Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES AL0080071

CRANE CENTRAL MINE, Flat Rock, AL: NPDES AL0080071 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
13Pollutants under a numeric limit
3Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

CRANE CENTRAL MINE, held by Justice Coal of Alabama, LLC, holds NPDES permit AL0080071. EPA’s file records it issued October 22, 2015 and expiring October 31, 2020. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (October 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filed	CRANE CENTRAL MINE
Permittee as filed	Justice Coal of Alabama, LLC
NPDES ID	AL0080071
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	October 22, 2015
Expiration date	October 31, 2020
Address	Flat Rock, AL 35966
Subwatershed	Long Creek-Miller Creek (HUC 060300010202)
NAICS	212114 – Surface Coal Mining
SIC	1221 – Bituminous Coal And Lignite - Surface

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.

Effluent limits and exceedances

13Pollutants on file
13Under a numeric limit
13With a violation of any kind
3With 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
Manganese, total [as Mn]	24	38	2	August 31, 2016	92% over the limit
Toxicity [chronic], Ceriodaphnia dubia	6	14	1	June 30, 2017	2,147,483,650% over the limit
Toxicity [chronic], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]	6	14	1	June 30, 2017	2,147,483,650% over the limit
pH	96	84	0
Specific conductance	72	56	0
Sulfate [as S]	72	56	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	72	48	0
Iron, total [as Fe]	36	42	0
Solids, total suspended	24	36	0
Solids, total dissolved [TDS]	12	34	0
Toxicity [acute], Ceriodaphnia dubia	6	13	0
Toxicity [acute], Pimephales promelas [Fathead Minnow]	6	13	0
Solids, settleable	24	6	0

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 AL0080071.

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 October 14, 2026.

This public-records page covers NPDES permit AL0080071 for CRANE CENTRAL MINE in Flat Rock, AL, held by Justice Coal of Alabama, LLC, as it stood in EPA's permit file when loaded on October 14, 2026. The permit is listed as administratively continued, with a Minor Discharger class, 13 pollutants on file, 13 pollutants under a numeric limit, and 3 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.