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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES WYG720468

COWBOY STATE MINE, (Unknown City), WY: NPDES WYG720468 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

COWBOY STATE MINE, held by Wyoming Rare (USA) Inc., holds NPDES permit WYG720468. EPA’s file records it issued June 25, 2025 and expiring June 24, 2026. 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 filedCOWBOY STATE MINE
Permittee as filedWyoming Rare (USA) Inc.
NPDES IDWYG720468
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
IssuedJune 25, 2025
Expiration dateJune 24, 2026
Issuing agencyWyoming Department of Environmental Quality
Address(Unknown City), WY
SubwatershedCanyon Creek-Sybille Creek (HUC 101800110204)

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 suspended141820
pH121560
Flow121560
Duration6780
Solids, total dissolved6780

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES WYG720468.

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 WYG720468.

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.