Zacata Creek-Rio Grande (HUC 130800020702)

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

14Pollutants on file
14Under a numeric limit
0With a violation of any kind
0With an effluent exceedance

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 measure	Limits	Violations, any kind	Effluent exceedances	Latest exceedance	Largest exceedance, as filed
Zinc, total [as Zn]	4	0	0
Solids, total suspended	2	0	0
Arsenic, total [as As]	2	0	0
Barium, total [as Ba]	2	0	0
Cadmium, total [as Cd]	2	0	0
Chromium, total [as Cr]	2	0	0
Copper, total [as Cu]	2	0	0
Lead, total [as Pb]	2	0	0
Manganese, total [as Mn]	2	0	0
Nickel, total [as Ni]	2	0	0
Silver, total [as Ag]	2	0	0
Aluminum, total [as Al]	2	0	0
Selenium, total [as Se]	2	0	0
Mercury, total [as Hg]	2	0	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES TXR05FX31.

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

0Single-event violations

EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES TXR05FX31.

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.