Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES ALP000068

THOMPSON BISHOP SPARKS STATE DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY, Auburn, AL: NPDES ALP000068 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

Administratively continuedPermit status
MinorDischarger class
13Pollutants under a numeric limit
0Pollutants with an effluent exceedance

THOMPSON BISHOP SPARKS STATE DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY, held by Thompson Bishop Sparks State Diagnostic Laboratory, holds NPDES permit ALP000068. EPA’s file records it issued August 22, 2016 and expiring August 31, 2021. 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 THOMPSON BISHOP SPARKS STATE DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY: its NPDES ID, its permit type and status, its dates, its address in Auburn, Alabama, and 13 pollutants under a numeric limit. EPA’s effluent violation file and its single-event violation file hold no violation for NPDES ALP000068.

Identity

Facility as filed	THOMPSON BISHOP SPARKS STATE DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY
Permittee as filed	Thompson Bishop Sparks State Diagnostic Laboratory
NPDES ID	ALP000068
Permit status	Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit type	Individual industrial user permit
Discharger class	Minor discharger
Facility type	Not a publicly owned treatment works
Issued	August 22, 2016
Expiration date	August 31, 2021
Address	Auburn, AL 36831

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

Effluent limits and exceedances

13Pollutants on file
13Under 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
Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit	2	0	0
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C	2	0	0
pH	2	0	0
Solids, total suspended	2	0	0
Oil & Grease	2	0	0
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]	2	0	0
Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N]	2	0	0
Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N]	2	0	0
Phosphorus, total [as P]	2	0	0
Chloride [as Cl]	2	0	0
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant	2	0	0
Chemical oxygen demand [COD]	2	0	0
Flow rate	1	0	0

EPA’s effluent violation file records no exceedance of a numeric limit for NPDES ALP000068.

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 ALP000068.

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.

This public-records page covers NPDES discharge permit ALP000068, held by Thompson Bishop Sparks State Diagnostic Laboratory in Auburn, Alabama, which is administratively continued and classed as a Minor Discharger. The page lists 13 pollutants under a numeric limit and 0 pollutants with an effluent exceedance.